Example sentences for: demented

How can you use “demented” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While I have no information on Bill Donohue and his cohorts, all too often what's revealed is an unappetizing confederacy of rabid bigots and slick hustlers with mailing lists who know funds can be extracted from the demented to attack everything from Tom Sawyer to Teletubbies.

  • I felt like an Apache contemplating the last anti-Semitic buffalo, sad and scraggly and demented.

  • Phillip Noyce, the director, and Dean Semler, the cinematographer, cook up some eerily muzzy images inside the brackish tunnels and abandoned warehouses where the fiend does his/her demented surgery.

  • An example of the tragic consequences of Pataki's neglect: A demented man, refused care by several overcrowded health care facilities, recently killed a woman by pushing her under a subway train.

  • In the New Republic , James Wood calls Toni Morrison's Paradise trite and sentimental: "It forces magic and pure rhapsodies on its characters like a demented anesthetist bullying patients with laughing gas."


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