How to Use rabid in a Sentence

rabid

adjective
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  • Her husband is a rabid baseball fan.
  • The last thing Justin Bieber wants is for all his rabid fans to see that 40% of the tickets are not going on sale to them.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The three schools are all within 12 miles of each other and have rabid fan bases that can rival any in the state.
    — Dallas News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The ensuing backlash wasn’t just the result of a rabid fan base.
    — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Our fan base had been rabid through the fall, everything the program went through, tragedy...
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The craziest was Macedonia, where rabid fans spit and threw coins on the court.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Four of the cases involved exposure to bats, with the fifth stemming from a bite from a rabid dog.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Everyone ends up at the store, where a rabid mob is ready to snatch all of those half-price deals and free waffle irons.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
  • All but the most rabid fans would admit that the food in the old days was not uniformly high in quality.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • On Friday, the Warriors will be welcomed back by the Patriots and their rabid fans with the season on the line.
    — Mike Perrin | , al, 3 May 2023
  • The Cliburn draws rabid fans from around the world as well as teachers, conductors and artist managers to check out the next crop of up-and-comers.
    — Dallas News, 31 May 2022
  • Others, like Warrior Nun, can also find rabid fans but just not enough of them to stay alive.
    — WIRED, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The shows are a dumpster fire of rivalries and resentments with a rabid fan base.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Some are led by chefs who happen to be cyclists, others by guides who are rabid food-lovers.
    — Jancee Dunn, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The combination of this engine and the six-speed tranny gives the SSR some rabid bite to go along with an already hairy bark . . .
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Trader Joe’s has rabid fans and so does Amazon and Costco.
    — Steve Strauss, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Such passages have so far been missing from the rabid press coverage of Spare.
    — Time, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The night ended with Buffett thanking his rabid fanbase and first responders for their help over the last year and a half.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In it, Travolta plays a rabid film fan who stalks his favorite action hero and destroys the star’s life.
    — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Ray Liotta is tracking down a rabid bear in one of his final film roles.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • With this story, there’s so many rabid fans and internet sleuths.
    — Sasha Urban, Variety, 5 May 2022
  • Vampire’s Kiss is a tour de force of rabid solipsism, but even those who admire it feel the need to add an asterisk.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
  • Anyone seen as going against him risks losing the support—and provoking the wrath—of his rabid fan base.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
  • There is just nothing really like that rabid teen idol, boy band buzz.
    — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2022
  • That worry on top of all the other worries (climate change, rabid bats, world wars, drowning, is this brain fog?
    — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Without their humans to protect them, the cats rush to find their way home before they’re eaten by the forest full of rabid beasts on their tails.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But in times like these, a rabid fox spreading terror in the citadel of US democracy is the kind of Washington metaphor that writes itself.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
  • According to sources, Alvarez is a rabid fan of the franchise and casually pitched a take to Scott many years ago.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Today, with six million rabid members and 286 million posts, 4chan is the crucible of everything edgy and sticky on the Web.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2023
  • In markets where the fan base is rabid, team officials listen.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022

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