How to Use insanity in a Sentence

insanity

noun

• She was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
• His friends thought his decision to quit his job was pure insanity.
• Please, no more violence. It's time to stop this insanity.
• Was the goal of the docu to open people’s eyes to this insanity?
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
• Of all the sequences, which one pushed you and your team to the brink of insanity?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
• Jimenez, 20 at the time of the killings, entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
• The business drove him into debt and to the brink of insanity.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• But insanity is the name of the game in college sports today.
  — oregonlive, 15 July 2022
• No wonder the Bay Area grew tired of this sort of insanity.
  — Fox News, 9 June 2022
• Without any of the baggage of Trump, without any of the insanity of 2020.
  — NBC News, 13 Mar. 2022
• He was found innocent by reason of insanity in the rest of the killings.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 6 June 2022
• Nobody in Lapvona had gone mad in a century, but the room still held the charge of dread and insanity.
  — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Yes, at some point, there will be an end to this insanity and horror.
  — Tim Hutchinson, Bob Kerrey, Ben Nelson, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022
• The pair pleaded not guilty on the grounds of insanity, a plea that was rejected by the jury.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
• For business, 2022 has been a dizzying year, and the fourth quarter has only upped the ante on the insanity.
  — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
• The case was retried in 2006, when Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 26 May 2024
• Maryland’s version of the insanity plea — for the 2020 killing.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022
• Brown entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity in June.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 20 Sep. 2022
• It`s just insanity to say all the children can`t breathe.
  — NBC News, 20 Aug. 2021
• Crystal said, when all Crystal had seen of her was the insanity?
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 June 2021
• The rest of the trailer shows Sheila on what might be the brink of insanity, constantly snapping at people and bathing in a tub of cookies.
  — Averi Kremposky, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• Miller has pleaded not guilty on the basis of insanity.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
• The whole ride has been absolute insanity, but the JOY is still riding.
  — Jade Gomez, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
• The lawyer had asked jurors to find Ian Anselmo not guilty by reason of insanity and to write on verdict forms that John was guilty.
  — Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 23 July 2024
• Ehsan entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 6 May 2024
• Brown is also seeking to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
  — Wayne Baker, The Enquirer, 3 June 2022
• The central issue is going to be his claim of not guilty by reason of insanity.
  — Ray Sanchez and Andi Babineau, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
• In the last three months, the most notorious conflict of our time has reached new levels of insanity.
  — Amir Sommer, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2024
• This man sees through the insanity of life in the Mafia, but the movie sinks us into the egomaniacal pettiness of it all.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Sep. 2021
• Mental illness is not the same as insanity under the law.
  — Colleen Slevin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024