HECTIC in a Sentence

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Example sentences for HECTIC, such as:
1. They are busy preparing for a hectic day's activity on Saturday.
2. Just after last night he resigned, following a hectic board meeting.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of HECTIC
hectic
 a.  marked by intense agitation or emotion
Classic Sentence:
1  That evening she did not merely consent to play cribbage with Kennicott; she urged him to play; and she worked up a hectic interest in land-deals and Sam Clark.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  The night telegraph-operator at the railroad station was the most melodramatic figure in town: awake at three in the morning, alone in a room hectic with clatter of the telegraph key.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  But the scanty wisdom of man, on entering into an affair which looks well at first, cannot discern the poison that is hidden in it, as I have said above of hectic fevers.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII — CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY, AN...
Example Sentence:
1  Just after last night he resigned, following a hectic board meeting.
2  They are busy preparing for a hectic day's activity on Saturday.