frantic

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• keep: Affairs, rivalries, & enmities keep the pace frantic, along with dropped lines, missed cues, and lost contact lenses.
• get: Back to this weekend, let's hope it says safe - sometimes it gets a bit frantic out there, doesn't it?

Modifies a noun

• scramble: In the frantic scramble for new routes that ensued, nearly every buttress received attention.
• pace: All Manx players suffered from the frantic pace on playing on the show courts for the first time.
• finale: There was more to follow in a frantic finale to the half with skipper Young doubling his side's tally in injury time.
• dash: However, the Floral Dance succeeds in having the last say as the music makes its last frantic dash to the finishing line.
• craze: The book describes the frantic craze for jigsaw puzzles during the 1920s online jigsaw puzzle and 1930s.
• rush: To pass this procession would be death, a frantic blind rush down an opposing lane.

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: Getting increasingly frantic, she asked the parlor maid, Sarah Cox.
• nearly: Out with him on a tour of some of the branch monasteries I was nearly frantic to get my stinking robes washed.
• almost: This plus the continued, almost frantic pace of reform in the NHS is the cause of the crises now emerging across the NHS.
• rather: Some of the later levels do get rather frantic.
• pretty: Sunday, July 18, 2004 [ permalink ] Hogwarts here I come Well it's been a pretty frantic few weeks.
• sometimes: From catching Roach, Bream and Chub from a sluggish Bristol Avon to the sometimes frantic sport encountered on the modern-day commercial waters.

Infinitive complement

find: Frantic to find her, Lily makes friends with two young American soldiers, who promise to help her.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Our God is at work in the world; therefore we need not become frantic.
• grow: Guarding its silken sack from the flames, it grew frantic.
• get: Some of the later levels do get rather frantic.
• go: Richard had a little whistle to imitate Spotted Owlet, and the birds went frantic; giving us fantastic views.

Preposition: with

worry: They were put in contact with Green in June 1983, by which time they were frantic with worry.