madwoman

Example Sentences

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As it turns out, Nina isn’t the unhinged madwoman she’s perceived to be.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

“There’s a fine line between madwoman and dreamer,” Maxine will observe, from the vantage of that line.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2024

Biographer Judith Thurman, writing in the New Yorker in 2001, called Dr. Milford’s biography “one of the big literary events of the feminist new wave — the first liberation of a madwoman from the attic.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2022

"My sister, my hilarious, charming, perfect sister: now other. The irate madwoman on the train," Leddy says.

From Fox News • Mar. 28, 2022

And they would have struck, too, if the madwoman had not spun on one heel and taken three graceful leaps to the side.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill