FEBRILE in a Sentence

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1. Awaiting the mysterious announcement, there was a febrile excitement in the crowd.

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 Meanings and Examples of FEBRILE
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febrile
 a.  feverish; intense emotion or activity
Classic Sentence:
1  A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
Example Sentence:
1  Awaiting the mysterious announcement, there was a febrile excitement in the crowd.