How to Use madman in a Sentence

madman

noun
  • No one should be surprised that Jones can be a madman, though.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
  • This makes his predictions sound like the stuff of a madman or a prophet.
    — David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Snow mazes are fun—as long as you’re not being chased through one by a madman with an axe to grind.
    — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Oct. 2018
  • Jack and Rose came from the mind of a madman (James Cameron).
    — Anne T. Donahue, Cosmopolitan, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Trump portrays himself as a madman so that nations will fear him.
    — Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
  • There's a madman that put 11 million lives at risk and gladly did so.
    — NBC News, 17 Sep. 2017
  • So be grateful John Bolton is gone, but no less afraid of the madman at the wheel.
    — Adam Weinstein, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Who but a patriot or a madman would want to be president right now?
    — Amy Wilentz, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Legrand Forget about running around the house like a madman, turning off all the lights.
    — Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Affleck, 47, has been working like a madman to get his career back on track.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
  • The madman got 74 million votes a few months ago, the second-most ever.
    — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Not when a madman and his wife suddenly show up, sporting what look like masks made of skin, trying to kill them.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The mass suicide of hundreds of people to a madman has to be an exception to that rule, no?
    — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021
  • To reason with these would be a waste of words, just as much as would be the attempt to persuade a madman out of his delusion.
    — Dan Schlenoff, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Nuclear arms built to ensure peace cloud our world and may, at the touch of some madman’s finger, destroy us.
    — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Gibson will play the professor, while Sean Penn will play the madman.
    — Yohana Desta, HWD, 12 July 2017
  • Ozzy was the madman up front, usually singing brooding lyrics written by Geezer.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 17 June 2026
  • The madman strategy is for not-crazy leaders caught in adverse predicaments.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2026
  • This is not the action of a madman, but a decisive act of fascist terrorism.
    — Jordan Anderson, Teen Vogue, 12 Feb. 2018
  • But just as the meeting concludes, Konga, the village madman, bursts in.
    — New York Times, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The freedom to send one’s kids to school without fear of a madman armed with an AR-15.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
  • That part of the madman approach remains effective.
    — Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
  • This is clearly the work of the magnificent madman who made two Step Up movies.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The film’s key scene is his murder, in which Omar appears as a blood-thirsty madman who wields the fatal sword himself.
    — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Nov. 2017
  • Congress must take a stand against a madman who publicly threatened to kill 93 million people.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • This madman is dangerous and has no business being near or in the Oval Office again.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Agent 007 and a Russian beauty foil a madman in a submarine, who is out to nuke the world.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The Steelers' James Harrison is a 39-year-old who works out like a madman.
    — Alysha Tsuji, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Praying with your feet means to move, to advance, to take, literally, steps to make sure innocents are not gunned down in church or school by a madman.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
  • At the same time, look for any opportunity to de-escalate, maybe, against the odds, to talk the madman holding the baby off the ledge.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022

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