How to Use maddening in a Sentence

maddening

adjective
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  • He has a maddening habit of interrupting other people.
  • She shows a maddening inability to control her children.
  • Of the top four teams that seem to have the best chance to win the title, the Tigers might be the most maddening.
    — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 12 Mar. 2018
  • This, to me, is the most maddening aspect of the Trump era.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
  • The maddening part was that the show was better than all of this.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
  • And the maddening thing about it is that the White House is allowing all this.
    — Liz Cheney, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2024
  • That may explain why the fine print of the Italian plan can be so maddening.
    — Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2019
  • The video matches the weighty glory of the song with a maddening music video that couldn't have been easy to film.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2018
  • With her new memoir, the pop star tries to close a long and maddening chapter of her life.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The Aztecs have a maddening habit of starting games slowly, and Seiko has a habit of sparking them to life.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
  • What made this even more maddening is that Okerblom had been through it before.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is both wonderful and maddening in the same breath.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Not knowing why or how, or where his body was, was maddening.
    — Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2020
  • The online comments shown here are dead-on and maddening.
    — Mick Lasalle, idahostatesman, 28 Apr. 2017
  • It’s a maddening prospect, but long Covid may not be a single syndrome at all.
    — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The sheer sprawl of us, the maddening sanity of our suburbs and gridded cities: prose.
    — Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • In fact, my trip had been planned for several months, well before the start of the maddening lockdown.
    — David Culver, CNN, 12 May 2022
  • Coughing can be maddening, from that first tickle in your throat to dealing with the stuff that might come up with each heave.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 7 Apr. 2018
  • The Mavericks are 12-5 on the road, a fact that probably makes their home struggles all the more maddening to fans.
    — Dallas News, 4 Jan. 2020
  • Some of the pre-snap penalties were downright maddening.
    — Dan Woike, latimes.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • There’s no such thing as a bad Sam Shepard play, just plays that are more maddening than others.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 18 Jan. 2022
  • No one knows when the pandemic will be over or when things will be back to normal, which can be maddening.
    — Louise Matsakis, Wired, 13 Mar. 2020
  • The perfect gift for the harried commuter in your life: Waiting for the Orange Line to show up can be maddening.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2019
  • The most maddening part as a spectator — besides the fact that the game dragged on and on and on — was the ridiculous nature of the technical fouls.
    — oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Traffic was maddening, as people did not heed any warnings to avoid the areas near the course.
    — Shakeia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2023
  • It’s been maddening to be working on this alongside this growth of banning all over the country.
    — Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The book is full of the kind of speculation and assumption that can be maddening.
    — The Economist, 8 Nov. 2019
  • For years, that has been the maddening, constant request from my 7-year-old daughter.
    — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
  • But what’s maddening and puzzling is the league’s final position on the play.
    — oregonlive, 8 Feb. 2020
  • To witness a man like Bouillon in a genuine star-making explosion makes the lack of movement on the Oscar front maddening.
    — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024

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