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How to use crazy in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, adverb, noun

Crazy means of unsound mind; insane; demented. Example: “His ideas were both frightening and crazy.”

Examples of crazy by meaning

adjectiveOf unsound mind; insane; demented.

  • His ideas were both frightening and crazy.

adjectiveOut of control.

  • When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.

adjectiveVery excited or enthusiastic.

  • He went crazy when he won.
  • The craziest, most extraordinary banger race on the planet: 10,000+ miles from Prague to Siberia.2020 January 8, Nikhil Krishnan, “Six of the world's most thrilling road trips for 2020”, in The Daily Telegraph

adjectiveIn love; experiencing romantic feelings.

  • Why is she so crazy about him?

adjectiveVery unexpected; wildly surprising.

  • The game had a crazy ending.
  • It's serious dressing up, the maddest entertainment, craziest art, and at the end there's the burning of a huge effigy, stuffed with pyrotechnics 287.2010 May 27, Judy Astley, Blowing It: a brilliantly funny, mad-cap novel guaranteed to make you laugh from bestselling author Judy Astley...
  • But crazier things have happened.2018 August 7, “Save us from another kooky California breakup plan”, in The Los Angeles Times

adverbVery, extremely.

  • That trick was crazy good.
  • I'm crazy tired after today's shift at work.
  • It's crazy stupid here, Kim.2002, Gina Riley, Jane Turner, That's Unusual: Scripts from Kath and Kim, Series 2, page 67

nounAn insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.

  • It's our night, you crazies!2011, “Pilot”, in Allen Gregory, season 1, episode 1

nounEccentric behaviour; lunacy; craziness.

  • Then again, her whole evening was full of crazy, and she didn't know what else to do.2013, Douglas Schwartz, Checkered Scissors, page 211

More sentences with crazy

  • There's just this nervous mannerism that Bob has with his hands, and it drives me crazy.From the entry this
  • There's a massive iceberg of increasingly crazy fanfics out there based around those two characters.From the entry iceberg
  • You're going to think I'm plum crazy for this, but I want to adopt all seven kittens.From the entry plum
  • Between you and me, I think the boss is crazy. Let's keep this between ourselves.From the entry between
  • We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.From the entry screen
  • I don't know what the world is coming to! Everything seems so crazy these days.From the entry come to
  • She stayed late, working like crazy to get the project done before the deadline.From the entry like crazy
  • Forget the Great Wall - Beijing's best-kept secret is its crazy taxi drivers.From the entry best-kept secret
  • We were all going at it like crazy, trying to get the job finished before the deadline.From the entry go at it
  • Watch out those crazy skinheads! They made someone bite the curb the other night.From the entry bite the curb
  • She seriously wants to swim across the English Channel? Man, that's crazy talk.From the entry crazy talk
  • He's acting crazy because he's on crack right now.From the entry on
  • My sister is always driving me crazy.From the entry sister
  • The editors went a little crazy making so many cuts.From the entry cut
  • Crazy things like that only happen in dreams.From the entry dream
  • She was known for throwing the craziest parties in college.From the entry throw
  • I went stone crazy after she left.From the entry stone
  • Yo, that's crazy, but I don't remember asking.From the entry yo
  • The crazy lady made a scene in the grocery store.From the entry scene
  • Many of his crazy ideas remained unchallenged.From the entry unchallenged
  • The teasing itch from the mosquito bite drove her crazy.From the entry teasing
  • He just got glomped by a crazy fangirl.From the entry glomped
  • Pocket watching a high schooler is crazy.From the entry pocket watch
  • He irons his clothes how?! That's crazy! Well, I guess it takes all kinds to make a world.From the entry it takes all kinds to make a world
  • There are a lot of crazy people out there.From the entry out there
  • Between you and me, I think the boss is crazy.From the entry between you and me
  • Is he off his meds or something? He's acting crazy.From the entry off one's meds

Meaning of crazy

  1. adjective Of unsound mind; insane; demented.
  2. adjective Out of control.
  3. adjective Very excited or enthusiastic.

Full definition of crazy

Questions about crazy in a sentence

How do you use crazy in a sentence?
Crazy is used as an adjective, adverb and noun. For example: “His ideas were both frightening and crazy.”
What is a short sentence with crazy?
“But crazier things have happened.”
What does crazy mean?
Crazy means of unsound mind; insane; demented.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crazy (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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