madness - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • crowd: There's also the ' madness of crowds ' effect that makes people think that they have to assert their individuality.
  • war: Here's the madness of war, the ignorance: ' The sun is up, the world is flat ' .

Converse of object

  • feign: Where the playwright has written prose, I have left, as it is often used to indicate feigned madness and status.
  • freeze: Also animal rights group bank account frozen, courtroom madness, illegal logging and more.
  • stop: More Roads day of action in London - a show of strength to stop the latest road building madness.
  • escape: Good for escaping the madness of the rush hour.
  • lie: We know they measure mortgage costs not house prices - but do we not agree that way lies madness?
  • seem: To those brought up on Modernism it seemed madness.

Adjective modifier

  • utter: Utter madness is written into every inch of his Forces.
  • sheer: I say he was both, it is sheer madness to mess with demons.
  • absolute: No; that is madness indeed; absolute madness.
  • pure: Moreover, handing over 30-year contracts to private firms is pure madness.
  • apparent: He has to rely on a kind stranger who takes him in despite his apparent madness.
  • divine: Alan Garner's visions and bouts of divine madness continue to hold us enthralled.

Noun used with modifier

  • midsummer: This piece of midsummer madness is an all new production specially created for the LIFT Club.
  • courtroom: Also animal rights group bank account frozen, courtroom madness, illegal logging and more.
  • motorway: There is still time to stop this motorway madness and invest the money saved in sensible alternatives instead.
  • march: Alone for consumer march madness the state where the the product spending.
  • summer: A moment of summer madness, perhaps the heat of the British summer got to him.
  • railroad: Railroad madness ( 7 ) - The wrong sort of livery!

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