How to Use madness in a Sentence

madness

noun
  • It was the height of madness for him to drive at such high speeds!
  • Her friends told her the idea was pure madness, but she went through with it anyway.
  • He suffered a series of tragedies that nearly drove him to madness.
  • There is a method to the madness.
    — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But there is a method to the madness.
    — Greg Cote april 16, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
  • What can be done to stop this madness?
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Please pray for this madness to stop.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Please pray for this madness to stop.
    — Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Please pray for this madness to stop.
    — Emily Trainham, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Please pray for this madness to stop.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But the thing is, there is like method to the madness, right?
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • Of course, there is some method to the madness, but not much.
    — Jais Tollette, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Here’s a roundup of May madness.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2026
  • Stop the madness, stop the lying and just be free.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • There is a certain method to this madness, of course.
    — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Nothing has changed in this week of madness.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Stop the madness, stop the lying, and just be free.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Stop the madness, stop the lying, and just be free.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 19 June 2026
  • Stop the madness, stop the lying, and just be free.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 18 June 2026
  • Somebody needs to rise above all this madness.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 30 Dec. 2025
  • But is there a method to the madness to get from hello to close?
    — Melody Avecilla, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The sense of madness can be overcome.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Your dog wants in on all of it, and your cat can’t wait for the madness to end.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The rest of the film puts his madness on plain and pitiable display.
    — John Hirschauer, National Review, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Still, the closing stretch had more madness in store.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • So maybe there is – sometimes – a method to the madness.
    — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
  • That’s almost the method to that madness, right?
    — Elise Devlin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • That, too, was shoved aside, as was a midnight madness event.
    — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • There was madness in the studio.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Someone needs to curb the madness.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026

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