Hectic

//ˈhɛktɪk//

"Hectic" in a Sentence (19 examples)

I don't work now and I lead a less hectic life.

He leads a hectic life.

Tom had a hectic week.

It's hectic at my place. How about we go back to your place and watch the game there?

Tom used his secluded cabin in the woods as a getaway from his hectic life as a company director.

Today is hectic.

It's been so hectic around here lately I don't know whether I'm Arthur or Martha.

This city is as hectic as Manhattan.

Things got a bit hectic.

After a hectic few days at work, Tom is looking forward to a change of pace.

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The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds

Phoenix:It must have been too hectic that night to clean up.

hectic fever

Ann had a hectic cough, and many unfavourable prognostics […].

She never complained, but sleep and appetite fled from her, a slow fever preyed on her veins, her colour was hectic, and she often wept in secret […].

[…] Do it England, / For like the Hecticke in my blood he rages, / And thou muſt cure me: […]

The poor Franciscan made no reply: a hectic of a moment pass’d across his cheek, but could not tarry […]

For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills […]

an angry hectic in each cheek, a fierce flirt of her fan, and two or three short sniffs that betokened mischief

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