How to Use madhouse in a Sentence

madhouse

noun
  • The stadium was a madhouse when the team won the championship.
  • Headphones are often my saving grace in this madhouse.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Mama Dickinson fears her husband has planned out this whole thing just to lock her away in a madhouse.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The stage was an absolute madhouse with the 30-year-old retiree wildin' out as ringleader.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2020
  • And rowdy Dolphins fans could play a role in the outcome by making the place a frothing madhouse.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
  • This season, the Seahawks were 4-4 in their madhouse, 7-1 on the road.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Williamson’s presence turned these tiny gyms into madhouses packed both by fans who wanted to catch a glimpse and a who’s who of college coaches.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2018
  • Weaving through game-day foot traffic in a madhouse of a parking lot, the family goes undetected.
    — Robert Klemko, SI.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The first Wednesday in February was once a recruiting madhouse.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2020
  • In practice, this means a madhouse of multimedia rooms, packed with gurgling videos and useless machines and humanoid bodies.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2026
  • And with all the traffic and security blockades, New Yorkers and tourists ‎too may feel no one can get off the island during this madhouse week.
    — Richard Roth, CNN, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Why should anyone expect things will suddenly be fixed during a visit to the madhouse Caesars Superdome?
    — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Maresca has the reputation and nous to take on the job and has dealt with the madhouse at Stamford Bridge, so Old Trafford won’t be a culture shock.
    — Peter South, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • But there’s reason to fear that America’s real estate market, after passing through the pandemic madhouse, might never get back to that kind of normal again.
    — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • By the time owner Robert Kraft brought out the latest Lombardi Trophy and the fifth championship banner was unveiled the place was a madhouse.
    — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Hyeseong Kim, getting his first taste of the postseason in a madhouse game, scampered home from third, joining the mass of bodies in pure elation while Kerkering remained frozen, hands on his knees.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In the moments after a president gives the State of the Union, Statuary Hall becomes a carnivalesque madhouse.
    — Nash Jenkins, Time, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Given her reputation and TikTok-famous opener Ella Langley, the badge line was a madhouse.
    — Deborah Sengupta Stith, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Mackey Arena turned into a madhouse when Stefanovic knocked down a go-ahead 3-pointer, as the Boilermakers scored 13 unanswered points in a span of three minutes.
    — Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 13 Feb. 2022
  • This success garnered him an opportunity to replace Raymond Domenech as overseer of the madhouse that was the French national team in 2010.
    — SI.com, 8 June 2018
  • Judge pulled his hands inside the pitch and launched a 373-foot line drive off the top of the left field foul pole, turning a three-run deficit into a 6-6 tie and turning Yankee Stadium into a madhouse.
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • In the fourth quarter, Soldier Field was an absolute madhouse with 60,000-plus waving towels, chewing fingernails, frothing at the mouth and … grating cheese?
    — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2026
  • And for at least one night, 19,124 at Xfinity Mobile Arena turned the building into a madhouse, largely because the Sixers have done just that.
    — Tony Jones, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Certainly the Trulieve dispensary tucked away among the warehouses and rental car lots across from the Miami airport seems to be operating like a normal and reasonably efficient business, not a Cheech-and-Chong madhouse.
    — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 1 June 2018
  • Instead of the orgiastic madhouse that fans of Monster and American Horror Story have grown accustomed to, Devil in Disguise is a somber affair, as aesthetically chilly as a December in Des Plaines, Illinois.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025

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