How to Use maniacal in a Sentence

maniacal

adjective
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  • The greens are maniacal; there are hills in there, too.
    — Steve Pajak, sacbee, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Leave it to Lady Gaga to give one of the most famous faces in the world a maniacal makeover.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2024
  • There would be no killing with maniacal leisure on this day, in this store.
    — Jeff Eager, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Belly laughs echo through the rafters as the dogs run maniacal circles through the house.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2021
  • But legal light had been over for a while, and the maniacal howls and yips of coyotes were all around me.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
  • If things got a bit hairy, a fast health boost shot to the chest quickly got me back to my near-maniacal slashfest.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2020
  • This might sound like a maniacal threat fit for a Bond villain.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The queen of Playland was Laughing Sal, a tall, blowsy figure of fun, with a maniacal laugh.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2018
  • There's a lot of arrogance in the business and a lot of maniacal people in the business.
    — Nigel Smith, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The go-to move for the 30-year-old is to widen her eyes and grin with the same maniacal glint as Annie Lennox, a primary influence.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 June 2017
  • The result of their maniacal pursuit of such extremes is plain to see.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Now, all Max needs is a step brother and a maniacal little sis!
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 2 Jan. 2019
  • The smile, as a signifier of maniacal fear, goes back a long way.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2022
  • His party-boy energy borders on the maniacal, and his club-ready rhythms flirt with the bizarre.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The discovery of all 12 boys alive brought with it joy and a maniacal focus on rescue.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2018
  • Brad Dourif, the original voice of the maniacal doll, is back in his original role, a true treat for fans of the movie franchise.
    — Therese Odell, Chron, 19 Oct. 2021
  • For Gaspar, the son, this maniacal cult is his destiny.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
  • This prompts a knowing glance and then an outburst of maniacal laughter from Cage who then gets back into his car and drives off.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 27 July 2019
  • However, Xi then rose, a decade ago, as the new, though less maniacal Mao, ensuring the end of that era much sooner than 2047.
    — Doug Bandow, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
  • For Sarah, getting Grace to marry her son was all part of a maniacal stealing-from-seniors plan.
    — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Forty-five years later, the maniacal lead singer’s punk mess of orange hair is now a Kewpie doll comb-over; the ashes of the smirking, hot mess of a bassist, long scattered.
    — Hector Saldana, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Mist billowed from the huge Palais de Tokyo fountain as a woman’s maniacal laughter played on loop.
    — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Then the Oval Office recordings — maniacal, foul, racist — came out.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2018
  • But for the rest of us, there’s still the fun of watching a maniacal piece of plastic running around wreaking havoc and carving up bodies.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 21 June 2019
  • Talk about maniacal in terms of preparation, in terms of game-planning, and then have the demeanor during the game to be calm, cool, collected and, and rip off those play-calls.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 18 Feb. 2022
  • During the casting process, did everyone have to put their most maniacal smile on tape?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But also keep an eye out for the maniacal inhabitants of this scare zone.
    — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The mockumentary skewers the world of show-business and the depths some maniacal auteurs will sink to in pursuit of their vision.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 17 June 2024
  • Though the host may be done at Fox, his egotistical, maniacal brand of conservatism thrives in the Trump era, Isaac Chotiner finds.
    — Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine, 20 Apr. 2017
  • These days, the available options are packed full of adult-friendly thrills — from outrageous meme-making card games to maniacal twists on old classics.
    — Elizabeth Buxton, refinery29.com, 16 Jan. 2024

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