like a madman

idiom

: very recklessly
drive like a madman.

Examples of like a madman in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Cleveland’s shortstop has performed at the plate, run the bases like a madman and played solid enough defense to force the front office to at least consider extending Rosario over his final two years of arbitration eligibility. Joe Noga, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2022 And the main throughline of it all is, of course, our dude Yorke, sounding at turns either like a madman or a prophet. Spin Staff, SPIN, 26 Dec. 2022 Then, watching Samaje run like a madman every down. Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 30 Nov. 2022 Then, watching Samaje (Perine) run like a madman every down. Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 30 Nov. 2022 Over the next two decades, as his career moved from SNL to The Tonight Show, Fallon bought up three other units across three stories of the building, stitching them together like a madman into a true Frankenstein’s monster of a triplex. Curbed, 14 June 2022 Donning Jeff Saturday’s No. 63, Pinter was alone near the front left pylon of the end zone, waving his arms like a madman after chipping his rusher and leaking out. Andy Yamashita, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2021 Serj Tankian, the singer, looks like a madman, only his hard-rock scream frequently eases up to reveal a soulful baritone — right before the music breaks back into anarchic free-for-all. Jeremy Gordon, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2021 Karl, in a book excerpt published by the Atlantic, writes about Trump, looking like a madman, banging on a table and referring to himself in the third person, laying into Barr after the attorney general finally said what was clear, on December 1, 2020, that there was no evidence of fraud. Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 28 June 2021

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“Like a madman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/like%20a%20madman. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.

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