Sentence examples for then frantic from inspiring English sources

Just then, frantic birds, wheeling and swooping and rising to wheel and dive again, could mean only one thing: albacore.

The rhythms and moods of this harmonically rich work, at first peacefully lyrical and then frantic, were mirrored by Mr. Rosner's images.

Slow at first, then frantic.

Plunging into Aaron's journal that night at their motel, they found the frightened, then anguished, then frantic chronicle of a desperately ill child--their child, their beloved son--who did not know the source of his excruciating pain and who could not comprehend why his counselors kept responding to his pleas for help with mockery, accusations of faking and increasingly pitiless punishment.

His Italian friend began trying to contact him — at first with texts, then with frantic calls.

They often miss critical information, then send frantic e-mails asking why they have not been kept informed.

Then their frantic dash to safety, their young minds yet to process what they have just witnessed.

For the first thirty years after the founding of the People's Republic, Chinese leaders told their people which dreams to pursue: first socialism, then the frantic rush to "get rich first".

All, then, is frantic: both the pace at which yesterday's must-have device must be replaced by today's supposedly vast improvement, and the insane tempo at which everything is intended to be used.

When you have Sterling Hayden with wild eyes talking about the fluoridation of children's ice cream and then a frantic Peter Sellers right next to him, fighting panic, it's so much more funny".

Trudging endlessly around the suburbs until I got wind of a story, then a frantic drive across town on my Vespa to get to the crime scene first, to see the body before it was moved.