insane person

Example Sentences

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Preston: I’ve go my own bags, and I am sure if they don’t recognize me as Elsbeth, they just think I’m another insane person who lives in New York City and no one cares.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

How could that be the work of an insane person? he asked.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2022

"Please just know in these situations the insane person does not feel in control of their actions."

From Fox News • Jul. 2, 2020

Written from a kind of artistic absolute zero, they scan like the announcements of an insane person or a god.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 13, 2019

But, in my opinion, Dr. McFarland, does not know a sane from an insane person; or else, why does he keep so many in that Asylum, as sane as himself?

From Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity by Packard, Elizabeth Parsons Ware