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lunatic - use in sentences
Converse of object
- escape: There they meet an escaped lunatic with a script in one hand and a gun in the other.
- have: But do we really need to have so many lunatics all in one place?
- stop: The one where he flies a helicopter over Mount Everest and single-handedly stops a raving lunatic taking over the world!
- consider: But I am growing increasingly tired of seeing the majority not getting my message and even being considered a lunatic.
Converse of subject
- run: The second problem about buying in the States is that the Federal Reserve Bank is run by a lunatic.
Adjective modifier
- raving: Or worse still, could they be a complete raving lunatic!
- harmless: Many of his peers considered him a harmless lunatic.
- dangerous: Is there any dangerous lunatic or idiot in the Workhouse?
- criminal: A Select Committee of the House of Commons had recommended the erection of a national asylum for criminal lunatics in 1807.
- religious: The threat we face today is that of religious fundamentalist lunatics who want to either control the whole world or destroy it.
- complete: Or worse still, could they be a complete raving lunatic!
Modifies a noun
- asylum: She is sent to a lunatic asylum, to be detained " at her majesty's pleasure " .
- ward: There is no bath except in the lunatic wards.
- speed: Think of racing all those fast cars round that track at lunatic speeds!
- driver: Had a slightly freaky journey involving a lot of completely lunatic drivers putting us and several other people at considerable risk.
- idea: I would very much like to know if any other council has imposed this lunatic idea on other disused railroad lines Sustrans have bought.
Noun used with modifier
- pauper: The House of Industry was extended in 1819 by the addition of a block for pauper lunatics on the west side of the building.
- county: In the years before Hampshire's county lunatic asylum existed, the Winchester workhouse provided care for " lunatic and mentally handicapped paupers " .
Preposition: in
- asylum: They also contribute £ 10 Sterling yearly toward the payment of the board of a pauper lunatic in the asylum at Dundee.
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