How to Use maddening in a Sentence

maddening

adjective

• He has a maddening habit of interrupting other people.
• She shows a maddening inability to control her children.
• Of the top four teams that seem to have the best chance to win the title, the Tigers might be the most maddening.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 12 Mar. 2018
• This, to me, is the most maddening aspect of the Trump era.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
• The maddening part was that the show was better than all of this.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
• And the maddening thing about it is that the White House is allowing all this.
  — Liz Cheney, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2024
• That may explain why the fine print of the Italian plan can be so maddening.
  — Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2019
• The video matches the weighty glory of the song with a maddening music video that couldn't have been easy to film.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2018
• With her new memoir, the pop star tries to close a long and maddening chapter of her life.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2023
• The Aztecs have a maddening habit of starting games slowly, and Seiko has a habit of sparking them to life.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
• The strikeouts were maddening and Schmidt and Black both see it as the root of the Rockies’ offensive woes.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2024
• What made this even more maddening is that Okerblom had been through it before.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
• The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is both wonderful and maddening in the same breath.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• Not knowing why or how, or where his body was, was maddening.
  — Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2020
• The online comments shown here are dead-on and maddening.
  — Mick Lasalle, idahostatesman, 28 Apr. 2017
• It’s a maddening prospect, but long Covid may not be a single syndrome at all.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• The sheer sprawl of us, the maddening sanity of our suburbs and gridded cities: prose.
  — Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
• In fact, my trip had been planned for several months, well before the start of the maddening lockdown.
  — David Culver, CNN, 12 May 2022
• Coughing can be maddening, from that first tickle in your throat to dealing with the stuff that might come up with each heave.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 7 Apr. 2018
• The Mavericks are 12-5 on the road, a fact that probably makes their home struggles all the more maddening to fans.
  — Dallas News, 4 Jan. 2020
• Some of the pre-snap penalties were downright maddening.
  — Dan Woike, latimes.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• There’s no such thing as a bad Sam Shepard play, just plays that are more maddening than others.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• No one knows when the pandemic will be over or when things will be back to normal, which can be maddening.
  — Louise Matsakis, Wired, 13 Mar. 2020
• The perfect gift for the harried commuter in your life: Waiting for the Orange Line to show up can be maddening.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2019
• The most maddening part as a spectator — besides the fact that the game dragged on and on and on — was the ridiculous nature of the technical fouls.
  — oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2020
• Traffic was maddening, as people did not heed any warnings to avoid the areas near the course.
  — Shakeia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2023
• It’s been maddening to be working on this alongside this growth of banning all over the country.
  — Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
• The book is full of the kind of speculation and assumption that can be maddening.
  — The Economist, 8 Nov. 2019
• For years, that has been the maddening, constant request from my 7-year-old daughter.
  — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
• But what’s maddening and puzzling is the league’s final position on the play.
  — oregonlive, 8 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024