Voorbeelden van frantically

• A couple of men waved white handkerchief frantically above their heads as they walked gingerly to where other forms were lying, deadly still.

• I look frantically from dark-skinned, blank face to blank face- a stranger in a strange, impassive land.

• I counted the bobbing heads and arms of ten people swimming frantically.

• The poor man frantically tried to bargain for his reinstatement, admitting that he had been not altogether sober and apologising for making a resignation he did not want.

• The elder reacts violently to every action which he construes as an attack upon the dignity of his office and frantically invokes the support of the ancestors.

• Competition at equilibrium looks like nothing so much as a game of musical chairs: there are four seats with five candidates frantically competing for one of the seats.

• As a result, the theatre has a historic debt which it will take several years of frantically hard work to pay off.

• Many dairy farmers are way over in the first two quarters, frantically have to adjust, and may have to pay the super-levy.