FEVER in a Sentence

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During the three weeks of her new marriage, she had been in a fever to see his account books and find out just how money matters stood.

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 Meanings and Examples of FEVER
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fever
 n.  abnormally high body temperature;a condition of heightened activity or excitement
Classic Sentence: (163 in 11 pages)
1  But the next time came and went, and the result was nothing--nothing except that the fever possessing her rose higher and hotter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Public feeling was at fever heat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  They were sick eyes, fever bright, and dark baggy circles were beneath them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  And to make matters worse, Wade was ill with a sore throat and a raging fever and there was neither doctor nor medicine for him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  There was no fever in his hands now, nor in hers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  Scarlett passed over this tactless confidence and skillfully led Pitty from one friend to another but all the while she was in a fever of impatience to bring the conversation around to Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  During the three weeks of her new marriage, she had been in a fever to see his account books and find out just how money matters stood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  No fever leaped from his hands to hers and in his hands her heart hushed to happy quietness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
9  It was enough that she was with him and he was holding her hands and smiling, completely friendly, without strain or fever.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
10  She squared her shoulders for the load and with a calmness she was far from feeling, kissed his wet cheek without fever or longing or passion, only with cool gentleness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
11  In her own room again, she was seized with a sudden fever of activity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
12  She found Olaf abed, restless from a slight fever, and Bea flushed and dizzy but trying to keep up her work.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  Now, at this time it was that my poor pagan companion, and fast bosom-friend, Queequeg, was seized with a fever, which brought him nigh to his endless end.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
14  Months afterward we got a card from Otto, saying that Jake had been down with mountain fever, but now they were both working in the Yankee Girl Mine, and were doing well.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
15  It was there he caught the fever which held him back on the eve of his departure for Greece and of which he lay ill so long in Naples.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
2  The rain had kept me indoors all weekend and I was beginning to get cabin fever.
3  Evans had rheumatic fever, missed school and fell behind.
4  I have a bit of a fever.
5  One of the boys in the class had a fever and he soon infected other children.
6  Feed a cold and starve a fever.
7  Michael was given a complete going-over and then treated for glandular fever.
8  The doctor's advice is to let the fever run its course.
9  This will relieve the heat of the fever.
10  During her high fever,the patient babbled of going back home.
11  Signs of the illness include fever, nausea and vomiting.
12  He was down with fever, and the doctor advised him to lie up for several days.
13  The nation was at fever pitch in the days leading up to the election.
14  Soccer fever has been sweeping the nation as they prepare for the World Cup.
15  The child had such a fever he nearly died.