How to Use fever pitch in a Sentence

fever pitch

noun
  • Demand for the new car soon reached fever pitch.
  • I worked myself up to a fever pitch of enthusiasm.
  • New allegations brought interest in the scandal to a fever pitch.
  • Now it’s reached a fever pitch.
    — Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 23 Dec. 2025
  • But in the past few weeks, the meme has reached a fever pitch.
    — James Factora, Them., 15 Aug. 2025
  • The action mounts to a fever pitch.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • With so much to worry about, parental stress has reached a fever pitch.
    — Juli Fraga, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The race for tech supremacy is reaching a fever pitch.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026
  • For more than a year, crypto mania has been at a fever pitch.
    — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Rumors began swirling and reached a fever pitch at the town hall.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Lucky for him, the demand for proteas has reached fever pitch.
    — Sunset Magazine, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Things reached a fever pitch when Drake stayed at the hotel last month.
    — Liam Stack, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023
  • But these criticisms have reached a fever pitch over the past two years.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 10 Mar. 2021
  • But when lines are crossed and her trust is betrayed, tensions reach a fever pitch.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2024
  • As his dread and fear reach a fever pitch, we are uneasily forced to choose sides.
    — Jenny Offill, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Back and forth the voices went, at fever pitch, a tug-of-war on a rope that is about to snap.
    — ELLE, 24 June 2022
  • So things were really hitting that fever pitch as the day went on.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 May 2022
  • Tempers may flare as the stress of the season reaches a fever pitch.
    — Elise Hannum, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022
  • As we near the finale, tensions are mounting to a fever pitch.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025
  • During the week of the game, preparation will reach a fever pitch.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The love affair between fashion and sport reached a fever pitch this year.
    — Lily Templeton, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
  • But the pressures of fame and the fever pitch of fandom can exact its own toll.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The threats, which had already begun pouring in, reached a fever pitch.
    — ABC News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • But as one feud ends, the teen drama in Barcelona is reaching a fever pitch.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
  • For the last decade or so, a global resource war has been working its way to a fever pitch.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The noise in the market around Larkin has been at a sustained fever pitch for weeks now.
    — Max Bultman, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • After that, the teams traded baskets the rest of the way as the home crowd reached fever pitch.
    — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2018
  • The news comes as the backlash against Ryan has increased to a fever pitch in the last year.
    — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The decision to demo the changes comes as pushback has reached a fever pitch.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The latest trade chatter has focused on Miller and reached a fever pitch.
    — Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025

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