How to Use fever pitch in a Sentence

fever pitch

noun
Definition of fever pitchnext
  • Demand for the new car soon reached fever pitch.
  • I worked myself up to a fever pitch of enthusiasm.
  • New allegations brought interest in the scandal to a fever pitch.
  • By the 1980s, though, pothunting had hit a fever pitch.
    — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 8 July 2021
  • The buzz around Mel Tucker reached a fever pitch this week.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Things reached a fever pitch when Drake stayed at the hotel last month.
    — Liam Stack, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Back and forth the voices went, at fever pitch, a tug-of-war on a rope that is about to snap.
    — ELLE, 24 June 2022
  • Tempers may flare as the stress of the season reaches a fever pitch.
    — Elise Hannum, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022
  • As the team nears the end of the 2021 season, questions about the coach’s future have reached a fever pitch.
    — Amanda Kaschube, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The downing of the plane came when tensions between Iran and the U.S. had reached a fever pitch.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 31 Dec. 2020
  • This year, however, the event’s reach has hit a fever pitch.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Lucky for him, the demand for proteas has reached fever pitch.
    — Sunset Magazine, 30 Dec. 2021
  • But as one feud ends, the teen drama in Barcelona is reaching a fever pitch.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
  • There's a fever pitch… [and] ugliness that comes with that.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • But these criticisms have reached a fever pitch over the past two years.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The live webcams from explore.org have increased the interest in the bears to a fever pitch.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2022
  • The score was tied with 13 minutes left to play and that’s when play reached a fever pitch worthy of a Monon Bell.
    — Ryan Gregory, Indianapolis Star, 16 Nov. 2019
  • For more than a year, crypto mania has been at a fever pitch.
    — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2022
  • As his dread and fear reach a fever pitch, we are uneasily forced to choose sides.
    — Jenny Offill, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The threats, which had already begun pouring in, reached a fever pitch.
    — ABC News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The tour shattered commercial records and brought the buzz around the singer-songwriter to a fever pitch.
    — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Anything written or said about the Princess of Wales at that point was at fever pitch and front page news.
    — Rachel Burchfield, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
  • During the pandemic, that process reached a fever pitch.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Opposition to the plan had by then reached a fever pitch.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2021
  • But when lines are crossed and her trust is betrayed, tensions reach a fever pitch.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2024
  • It’s really been at a fever pitch since the beginning of March, the minute the TMZ story dropped.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
  • Over the weekend, though, tensions between Lamar and Drake reached a fever pitch.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 7 May 2024
  • So things were really hitting that fever pitch as the day went on.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 May 2022
  • Pumpkin spice is in the air and on TikTok, the hygge aesthetic is building to a fever pitch.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Miami always buzzes, but the excitement reaches fever pitch with the arrival of Art Basel in December.
    — Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024

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