How to Use feverish in a Sentence

feverish

adjective
  • She was feeling tired and feverish.
  • He had a feverish appearance.
  • His bride-to-be is feverish, but seems to be on the mend.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The mood was loose and feverish, the crowd varied: black and white, straight and gay, young and old.
    — David Amsden, Smithsonian, 31 July 2017
  • The Arctic is feverish and on fire — at least parts of it are.
    — Daria Litvinova, Fox News, 25 June 2020
  • The Arctic is feverish and on fire — at least parts of it are.
    — Daria Litvinova, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2020
  • The Arctic is feverish and on fire — at least parts of it are.
    — Daria Litvinova, Fox News, 25 June 2020
  • The new season is here, and the pace again promises to be feverish.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • In the next room, a man lay slumped in his bed, a sheen of sweat coating his feverish face.
    — Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 28 June 2020
  • Avoid in the morning when the beignet frenzy is most feverish.
    — Paul Oswell, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The music is feverish, a hook-y mix of ’90s rock and country twang.
    — Eryn Loeb, Longreads, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Today, the duo is premiering the feverish video for the track.
    — Henry Youtt, Billboard, 13 July 2018
  • The room convulsed with the feverish music from the gramophone.
    — Charlotte Allen, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Among them were Bill and Gloria Weed, who have been feverish for days.
    — Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The first shot of Pfizer’s vaccine left him a bit feverish, tired and with swollen lymph nodes in his neck.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Yet even the feverish rush to buy – a trend that’s supporting those high prices – has cooled a bit this year.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 25 July 2024
  • And acquisitions have reached a feverish pace in the past two to three years.
    — Markian Hawryluk, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Other fans plan to sleep on cruise ships or camp out in the desert amid a feverish rush for rooms in Doha.
    — Jon Gambrell, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Other fans plan to sleep on cruise ships or camp out in the desert amid a feverish rush for rooms in Doha.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Our first day on the trail (and our second and third) was an exorcism of sorts, a feverish purge.
    — Steven Potter, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2024
  • When the detainees arrived on June 2, at least two were feverish.
    — Hannah Dreier, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Each year at this time, there’s a feverish rush to the farmers market to grab sour cherries.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • On the last night on the ship, Johnson started feeling feverish.
    — Renata Geraldo, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2022
  • Edge-of-your-seat ‘90s action fun with an electric cast and feverish pace.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2022
  • People were fatigued and feverish, with dry coughs and headaches.
    — Daniel Wrapp, Science, 31 Dec. 2020
  • The road of every pop singer’s feverish onstage dance routine leads back to her.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
  • The first 16 pages are feverish: M, a young mother, is traveling alone in France.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The promise of spoiler reveals only added to the feverish hype.
    — Lindsey Bahr, ajc, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Her skin is always slightly feverish, unlike his own, which feels lukewarm to him, only half alive.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The early parts of their adventure possess the feverish quality of new and illicit experiences.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2025

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