How to Use madness in a Sentence
madness
noun- It was the height of madness for him to drive at such high speeds!
- Her friends told her the idea was pure madness, but she went through with it anyway.
- He suffered a series of tragedies that nearly drove him to madness.
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The method to his madness comes through in the mixtapes.
— Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 6 Oct. 2023 -
Of course, there is some method to the madness, but not much.
— Jais Tollette, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022 -
Here is a film that is touched with the madness of love.
— Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2022 -
There’s a method to the madness of Love & Death‘s release.
— Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2023 -
What are the lessons for CEOs that come out of this March madness?
— David Meyer, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2022 -
With that said, there’s a certain method to the madness.
— Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2023 -
Edert then led the madness on the court and took it to the table.
— Dan Gelston, ajc, 26 Mar. 2022 -
West was not only at the center of the storm, but the creator of the madness.
— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2022 -
That, plus a video of the madness from earlier; the camp took up the whole field.
— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2024 -
Therein lies the root of the madness that drives the Jackson Hole One Fly.
— Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 25 Sep. 2024 -
The air is charged with melodrama and even a touch of madness.
— Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023 -
Here's where the madness sets in…are the potatoes boiling over, is the turkey dry?
— Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022 -
Noise is the sound of madness itself, the din within our minds.
— Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024 -
There was a method to this madness for Sitake last season.
— Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2022 -
And the darkest part of the dark, the maddest part of the madness is the relentless gambling involved.
— Truman Capote, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2024 -
It’s time for Republicans to be a brick wall to stop the madness.
— WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022 -
Still, the sheer madness of the X4 M Competition is a thrill in its own right.
— Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 13 May 2022 -
Puerto Rico as a whole feels like a safe haven from the madness of overnight fame.
— Frances Solá-Santiago, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024 -
The madness of mid-March arrived, and some Spurs fans grew listless.
— Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2022 -
Barreiro fired off a shot in the madness, hitting no one.
— Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024 -
The smallest tweak in tone would land this nonstop madness back in the midnight-movie aisle.
— A.a. Dowd, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023 -
The freaks and me may as well have been wired in a direct feed from the Marshalls, so pure and raw is the group’s transfer of madness.
— Matt Thompson, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2024 -
For tips on how to survive the madness, check out this handy guide from The Washington Post.
— Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 23 Dec. 2022 -
When traveling, as in life, there should be a method to any madness.
— Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 21 June 2023 -
Now the House and President Biden should endorse the end to the clock-changing madness.
— Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022 -
But Wareham said there’s a method to his white-rice-and-chicken madness.
— Lawrence Specker | , al, 8 Apr. 2023 -
His statement may sound extreme, but there is method in the madness.
— Peter Lyon, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
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