madman

Example Sentences

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“I knew the second that I poked my head up from my exile, I was probably going to be met by some madman charging at me with an ax,” Nuzzi said in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Bob Gale, must have been as much of a madman savant as Christopher Lloyd’s Doc Brown to compress so much plot into every frame.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

But heavy metal’s favorite madman leaves us with his reminder that “You Can’t Kill Rock and Roll.”

From Slate • Jul. 25, 2025

It's only the maniacal laughter in the fading bars that suggests this outlook is the purview of a madman.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025

Abraham Lincoln had been senselessly slain by the hand of a madman, and Jethro Creighton, with all the people of his time, had suffered an irreparable loss.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt