Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for craze. Search instead for craz.
Definitions

craze

[krayz] / kreɪz /




Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Simply Good Foods earlier this year promised investors a plan to grow sales again, saying poor execution had hurt its ability to capitalize on America’s protein craze.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The meme-stock craze might have faded as many of the era’s favorite stocks eventually lost their luster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

But how likely is the current froyo craze to survive?

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

"Before the ube craze, it was a niche market," he said, adding it had lagged behind high-value crops like bananas, mangoes and coffee.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Papi smiled coyly, then added, "They're all the craze now. The girl at Schwarz said she'd sold half a dozen already that day."

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Like many other internet-fueled food crazes, Cane’s enthusiasm often spills offline in surprisingly tangible ways.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Thanks to social media and modern health crazes, hydration is no longer about just drinking water — and that has kicked off a corporate rush to develop and market more sophisticated drinks.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026

This may be the right moment to consider that even the most high-flying investment crazes generally end in tears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

The company went public at the beginning of October and has positioned itself at the crossroads of two crazes: the build-out of more data centers to power artificial intelligence and a potential U.S. nuclear-power resurgence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

The waves of recurring crime, the silly fads and crazes, the quicksilver changes in public taste, the hysteria and fears—all of these had long been mysteries to me.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

It was a crazed type of infatuation with stardom, not generated from me, but at me.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

“It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances!”

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026

My biggest outlay has been for the skinny tires, which my wife, Tina, wears out like a crazed teenager.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

It brought people who saw the hordes of crazed support as a money faucet—an opportunity to turn Tesla allegiance into a financial gold mine.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025

I got up and looked out, but the glass was covered with a sheet of thin ice, and the only thing I could see was the crazed pattern of the streetlight outside.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

But the Bureau of Land Management still moved to protect them with new rules that would limit mining, development and cattle crazing — all of which represent lucrative revenue for industries and the states.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2015

As bad as we’ve played, people might think I’m crazing for saying we don’t believe we’re out of it.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2011

Too thick a finish will cause cooling, crazing and cracking.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the coefficient of expansion of these three layers differs, in other121 words, if the glaze does not fit, the result is crazing, that bugbear of the potter.

From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox

It was all crazing him, and his nails bit into his palms as he sat there, silent and heavy-breathed.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford


Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training