Example sentences for: insanity

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

  • If cliff-diving is a sport and not a form of insanity, Acapulco’s La Quebrada cliff-divers have to be the champs.

  • An article on the insanity defense recounts the miserable story of Edward Allen, the child of a wealthy New York family who's now on Oklahoma's death row for murdering his wife.

  • Though the singular insanity is far outstripped by the multiple mania, one can expect, in this age of downsizing, to encounter more of the less and less of the more.

  • Paradoxically, though, while it's often used as part of insanity pleas, PTSD implies not that its victims are crazy, but rather that they aren't . Before PTSD became a recognized disorder, after all, a Vietnam veteran suffering from hallucinatory flashbacks and wild mood swings looked, to the benighted layperson at least, nuts.

  • Such ebullitions of insanity continued for three decades, becoming more rococo.


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