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How to use madman in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Madman means a man who is insane or mentally disturbed. Example: “He ran up and down the street screaming profanities like a madman.”

More sentences with madman

  • He ran up and down the street screaming profanities like a madman.From the entry profanity
  • The madman obtained a soapbox which he stood on at the corner of Broadway and Wall street, to shout out his prophecy of the end of the world.From the entry soapbox
  • Perhaps this is not the act of a madman (or madchild) after all.1994, Murray Krantz, Child Development: Risk and Opportunity, →ISBN, page 297. From the entry madchild
  • So who's this madman launching a new car from a brand-new company?1981, Financial Mail, page 1338. From the entry zazzy
  • I had heard the madman telling his disciples the Nazrulian poem “aj srishtisukher ullashe.”1966, Z. A. Tofayell, History of Kushtia. From the entry Nazrulian
  • While seeking out Iron Man, she had her first superfight, little realizing her foe was the armored madman Dr.2008, Scholastic Avengers Encyclopedia - Part 1, →ISBN. From the entry superfight
  • Then came the sidekick, a jet black madman dancing, and almost cooning out of the shadows that cancelled him.2006, A. Khaulid, The Great Book of Fire, Damon Hunter,, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry coon
  • I booked like a madman for the Master’s Comp.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry carrel
  • He might be assimilated to a madman, but the honourable Gentleman himself was an abhorrer, and an abhorrer could not reason.1966, Robert Gourlay, General Introduction to Statistical Account of Upper Canada, page 1. From the entry abhorrer
  • Losing his head entirely, the young collier raved like a madman, what with pain and fear of hospital.1914, D. H. Lawrence, “A Sick Collier”, in The Prussian Officer and Other Stories. From the entry lose one's head
  • Hoffman's view is that all terrorists have goals, and that it is dangerous to see them only as madmen bent on destruction.2001 October 29, Nicholas Lemann, “What Terrorists Want”, in The New Yorker, volume 77. From the entry madmen
  • So, anyway, Jeff and I were whipping along, two totally stoned organic machines, riding a steel horse and grinning ear-to-ear like madmen.2000, Lori Varosh, Jim Hallas, I Am the War, page 23. From the entry steel horse
  • I feel uprooted from the vital connections to Salley, to home, stranded with only the mountain and my fellow madmen as company.1998, Greg Child, Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas, page 185. From the entry expedition
  • A genuine first-hand religious experience like this is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman.1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature…. From the entry heterodoxy
  • I felt an unusual detachment, an almost agnostic attitude toward the contest of giants that would turn New Orleans's Superdome into a vast asylum for madmen, madwomen and even madchildren.2012, H. Brandt Ayers, The 2013 BCS National Championship, →ISBN. From the entry madchild

Meaning of madman

  1. noun A man who is insane or mentally disturbed.
  2. noun A person who makes risky and questionable decisions.
  3. noun A daredevil.

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Questions about madman in a sentence

How do you use madman in a sentence?
Madman is used as a noun. For example: “He ran up and down the street screaming profanities like a madman.”
What is a short sentence with madman?
“I booked like a madman for the Master’s Comp.”
What does madman mean?
Madman means a man who is insane or mentally disturbed.

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