How to Use madwoman in a Sentence

madwoman

noun

• She is a madwoman on the dance floor.
• Next up is Pagli, a madwoman with a thin, charred body, fiendish laugh, and ghoulish shrieks.
  — JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
• She is alternately hailed as a moral genius and dismissed as a madwoman.
  — Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 12 July 2019
• Add to that the almost wicked tone of the poem; its haunting last sentence could be followed by a madwoman’s cry or cackle.
  — Shara McCallum, New York Times, 30 June 2017
• Bapu refers to herself as a madwoman or a lunatic more than a dozen times in her journals, but only sometimes with despair.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
• True, Ophelia does go mad in the play, and Swift has already expressed her fondness for madwomen.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
• For real, though, was Galadriel supposed to be a genocidal madwoman and a Sauron-enabling sap?
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2022
• But Léa wonders if her sister is a penitent, a madwoman or a monster, and her husband is terrified for the safety of their daughters.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2017
• Of course, this professor is also the type of person who compares her department to the male anatomy and mixes dietary supplements like a madwoman.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 10 Apr. 2017
• Cotillard’s madwoman contortions cannot pass for innocent adolescent pique, and this exposes the film’s fakery.
  — Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2017
• Ajo Kawir, a Javanese teenager, witnesses the brutal rape of a local madwoman by two policemen, and from that moment on is rendered impotent.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• Emphasizing the urgent need for safe havens helped paint a dark portrait of a country in moral decline, where madwomen emerge from the attic and Medea crosses the border to the United States.
  — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
• But no one takes Maud seriously—just as no one believed the local madwoman ( Cara Kelly ) who haunted their village back in 1949, and who seemed to know how and why—and with whom—Sukey had vanished.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020