How to Use mayhem in a Sentence

mayhem

noun

• There would have been a very simple way to stop such mayhem: Sell the MoonSwatch online.
  — Jeremy White, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024
• In this 2018 sequel, Michael Myers is back for more mayhem.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 9 June 2022
• The other difference between the two cases is the mayhem that took place online outside the courtroom.
  — Sarah Ellison, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
• But the mayhem comes at a particularly tough time in the US, where sales of electric cars are flagging.
  — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2024
• In the face of gun violence, we are all being tasked with being heroic, with denying our fears and flaws, and to just keep going about our day as if this mayhem is normal.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
• Lamps shatter, biting and choking ensues, and by the time the 28 minutes are done, mayhem — literal and emotional — spills out from every corner.
  — Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
• And, with that, the SEC’s master of mayhem strikes again.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2023
• Knight of Wands: March is sure to be full of mayhem, Leo!
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2022
• The mayhem started long before the 9:30 a.m. opening of the doors.
  — Holly Gleason, Variety, 17 Mar. 2024
• But none of the protests came close to the mayhem of the Battle of Michigan Avenue.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• Leave it to Christine to come up with a testament to hope in the midst of all the mayhem.
  — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2022
• And during much of the mayhem, the Israeli army was almost nowhere to be seen.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• In the process, some people get bumped by bags while others try to sit tight to avoid the mayhem.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
• The regime’s aid to Russia is of a piece with its long campaign of mayhem in the Middle East and around the world.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Nov. 2022
• In the midst of the mayhem, an NBC News producer had a cellphone knocked out of her hands.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 25 June 2022
• In Singapore a store was forced to shut for 10 days in a bid to let the mayhem play itself out.
  — Jeremy White, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023
• The mayhem in South Carolina was one of three mass shootings overnight across the U.S.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 2 June 2024
• So, barring mayhem, North Dakota will not earn a first-round bye for the event.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
• Friends and relatives of Lynch said he was not involved in the mayhem.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
• The race had nearly been caution-free before the late mayhem.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2023
• Harmless mayhem has been swirling around the set of the long-running ABC talk show lately.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
• Takeovers can play out in the middle of the night on isolated streets or in the day, when other drivers are caught in the mayhem.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• Swathes of the Russian internet got taken out in the mayhem.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
• As the mayhem has spread, though, hundreds of Palestinians like Zoufi have jumped into the fight.
  — Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
• Scenes of the Ocean Drive mayhem appeared on national news shows.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
• And is the result enough to justify all the mayhem and murder that happens in those 12 hours?
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 2022
• The point is that Fury of the Gods actually cares about this stuff enough to fold it into the fabric of the usual mayhem.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2023
• Most of the mayhem is executed in great style, though some visual effects fall short of the mark.
  — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
• The new film mirrors that mayhem in a setting not conducive to silence.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
• Patrick Somerville, the show’s creator, saw the story as a necessary counterpoint to all the doom and mayhem.
  — Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024