maddening
Example Sentences
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Ford told reporters on Monday that the neighbourly squabbles can be maddening.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The sound is not just big and bold, but scrubbed clean by AI with the goal of maddening perfection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
If there was one maddening certainty about the World Cup over the past half century, it was that Germany never, under any circumstance, lost a penalty shootout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Music is perhaps the purest of these art forms, tapping into our lizard brains to regulate our emotions that are seeking to make sense of this precious yet maddening existence.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
The work was hot and dry and as monotonous as the maddening, slowpoke motion of the pumpjacks themselves.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
