How to Use madman in a Sentence

madman

noun

• Jack and Rose came from the mind of a madman (James Cameron).
  — Anne T. Donahue, Cosmopolitan, 11 Dec. 2017
• So be grateful John Bolton is gone, but no less afraid of the madman at the wheel.
  — Adam Weinstein, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2019
• The freedom to send one’s kids to school without fear of a madman armed with an AR-15.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
• This makes his predictions sound like the stuff of a madman or a prophet.
  — David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
• Malgieri’s Quixote is both fool and hero, madman and sage.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 13 June 2017
• No one should be surprised that Jones can be a madman, though.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
• Crepe Bar Jeff Kraus is a madman in the best possible way.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 6 Aug. 2019
• Snow mazes are fun—as long as you’re not being chased through one by a madman with an axe to grind.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Oct. 2018
• There was a madman in our family, a man who lost his mind.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 12 July 2022
• The madman got 74 million votes a few months ago, the second-most ever.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2021
• Legrand Forget about running around the house like a madman, turning off all the lights.
  — Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2020
• There's a madman that put 11 million lives at risk and gladly did so.
  — NBC News, 17 Sep. 2017
• Agent 007 and a Russian beauty foil a madman in a submarine, who is out to nuke the world.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• All the gore of dozens of people killed and wounded by a madman with a high-powered rifle.
  — David E. Carpenter, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
• Gibson will play the professor, while Sean Penn will play the madman.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 12 July 2017
• The Steelers' James Harrison is a 39-year-old who works out like a madman.
  — Alysha Tsuji, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2017
• The mass suicide of hundreds of people to a madman has to be an exception to that rule, no?
  — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021
• From one movie madman to another… thanks for your kind note.
  — Eric King, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• To reason with these would be a waste of words, just as much as would be the attempt to persuade a madman out of his delusion.
  — Dan Schlenoff, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2020
• Affleck, 47, has been working like a madman to get his career back on track.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
• But just as the meeting concludes, Konga, the village madman, bursts in.
  — New York Times, 8 Mar. 2021
• The film’s key scene is his murder, in which Omar appears as a blood-thirsty madman who wields the fatal sword himself.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Nov. 2017
• Not when a madman and his wife suddenly show up, sporting what look like masks made of skin, trying to kill them.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2020
• Nuclear arms built to ensure peace cloud our world and may, at the touch of some madman’s finger, destroy us.
  — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• What all parties can at least celebrate is that Trump looks less and less like a despotic madman.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 27 Apr. 2017
• At the same time, look for any opportunity to de-escalate, maybe, against the odds, to talk the madman holding the baby off the ledge.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
• The Lunatic by Anthony C. Winkler is a morbid trip into the mind of a madman.
  — Roxane Gay, ELLE, 23 Mar. 2022
• Nicole Odom struggled to wrap her head around the horror: Her middle child, so joyous and sweet, slain and butchered by a madman who dumped the body parts in a Brooklyn park.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• This is not the action of a madman, but a decisive act of fascist terrorism.
  — Jordan Anderson, Teen Vogue, 12 Feb. 2018
• The madman runs through 15 absolute beaters in a quick 15 minutes.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 27 June 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024