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How to use mad in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, adverb, verb

Mad means insane; crazy; mentally deranged. Example: “You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?”

Examples of mad by meaning

adjectiveInsane; crazy; mentally deranged.

  • You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?
  • He's got this mad idea that he's irresistible to women.
  • Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.1920 October, Agatha Christie, “The Arrest”, in The Mysterious Affair at Styles […], New York, N.Y.; London: Grosset & Dunlap, published...

adjectiveAngry; annoyed.

  • Are you mad at me?
  • She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

adjectiveUsed litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.

  • Wow, you really made this pie from scratch? I'm not mad at it.
  • I'm not mad at this little house, though.2019, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, season 13, episode 3
  • But I mean, once the flow was there, nobody was mad at it.2019, “'Thank U' Text: Ariana Grande's Collaborators Break Down The Artist's Latest Album”, in NPR

adjectiveBizarre; incredible.

  • It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired.

adjectiveWildly confused or excited.

  • to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred
  • 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...

adjectiveExtremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.

  • Aren't you just mad for that red dress?
  • My wife is soccer-mad.
  • She's mad on the baking these days.

adjectiveAbnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.

  • a mad dog

adverbIntensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.

  • He was driving mad slow.
  • It's mad hot today.
  • He seems mad keen on her.

More sentences with mad

  • Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad.From the entry grate
  • If you go out in the desert for long without water, the thirst can drive you mad.From the entry thirst
  • The Nutty Professor franchise explores the light comedic potential of a mad scientist.From the entry mad scientist
  • Dr Strangelove explores the darker comedic potential of a mad scientist.From the entry mad scientist
  • Having no idea what that means, I am internetting like mad.From the entry internet
  • Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!From the entry drip
  • Only mad dogs and Englishmen would go out in this heat!From the entry mad dogs and Englishmen
  • The mad scientist was a staple character in many horror films.From the entry staple character
  • Let's go mad and have a bottle of wine with our lunch.From the entry go mad
  • Here's fifty pounds in case you see anything nice to buy, but don't go mad.From the entry go mad
  • The old man is on the bridge, mad as a hornet.From the entry mad as a hornet
  • We poked a stick into the hornets' nest and ran like mad.From the entry like mad
  • She said that about you behind your back? Don't get mad, get even!From the entry don't get mad, get even
  • He is very mad about all the pranks.From the entry about
  • When I told him the truth, he got real mad.From the entry real
  • There was a mad stampede to the fire exits.From the entry fire exit
  • The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.From the entry trickle
  • He was hopping mad when he came home and discovered that she had bought a new car without consulting him.From the entry hopping mad
  • He's just mad because I haven't cashed in yet.From the entry cash in
  • Acme Inc was our best customer, but they're hopping mad now. They're bouncing off the walls over there.From the entry bounce off the walls
  • She was mad at their comments.From the entry at
  • Mom's gone real mad, she has.From the entry have

Meaning of mad

  1. adjective Insane; crazy; mentally deranged.
  2. adjective Angry; annoyed.
  3. adjective Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.

Full definition of mad

Questions about mad in a sentence

How do you use mad in a sentence?
Mad is used as an adjective, adverb and verb. For example: “You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?”
What is a short sentence with mad?
“a mad dog”
What does mad mean?
Mad means insane; crazy; mentally deranged.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mad (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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