How to Use hectic in a Sentence

hectic

adjective
  • We both had hectic days at work.
  • She maintains a hectic schedule as a journalist and mother.
  • It’s been a hectic week, and a grim one.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • So far, though, his new base had been just as hectic as the old one.
    — ProPublica, 9 Apr. 2021
  • For some, the answer is about the hectic pace of life.
    — Khosro Isfahani, Washington Post, 19 May 2026
  • After that is where the draft gets hectic.
    — Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • There is a wide gap between that and a hectic week at work.
    — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Her go-to lunch during these hectic weeks?
    — Cheyenne Buckingham, SELF, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Things get a little hectic around here.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Before that, though, things were a bit hectic on the home front.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 May 2024
  • Five years after high school, she is still caught up in her hectic home life.
    — Tiana Reid, The New York Review of Books, 20 June 2020
  • Stop waiting for work to get less hectic or for that next big project to wrap up.
    — Andrew Deutscher, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • It’s been a hectic past few days for Austin Slater.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The dogs, too, kept running off amid the very hectic shoot and had to be chased down.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 24 Dec. 2023
  • They are urged to come in the afternoons when the pace is less hectic.
    — Peggy O’Hare, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2021
  • What is the one thing that helps make this crazy, hectic lifestyle fun at the end of the day?
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Smooth and relentless on the field and hectic off it.
    — Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • In our house, things were hectic, with enough kids and dogs to keep my mother more than busy.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The last three years have been hectic with supply chains and a hobby boom.
    — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In a hectic life on the road, Crawford found peace astride a horse.
    — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Kids are heading back to school, and life is getting hectic at home.
    — Bethany Thayer, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • To make to-dos less hectic, opt for a gadget that can get two jobs done at the same time.
    — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Nick Cannon‘s hectic life is coming to the small screen.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 13 May 2026
  • Not quite as hectic, but the masses kept coming.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 15 Apr. 2026
  • So as the hectic pace of the holidays slows, take some time to plant your bulbs.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • It’s been a hectic couple of weeks for the Celtics’ first-round pick.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 13 July 2025
  • Work gets busy and life gets hectic, there isn’t enough time to spend together.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2024
  • After she’s born, things will get even more hectic with my treatments.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But for many surgeons, the past year-and-a-half has passed at that same hectic, rapid-fire pace.
    — Kaitlin Clark, Allure, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The news comes amid a hectic week for those in the lyric business -- for better or for worse.
    — Tatiana Cirisano, Billboard, 19 June 2019

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