Example sentences for: maddening

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

  • --but as a maddening violation of the professional rules."

  • Looking at the English translation of the codex on a CD-ROM at the exhibit, I saw that what began as an attempt by Leonardo to set down the first principles of the behavior of water ended up as a farrago of observations and musings--fanciful, insightful, analytically maddening.

  • He answered the House Judiciary Committee's 81 questions with maddening evasions, and in remarks at the White House Dec. 11, when everyone was expecting a definitive apology, he failed to acknowledge his public lies, as opposed to his private sexual misconduct.

  • You might, indeed, find the voices shrill and the mannerisms maddening (many characters seem to spend most of the time fussing with their sleeves, which can unroll to the floor).

  • Eventually I concluded even the correct word would have become maddening from repetition, unrelieved by a synonym or circumlocution.


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