FANATICAL in a Sentence

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23 example sentences for FANATICAL, such as:

1. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe.
2. She fanatically cleaned house all April.
3. His enthusiasm for aerobics was almost fanatical.
4. Therefore, a local fanatic would begin with them.
5. A deep, settled, fanatic delirium was in his eyes.

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 Meanings and Examples of FANATICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fanatical
 a.  crazy; frenetic
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  I answer that there was a great deal which was unreasoning and fanatical in the hatred which he bore my heir.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
2  He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
3  Every matron, old or young, in Atlanta nursed and did it with an enthusiasm that seemed to Scarlett little short of fanatic.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  There was a deep, almost fanatic glow in her eyes that for a moment lit up her plain little face and made it beautiful.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Not till she inspected the rest-room did she again become a fanatic.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  A deep, settled, fanatic delirium was in his eyes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
7  Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
8  I knew the whole scribbling rabble, the party rabble, the fanatic rabble.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXI
9  The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously venerable radiance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
10  She felt by intuition the flame of the opposing passions which burned with the blood in the veins of the young fanatic.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 55 CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY
11  She was as well acquainted with it now as a mistress is with that of the lover of her heart; and yet Milady at the same time detested and despised this weak fanatic.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
12  Therefore, a local fanatic would begin with them.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
13  He was wrinkled and black, with scant gray and tufted hair; his voice and hands shook as with palsy; but on his face lay the intense rapt look of the religious fanatic.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIII
14  She fanatically cleaned house all April.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
15  He was stoical, serious, austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
Example Sentence:
1  His enthusiasm for aerobics was almost fanatical.
2  Top of the range Scotches attract a fanatical following among whisky buffs.
3  The gas attack on Tokyo's subway shocked Japan and shed light on the fanatical Aum Shinrikyo group.
4  What the papers report is that he was an extreme right-wing fanatic with psychological delusions.
5  I am not a religious fanatic but I am a Christian.
6  Religious fanatics have formed an unholy alliance with right wing groups.