How to Use madwoman in a Sentence

madwoman

noun
Definition of madwomannext
  • She is a madwoman on the dance floor.
  • No one would turn around if the madwoman of Chaillot came in.
    — Bill Savage, Chicago Reader, 13 June 2018
  • Add to that the almost wicked tone of the poem; its haunting last sentence could be followed by a madwoman’s cry or cackle.
    — Shara McCallum, New York Times, 30 June 2017
  • After Biden announced his pick, Trump called Harris nasty, angry and a madwoman.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020
  • And there is an all-knowing, imprisoned madwoman who sends out paper birds.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Bapu refers to herself as a madwoman or a lunatic more than a dozen times in her journals, but only sometimes with despair.
    — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
  • She is alternately hailed as a moral genius and dismissed as a madwoman.
    — Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 12 July 2019
  • The novel opens with the crime, so its readability (helped by Sam Taylor’s cool translation) comes from the back story: the transformation of Louise from good fairy to madwoman in the attic.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • But Léa wonders if her sister is a penitent, a madwoman or a monster, and her husband is terrified for the safety of their daughters.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2017
  • But no one takes Maud seriously—just as no one believed the local madwoman ( Cara Kelly ) who haunted their village back in 1949, and who seemed to know how and why—and with whom—Sukey had vanished.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Of course, this professor is also the type of person who compares her department to the male anatomy and mixes dietary supplements like a madwoman.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Ajo Kawir, a Javanese teenager, witnesses the brutal rape of a local madwoman by two policemen, and from that moment on is rendered impotent.
    — The Economist, 13 July 2017
  • Cotillard’s madwoman contortions cannot pass for innocent adolescent pique, and this exposes the film’s fakery.
    — Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2017

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