How to Use madman in a Sentence

madman

noun
  • Jack and Rose came from the mind of a madman (James Cameron).
    Anne T. Donahue, Cosmopolitan, 11 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • This makes his predictions sound like the stuff of a madman or a prophet.
    David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Malgieri’s Quixote is both fool and hero, madman and sage.
    John Timpane, Philly.com, 13 June 2017
  • No one should be surprised that Jones can be a madman, though.
    Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Crepe Bar Jeff Kraus is a madman in the best possible way.
    Dominic Armato, azcentral, 6 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • There was a madman in our family, a man who lost his mind.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 12 July 2022
  • The madman got 74 million votes a few months ago, the second-most ever.
    John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Legrand Forget about running around the house like a madman, turning off all the lights.
    Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2020
  • There's a madman that put 11 million lives at risk and gladly did so.
    NBC News, 17 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • All the gore of dozens of people killed and wounded by a madman with a high-powered rifle.
    David E. Carpenter, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Gibson will play the professor, while Sean Penn will play the madman.
    Yohana Desta, HWD, 12 July 2017
  • The Steelers' James Harrison is a 39-year-old who works out like a madman.
    Alysha Tsuji, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The mass suicide of hundreds of people to a madman has to be an exception to that rule, no?
    Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021
  • From one movie madman to another… thanks for your kind note.
    Eric King, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Affleck, 47, has been working like a madman to get his career back on track.
    Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
  • But just as the meeting concludes, Konga, the village madman, bursts in.
    New York Times, 8 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Who but a patriot or a madman would want to be president right now?
    Amy Wilentz, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • What all parties can at least celebrate is that Trump looks less and less like a despotic madman.
    T.a. Frank, The Hive, 27 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • The Lunatic by Anthony C. Winkler is a morbid trip into the mind of a madman.
    Roxane Gay, ELLE, 23 Mar. 2022
  • At the time, this probably sounded like a cocky boast from a delusional madman.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
  • There’s also Anthony Perkins as a madman in a preacher’s robe who is obsessed with China Blue.
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024

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