How to Use madly in a Sentence
madly
adverb- She fell madly in love with him.
- He told her that he loved her madly.
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Shaina is going to be madly in love with me at the end of it.
— Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 21 Feb. 2022 -
The wind was so strong the dupatta flapped madly in the air.
— Mira Sethi, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2022 -
What about falling madly in love with the man of your dreams?
— Moni Basu, CNN, 21 Mar. 2018 -
At the age of 40, Sarlak is still madly in love with his sport.
— Don Riddell, CNN, 1 July 2021 -
The pair fall madly in love before hatching a plan to break out of the joint.
— Todd Spangler, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024 -
No wonder the world was so ready to fall madly in love with them.
— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2022 -
Fell madly in love with a man who taught her to love Dante and Keats, beauty and truth.
— Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2018 -
As the others take off madly down the mountain, there is no doubt.
— Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 27 June 2018 -
In other words, the show could stand to ease on down more and vibrate madly a bit less.
— Peter Marks, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023 -
David and Sheila David and Sheila were still madly in love, though they were stuck across the world from each other.
— Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023 -
The lyrics changed; the rhythm changed; the chords and the melody went from being quick and choppy to deeply madly infectious.
— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 June 2023 -
Then dropped a line back in only to see the rod dip madly, then line begin to play out.
— oregonlive, 11 July 2023 -
Barbara Palvin and Dylan Sprouse are madly in love and not afraid to show it.
— Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2023 -
But this show takes those pieces and scrambles them madly.
— Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 May 2020 -
Twas a dark and sad and clammy day; A lark caws daftly, madly.
— Pat Myers, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022 -
Like a lot of things, the Axios dialect emerged from a good idea that spun madly out of control.
— Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2022 -
Long story short: We got married in 2018 and are madly in love.
— refinery29.com, 6 Feb. 2020 -
Below them are the people in the middle, paddling madly to stay in place.
— Madeline Leung Coleman, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2020 -
The film is set in Berlin in 1942, when Hilde falls madly in love with Hans and is joyfully pregnant.
— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 1 Mar. 2024 -
Presley, known as the King, madly loved his mother, Gladys.
— New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021 -
It’s no surprise to any of us that Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin are madly in love.
— Gianluca Russo, Teen Vogue, 10 Nov. 2018 -
The sky turned orange, the flames licked toward them on the ridge, and his crew started running madly for their lives.
— Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023 -
At the core of the show, there were two people who fell madly in love who had just gotten together.
— Jean Bentley, SPIN, 4 Mar. 2022 -
Ishihara plays one of the new hires, who's followed onto the ship by a young woman who's madly in love with him.
— Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 30 May 2018 -
See more sweet photos of the madly in love couple below.
— Essence, 22 Mar. 2021 -
Allie is madly in love with taking on the home remodel... and him, of course.
— Sarah Bray, House Beautiful, 26 June 2014 -
Hundreds of pirates swung on hundreds of nooses, their feet dancing madly in the air.
— Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024 -
Kruger followed each perfect dive with a slapstick plunge, squeezing his eyes shut, or wearing clown makeup, or madly pumping his legs in midair.
— David O. Stewart, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
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