Example sentences for: manias

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

  • There is a new book out that catalogues all sorts of financial manias over the years; you can't read it without seeing the obvious parallels to the Internet mania.

  • This is the Iron Law of Preteen Manias.

  • He tried in The Day of the Locust (1939), with its more or less realistic story of Hollywood down and outs, but mostly he succeeded in placing a veneer of hard-boiled literary conventions over his manias about women and sex, which makes him seem just as crazy as in his other books, but less aware of it, therefore less entertaining.

  • As America's unofficial central banker, Morgan tried to rein in the excesses of the business cycle, stifle speculative manias, control corporate competition, keep the currency "sound," and stop panics.

  • But amid the tales of rupiah and ringgit one also hears surprisingly old-fashioned references--to Charles Kindleberger's classic 1978 book Manias, Panics, and Crashes , and even to Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street (1873).


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