A frantic attempt to rescue him ended in failure.

They stick a needle into his arm and pump air into his chest in a frantic attempt to revive him.

The company has been caught out by its frantic attempt to grow.

That was followed by a sudden interruption and the recording showed the pilots making a frantic attempt to control the plane.

The lone sailor made frantic attempts to save the boat, but had to abandon ship.

That leads back to the idea of concentrating on the business of generating news and giving up on the frantic chase for eyeballs at any cost.

His descriptions convey a frantic chase: they switch safe houses under the cover of night and rain, tuning into radio updates to hear of once loyal henchmen turning themselves in.

And thus begins the frantic chase.

You're in a frantic rush to get ready, everyone's shouting at you to hurry up, and you know there's something you really mustn't forget.

In today's frantic rush, we need to reconsider this need to fill every available space.

I want to enjoy myself with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say.

Though the action grows increasingly frantic, it never stops being a laugh.

An increasingly frantic search took place, but her body was never found.

People from every nationality and background stretched across the counters in increasingly frantic attempts to get the attention of besieged assistants.

My increasingly frantic pretence of writing on my hand produced, after some very puzzled looks, a pen and a piece of paper, delivered very courteously.

These promises are being sustained by massive, and increasingly frantic, manipulation of the international fiat monetary system.