How to Use madden in a Sentence

madden

verb
  • The way the Padres screw around this time of year is maddening.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
  • The chase of greatness can be maddening.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Few films capture the hum of life in all its maddening beauty quite like this one.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • Seeing a drug addict let loose on your block is maddening.
    — Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Golfers can stop blaming bad luck for those maddening near-misses.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • And that is -- that was absolutely maddening in so many ways for me.
    — Fox News, 8 Aug. 2018
  • What makes this case maddening is that every system seemed to work halfway.
    — Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
  • This could be maddening for a producer.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
  • No wonder his final role in this play is as a maddened King Lear – played in whiteface.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The science of color is also maddening for the same reason.
    — Kory Stamper, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2026
  • His secrecy is at times maddening, stretching the bounds of credulity even.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Being told no by an insurer is maddening.
    — Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 23 June 2026
  • Or has your life together reduced him to, as in your letter, a list of maddening attributes?
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The lazy rotations masked by half-hearted block attempts are maddening.
    — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Rachel and Irvi found these reactions maddening.
    — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
  • During games, there were foolish decisions on the base paths and in the outfield that maddened fans and the front office alike. Hamstring issues reduced Puig's playing time and production the last two years.
    — USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Their continued maddening play hardly comes at an ideal time.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
  • McLemore drilled some clutch three-pointers to lead the second-half charge, but two of his fouls late in the game were maddening lapses in poise.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The handlers could not risk letting the savage animals, maddened by fire, loose on the countryside.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The second was supposed to free him to cut loose rather than nibble around the plate in often-maddening attempts to throw the perfect pitch.
    — Wallace Matthews, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Baseball beauty and a maddening soap opera not even worth an attempt at summarizing.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The core concept is no doubt still maddening to plenty of Christians who would like Santa left alone.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Dec. 2025
  • This was the exact, maddening kryptonite waiting to torment these Aztecs.
    — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Lines of desire and frustration swirl around them in maddening recursion.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Thankfully, this beautiful vista isn’t marred by maddening crowds.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2026
  • It’s been maddening to watch a lineup full of high-end hitters come up empty night after night in April, a month that has felt as long as about three.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • And the young doctor is magnetically haunted, even maddened, by his creation.
    — Ann Murphy, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2017
  • Lily, meanwhile, maddened with grief, embarks on a quest to untangle the mysteries surrounding her lover.
    — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2020
  • For New Yorkers who rely on the subway, the constant delays are maddening.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • But the tragedy is, these two barely get to connect in the first place, in a story that pivots on maddening near-misses and promises unfulfilled.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2019

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