noun
1An aggressive and competitive group attack on prey by a number of sharks or piranhas.
- ‘This seemed to trigger the sharks into a feeding frenzy.’
- ‘I have seen sharks in a feeding frenzy, turtles fighting and shoals of fish so large that they blocked out the light from the surface, but this spectacle beat them all.’
- ‘Years later, I found myself swimming backwards through the water while Stuart induced a feeding frenzy of Caribbean reef sharks by free-baiting the water with tuna meat along my path.’
- ‘He tells us how he literally swam with sharks during a feeding frenzy.’
- ‘Each herbivore entrapment probably triggered a feeding frenzy that resulted in up to a dozen predators being trapped as well, says Van Valkenburgh.’
- ‘Showing the press an underwater videotape, Jeng said that in periods of calm water, they observed thousands of crabs swarm out in a feeding frenzy on the sea floor over an area of a few square meters.’
- ‘But to start cutting would have the same effect as a rupture, it would immediately trigger a feeding frenzy in the other scavengers, and the smells of blood and meat might draw more of them.’
- ‘In September, the crevices in the wall are crammed with hundreds of mating pairs of velvet swimming crabs, exciting swarms of fish into a feeding frenzy.’
- 1.1An episode of frantic competition or rivalry for something.
- ‘The media feeding frenzy will, indeed, be massive.’
- ‘Such an arrest would not normally arouse the media feeding frenzy that ensued.’
- ‘He knows a coordinated feeding frenzy of epic proportions has just begun.’
- ‘There was no feeding frenzy, no gnashing of teeth.’
- ‘Recent shark attacks in Florida have sparked the now customary feeding frenzy in the media.’
Pronunciation
Frenzy definition is - a temporary madness. How to use frenzy in a sentence.
Read the sentence.In a feeding frenzy, the pigeons descended upon the breadcrumbs that the kindly old man on the park bench continued to toss.Which is a correct analysis of the sentence?The prepositional phrase in a feeding frenzy acts as an gerund phrase.The prepositional phrase upon the. By the frenzy of his fingers on the typewriter it must be a tale of great excitement. For several minutes this wild frenzy lasted before he said an intelligible word. In a frenzy of fear and desperation he cast the old woman from him and tore violently at the rope.
Sentence with the word feeding frenzy
Microsoft and IBM are in a feeding frenzy.
Even the shark from 'Jaws' wouldn't stand a chance in a feeding frenzy.
The made in America comeback could eventually fuel a feeding frenzy among businesses looking to corner the market.
Dude, a few friends and I were blazing one night and once we all had the munchies, we shot through to Mcd's and had a feeding frenzy!!
At lunch today, there was a feeding frenzy going on in the cafeteria.
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