mad person

Example Sentences

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"I rang up his mother and said, 'You produced a genius.' I called six or eight times a day; they thought I was a mad person."

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2018

So when I eventually met him, my God, he must have thought I was some sort of mad person.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2015

Ms Kaur argued that food supplements might have caused her to test positive - she argued that she would be "a mad person" if she took steroids to enhance performance.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2011

I replied, “Somebody must know because the person who killed Wellington knows that they killed Wellington. Unless they were a mad person and didn’t know what they were doing. Or unless they had amnesia.”

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon

Another cry, like that of a mad person, struck my ears, and I knew the thing was coming toward me.

From Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" by Parrish, Randall