How to Use mad in a Sentence

mad

adjective

• That guy makes me so mad!
• What are you so mad about?
• She's mad for a cute boy in her class.
• If you keep teasing that dog, you'll make him mad.
• He's mad keen on sailing.
• The band was mad, so the kids from the Lampoon came up with a backup plan.
  — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2023
• The substance is dog waste—and lots of people are mad about it.
  — Kelly Conaboy, The Atlantic, 26 July 2023
• Maybe there’ll be something to get mad about next time.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
• In the mad rush to the lifeboats, hundreds of companies were stranded on deck.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
• My mom was mad at my dad for taking me at three years old.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Mar. 2023
• The people who get mad about it are people who just don’t want to think about it.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
• Desjardins whipped off his cap to show off his full head of hair, to mad applause.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
• Her on-field teammates went ballistic in a mad rush up the field.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
• Is Taupin afraid of saying the wrong thing and making Elton mad?
  — Allison Stewart, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• So please don’t be like the guy who swung at me last night and had the cops in store arrest him, and just try not to be mad at us.
  — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
• There may be no one in Hollywood who won’t be mad at this list.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• There are two main reasons for the mad stampede off the plane – and both are terrible.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• Two years later, Godzilla rears its head again from the ocean depths off Japan, mad as hell.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• This isn't the first time Starbucks has made its customers frothing mad over cost hikes to its menu.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 10 May 2023
• The Break is being spread by the four Tantas, once benevolent rulers who’ve gone mad from it.
  — George Yang, Variety, 23 Jan. 2023
• Trump people are mad at me for saying that nobody tried to kill him for all four years.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
• That is not the same as actually making one of them mad.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• Compared to the mad days of their gestation there are no mysteries of shock and awe, no strut and spunk.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2024
• All alone in the Manhattan high-rise, the burglar, Nemo (that’s Nobody, in Latin), begins to go mad.
  — Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• My mother was mad, my girlfriend never spoke to me again.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• The Lions, mad at the world after their controversial loss to the Cowboys, will end that shot.
  — The Arizona Republic, 1 Jan. 2024
• Her presence causes the Tantas to go mad and wage war against their people.
  — Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2023
• McBride’s goal came on a deflection in a mad scramble in front of the six-yard box after a throw-in from the left side by Osiramah Iyamah.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023
• In one of the maddest storylines of March, Monson’s team did not go quietly in what was supposed to be his final week on the job.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024
• Comedians mess up or intentionally break the rules, and After Midnight host Taylor Tomlinson kind of gets mad at them, but mostly everyone, including me, is laughing.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024