How to Use febrile in a Sentence

febrile

adjective
  • How his time in charge goes now will dictate the mood among the fanbase, which is febrile at the turn of events.
    — Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Certain factors can increase your risk of having more than one febrile seizure.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But in such febrile times, one rooster crowing was likely to set off all theothers in the village.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • To avoid febrile seizures, the key is to give my daughter Tylenol at the earliest sign of a fever.
    — Zak Jason, Wired, 12 Feb. 2022
  • But the previous chapter remains the source of much febrile debate.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • The mid-1990s was a time of febrile change in the arts in South Korea.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Kids with flu also can develop brain inflammation as well as febrile and non-febrile seizures.
    — Dr. Kristina Bryant, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Trump cannot help himself, tweeting insults at the screen with a febrile desperation.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Even for those children who have previously had a febrile seizure, there's no good preventive medicine.
    — Ada Fenick, M.d., Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Each of those diseases can be transmitted from cats to humans through scratches; each can cause a febrile illness and enlarged lymph nodes.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Kenneth Whyte brings to life these pioneering days of febrile dramas, dirty tricks, wild stunts and pure genius.
    — Les Hinton, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • The febrile creativity of a crowd united in anger helps imbue objects and images with meaning.
    — The Economist, 17 June 2020
  • Both are compendiums of artful dodging and febrile rhetoric, which is what corporate lawyers produce for a living.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Cerebral, with an often febrile intensity, Parker is the rare actress who can run both very hot and quite cool.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • A week prior my daughter had been really sick and landed in the emergency room after having a febrile seizure.
    — Cullen Daly, Glamour, 10 May 2025
  • As Ossoff has moved from underdog to slight favorite, the attacks on him have grown increasingly febrile.
    — Michelle Goldberg, Slate Magazine, 19 June 2017
  • The art of guidance is always a delicate dance between realism and optimism, but a misstep in these febrile times can lead to a fall.
    — John D. Stoll, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2019
  • According to the Mayo Clinic, a febrile seizure is a convulsion in a child that is caused by a fever and occurs in young, healthy kids.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • The febrile politics of Brexit have raised the prospect — albeit, still remote — of the latter two also breaking away.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Instead the media was caught up in a febrile narrative about Muslims that was just beginning to build momentum.
    — Mohammad Ali, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The repetitions have become increasingly febrile, with some tweets blaming the vaccines for tens of millions of deaths.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
  • Still, Onana’s less-than-stellar European record with the club did little to settle nerves amid a febrile atmosphere.
    — Carl Anka, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Several times, as another musician plays, Monk stands center stage and spins in place, in febrile oneness with the music.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • For Pan, the greater concern is the impact of increasingly febrile and threatening protests aimed at public servants.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
  • In this febrile moment in our politics, some on the left are rationalizing a military coup in the name of saving the republic.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • But the deep traumas and divisions of that era persist, wounds that are arguably festering all the more in the current febrile moment in global politics.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Three prime ministers have governed the Southeast Asian country since a febrile election with a record turnout was fought four years ago on the key issue of corruption.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Cox's murder at the hands of a right-wing extremist came in the days leading up to the 2016 Brexit vote, an issue that has helped stoke divisions and a sometimes febrile mood.
    — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2021
  • That was the febrile atmosphere on July 4th, when British marines abseiled onto the deck of the Grace 1 in Gibraltarian waters.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Last March, the Swansons had to come up with $8,000 to cover their share of hospital bills after their baby daughter was hospitalized with a febrile seizure.
    — Reed Abelson, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023

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