Brakes were screaming hectically out in the middle of the road.

A small spicy Greek sausage,' passed hectically through his mind.

Mostly, it meant that city life could continue hectically, not chaotically.

Manhattan's four theaters for new modern dance will all be hectically busy this weekend.

The investment bankers have been hectically trying to get a piece of the big fees the deal is likely to generate.

I laughed, a little hectically, I admit, and said that it was probably just as well.

"I want this process to calm down and proceed at a reasonable pace, less hectically," he added.

This "Carmen" bounced along hectically from start to finish.

When you are going to legislate, you should do it less hectically."

His eyes seemed all pupil, black-ringed and enormous, hectically shiny.

Their parents are forced to accept that, on top of hectically busy schedules, they must work together to supervise each other's children.

The gunslinger had talked hectically, feverishly, to fill his silence.

Her living are hectically alive, her dead recur in furious memory.

The demands on their time have risen hectically.

Shaking, she turned her back on the sea, stared hectically into her darkened bedroom.

With Christmas only three weeks away their days were hectically filled, making presents, hanging up decorations and rehearsing.

Hectically she scrabbled for something constructive to say.

She started to run hectically down the hill, still clutching the watch and shouting that she hated him.

The hectically excited scarecrows scatter, boding trouble in the third act.

Although hectically busy running his film empire, he is a fiercely devoted, if sometimes indulgent, single parent.

The tempos were hectically fast or portentously slow, and the performance never quite cohered.

The plastic gums were hectically coloured a sunset pink.

Her apron was mussed and her hair coming loose, as if she had been hectically busy.

Most of the obsolete processes were invented in the early decades of photography, a hectically experimental period.

She began grappling hectically with the latches.