Sentence examples similar to take frantic from inspiring English sources

As I sat in the audience of thousands, surrounded by celebrities and "normal folks" like myself, watching heads nod and jaws drop, seeing individuals taking frantic notes and others with their eyes glued to the stage, I realized that we as people are truly, desperately hungry for meaning and purpose, and we have entered an era where systems and structures no longer benefit us.

Take somewhat frantic run up block, to see if any sign of them.

Is it possible that … he took you?" Frantic calls confirmed Nerby's fears.

Jalen Rose took a frantic handoff from Maurice Taylor as the seconds ticked closer to another Knicks defeat.

It took a frantic search to find someone in Wisconsin with a trailer able to accommodate a giraffe.

Donna Costello joins Ms. Hayes and Ms. Hollis for some fretful twitching, a sensation taken to frantic heights in another solo that is less a dance than a seizure.

I don't really want to talk about that side of things," she says, taking a frantic swig from an empty mug of peppermint tea.

Shortly after 5pm on Saturday ­afternoon, Hamed, an Iranian asylum seeker in the ­Netherlands, took a frantic call from a friend in Tehran.

The Police Department filed administrative charges last week against the supervisor of a 911 operator who took a frantic call from four teenage boys in a sinking rowboat in the icy waters off City Island in the Bronx, the police said yesterday.

Oddly, the flunkies left the president and me alone in a marbled reception room.Ilham was plausible, but, for an authoritarian leader whose regime is accused of all manner of nastiness, he made a basic error by lavishly cracking his knuckles throughout.Afterwards I took a frantic call from one of the flunkies: could he borrow my tape recorder?

There was the time, for instance, that Mrs. Printz took a frantic call from Noël Coward, recalled her husband, Bob Printz, in a telephone interview on Friday: "Mary," Mr. Coward cried, "Marlene has just had a bottle of Scotch and is finished with it, and it's Sunday; I don't have any more.