Sentence examples for did frantic from inspiring English sources

My whispered pleas for silence failed, as did frantic jabs at the mute button.

How then, does frantic, careless generalizing and stereotyping in any way contradict the horrific suffering they engendered?

But if perpetrators of despicable acts, who claim to be Muslim, believe some crisis requires them to act unquestioningly and viciously; how does frantic generalizing, inciting hatred, and lashing out at innocent Muslims in return, contradict horrific suffering?

Don't make frantic efforts to adopt new fashions and mannerisms to 'look' young, because it makes you appear pitiable.

You find your opposite number, grab him (or her), and dunk, regardless of whether the ball is anywhere in the vicinity; neck-holding is especially popular, involving, as it does, much frantic splashing on the part of the drowner, and the whole exercise looks weirdly like a lifesaving class, except that the motive is reversed.

Moreover, between 1970 and 1977, even after Lowell had divorced Hardwick, married Blackwood and had a son by his new wife, Lowell compounded the injury he had done by frantic shuffling between England and America, unable to decide which woman he wanted and needed.

Business is still done with frantic hand signals.

You do a frantic Google search to no avail, and your captors take you to a cornfield and beat you with a baseball bat.

She runs down the stairs so fast it makes my heart do a frantic Irish jig in my chest.

Whether it's doing the frantic purse fumble when your phone is not in its right pocket or just forgetting it altogether, you've experienced the heart-stopping horror of what it's like without your device -- and it's not pretty.

I did the customary frantic rifling through the backpack, but soon I recognised that I had left the notebook on the plane.