How to Use madly in a Sentence

madly

adverb
  • She fell madly in love with him.
  • He told her that he loved her madly.
  • What about falling madly in love with the man of your dreams?
    — Moni Basu, CNN, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Shaina is going to be madly in love with me at the end of it.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 21 Feb. 2022
  • No wonder the world was so ready to fall madly in love with them.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2022
  • As the others take off madly down the mountain, there is no doubt.
    — Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 27 June 2018
  • The pair fall madly in love before hatching a plan to break out of the joint.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
  • No, these are for the space fans who are madly obsessed with the universe.
    — Grace Dean, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Some of them will truly, madly, deeply miss this place, and playing there.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
  • In other words, the show could stand to ease on down more and vibrate madly a bit less.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Then dropped a line back in only to see the rod dip madly, then line begin to play out.
    — oregonlive, 11 July 2023
  • Twas a dark and sad and clammy day; A lark caws daftly, madly.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Two teenagers meet at a party and fall truly, madly, hastily in love.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 8 May 2025
  • At the age of 40, Sarlak is still madly in love with his sport.
    — Don Riddell, CNN, 1 July 2021
  • Most cats will be madly attracted to one or more of the above, but some cats will ignore them all.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Clarkson was madly in love and planning a wedding.
    — Sarah Jones, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Fell madly in love with a man who taught her to love Dante and Keats, beauty and truth.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2018
  • And the man who would be the Boss was truly, madly, deeply confused about what to do next.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Below them are the people in the middle, paddling madly to stay in place.
    — Madeline Leung Coleman, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The lovebirds are still together and as madly in love as ever.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
  • At the core of the show, there were two people who fell madly in love who had just gotten together.
    — Jean Bentley, SPIN, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Before the song was over, Kim was standing on her kick drum, grinning madly.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Like a lot of things, the Axios dialect emerged from a good idea that spun madly out of control.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
  • That the color evokes looking up to the clouds on a clear day should feel like a return to form as the world spins madly on.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Ishihara plays one of the new hires, who's followed onto the ship by a young woman who's madly in love with him.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 30 May 2018
  • The sky turned orange, the flames licked toward them on the ridge, and his crew started running madly for their lives.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
  • The lyrics changed; the rhythm changed; the chords and the melody went from being quick and choppy to deeply madly infectious.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • Gage and Harvey Guillén play boyfriends who appear to be madly in love.
    — Marc Malkin, Variety, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Barbara Palvin and Dylan Sprouse are madly in love and not afraid to show it.
    — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2023
  • That’s the Donald who was madly in love with his second wife, Janice.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2025

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