How to Use maniac in a Sentence

maniac

noun

• He's a complete maniac when he's playing football.
• Archie hops on the call and calls the Black Hood a maniac, but that doesn’t do much good — the BH hangs up.
  — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 14 Dec. 2017
• Come to think of it, the fewer laws these maniacs pass, the better.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
• Over the years, he’s clapped, stomped and gestured like a maniac on the court during games.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2021
• There are a lot of true-crime docs about trying to get into the mind of a maniac.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2021
• Egads, these bodies are short of a head, sliced off with the precision of a maniac adept at saws and blades!
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Some maniac is arguing with a ghost, and the ghost seems to be winning.
  — David Bradley Isenberg emily Flake, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
• The kids at Uvalde needed JR-15s to defend themselves from the evil maniac that didn’t care about laws.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2023
• At least the knife-wielding maniacs have the decency to keep their mouths shut.
  — James Breakwell, Indianapolis Star, 19 Feb. 2018
• Then in the twelfth round, Clay became a punching maniac.
  — Floyd Patterson, Esquire, 5 June 2016
• For the second time in three weeks, the Broncos lost with a lead in the final minutes of the game, this time to Gardner and the Minshew-maniacs.
  — Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post, 31 Dec. 2019
• Of course, would-be homicidal maniacs lurk in all kinds of jobs.
  — Rene Chun, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2019
• At worst, some nail-spitting maniac tries to run you off the road because of your Hillary bumper sticker.
  — Michael Tomasky, New Republic, 30 May 2017
• And yet this day is still shared with a genocidal maniac.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• Big games could now be covered from four hours prior to tip—when maniacs like Ray Allen show up to shoot—to the last step onto the team bus.
  — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Who’s the kind of maniac that makes a musical with all kids playing gangsters in it?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2023
• The first and most important one is sticking the ball in the net and celebrating like a maniac.
  — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 18 June 2018
• For his fast growth in China, Ye earned the nickname kai dian kuang mo, or the store-opening maniac.
  — Yue Wang, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• This maniac pulled up next to him and shot him, took away his life, murdered my baby brother.
  — Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Kirby has recruiting like a maniac and spent the money to prove it.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 29 Aug. 2019
• The biggest problem with that isn’t in deciding what to get your melody maniac, your lyric lover, your note nerd.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2019
• Also, be prepared to face down the sea of chainsaw-wielding maniacs that guard the park’s exit.
  — Scott Feinblatt, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• What the audience knows, but Meredith does not, is that Bruce is a homicidal maniac who plans to make the long drive back on his own.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2022
• But a group of diehards, led by a shirtless Mid-City maniac, gathered at an outdoor piano and summoned up a song meant to turn the tide.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• But for fruit nerds, mango maniacs, or just tourists in search of a sweet and quiet paradise, Nevis holds special charm.
  — Naomi Tomky, Fortune, 28 July 2019
• Aaron is one of that breed of mountaineers who is part climber, part trail runner, part extreme athlete and all maniac.
  — Bill Manny, idahostatesman, 8 May 2017
• Fear factor: Unnerved The old stalwart is good for being chased by your run-of-the-mill chain-saw-wielding maniacs.
  — Zoie Matthew, Los Angeles Magazine, 5 Oct. 2017
• Younger sister Tess, a recent high school graduate, is a maniac on the drums.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 1 Sep. 2017
• Breslau is the old name of the city of Wroclaw, which indicates our maniac may look to the past for inspiration.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• He’s tasked with hunting down a homicidal maniac, played by a blond, mugging Wesley Snipes.
  — Kabir Chibber, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024