How to Use madcap in a Sentence

madcap

adjective

• Then baseball can get on to promoting what should be a madcap race.
  — Dallas News, 17 June 2020
• Adverse weather threw her off-course, but the madcap stunt made headlines across the world.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• This isn’t meant to be a tense narrative, just madcap cleverness for its own sake.
  — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 7 June 2018
• The madcap plot will keep readers in suspense until the final page.
  — Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• The chapters are just long enough to include a madcap anecdote or two—Mr.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• There were enough turns and straightaways on our quick jaunt to get some sense of how madcap bonkers the Sapphire is.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
• Amy wanted the show to have the speed of those old 40’s madcap comedy films.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
• Archer did not bowl for an hour and a half at the start of the madcap second morning when the Test was all but lost.
  — Paul Newman, New York Times, 21 June 2026
• The pair play two best friends and roommates on a madcap race to cobble together some last-minute rent money.
  — Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024
• The Cubs are a thoroughly modern team whose hitters take madcap from-the-heels swings.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2016
• Life is so good here that even the minor disaster of having his phone stolen plays out in a cutesy, faux-madcap manner.
  — Hank Stuever, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2017
• If nothing else, the King’s brief reign was a spectacular, madcap flash in the pan.
  — Bill Swank, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2026
• The scene is straight out of Boots Riley’s madcap moviemaking handbook.
  — WIRED, 22 June 2023
• The madcap road trip that ensues is rich with heart, humor and insight into what makes a family.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
• However, a madcap final quarter of an hour saw the Sounders win by the odd goal in seven.
  — SI.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• When the actors are in sync, the madcap humor of their absurd situations works very well.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2022
• Thrilled that so many got a kick out of this glimpse of this madcap version of 1930s England.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2025
• Tamma has a madcap quality, playful, very jokey.
  — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 20 Jan. 2026
• In the days and weeks ahead, Rudy Giuliani and his colleagues will go on with their madcap legal efforts.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2020
• Used to these madcap storylines, the Sex and the City fan might find the book it is based on a bitter pill to swallow.
  — Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
• This sequence has the right mix of madcap fun, gentle satire, and earnestness, but the film’s other two chapters do not get the balance quite right.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2021
• Lightning McQueen comes to mind, the wheels coming off after a madcap sprint to the finish line.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
• Mom’s hoarding and Dad’s madcap inventions?
  — Amanda Uhle august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
• Despite being down to nine men, Ajax still pressed and a winner for the Dutch side would have been fitting for such a madcap game.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
• Two live-action adaptations would be good in their own right, but in cartoon form, The Tick is a madcap circus.
  — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 29 July 2022
• With a few madcap ideas and a song in their hearts, the Teen Titans head to Hollywood to fulfill their dreams.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• In Schmigadoon, the comedy pros star as an on-the-rocks couple stuck in a madcap town out of a classic movie musical.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 June 2021
• Only a show as madcap and exciting as Crazy Ex-Girlfriend could be trusted to pull them all off.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
• Arozarena’s madcap trip around the bases somehow matched the route the Rays took to victory in a game that featured three lead changes in the last four innings.
  — Phil Miller, Star Tribune, 25 Oct. 2020
• In the unpredictable, madcap finale, All the Dead Biddles feels a little like a bad dream.
  — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 12 Jan. 2018