Example sentences for: mad

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

  • Thus, play ball with seems obvious; but mad as a hatter , though properly a simile, needs an explanation; play possum is meaningful only to those who have been told what it means or have had direct experience with the behavior of opossums.

  • Time calls her a "mad genius."

  • Numerous entries played on the names of the special prosecutor ("Starr-gate," "Starr Chamber," "Starr Trek," "Starr Grazing") and the scandal's mad secret taper ("Trippwire," "Tripplash").

  • I'm still waiting and hoping that he'll finally be barking mad.

  • All you need, apparently, is a lathe, a sharp knife, a band saw (not to be confused with a hawk), manual dexterity, dedication, and the requisite amount of the higher lunacy (though, like Hamlet, Arnold is but mad northnorth-west), and you too could say: I can do that.


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