Example sentences for: demented

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

  • In Paris, the conservative Le Figaro repeated the usual French view that Flytrap is a symptom of demented American puritanism.

  • . . The one bright spot of the night: At 8 PM, TNT starts its 24-hour marathon of A Christmas Story . This movie captures what being a kid during the holidays is about: demented Santas, bickering parents, and the endless agonizing over whether you'll receive the year's hot toy.

  • He concluded, "So the man caught red-handed in perjury, obstruction of justice and ungallantly smearing his lover as a demented stalker is hailed as the winner.

  • For the same reasons, leprosy is now called Hansen's disease , and mongolism has become Down syndrome ; people who were once called crazy, mad, lunatic, demented, etc., are now categorized as sick . All this name changing is mere logomancy which neither changes the fact that there is something wrong with the afflicted nor, in the long run, our attitudes towards them.

  • Rather than dismiss the shooter as a cold-blooded killer, Bush called him a "sick person" who must be "demented."


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