6 sentences with 'frenzy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word frenzy and other words derived from it.
• « Athens went into a shipbuilding frenzy, ending up with hundreds of warships called triremes, rowed by those free Athenians too poor to afford armour and weapons and serve as hoplites, but who now had the opportunity to help directly in battle as sailors. »
• « In short, it was a "perfect storm" of technology and ideology that enabled and justified Europe's global feeding frenzy called "imperialism". »
• « Recognising the huge gap between the Soviet Union's industrial capacity and that of the West, Stalin also introduced the Five-Year Plans, which set sky-high production quotas for heavy industry. Although these quotas were never actually met and thousands died in the frenzy of industrial growth, the Five-Year Plans (three of which took place before the outbreak of World War II) managed on the whole to achieve near parity with the Western powers in terms of industrial capacity. »
• « Indeed, along with the colonial gentry, ordinary colonists in the colonies also participated in the frenzy of consumer spending on goods from Britain. Tea, for example, came to be regarded as the drink of the Empire, with or without the fashionable tea sets. »
• « In the 1800s, a frenzy of entrepreneurship and invention produced many new products and machines. The republic seemed a laboratory of innovation and technological advances seemed limitless. »