How to Use monomania in a Sentence

monomania

noun

• Most were instant communities, born of the same monomania for property sales as the grid.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
• The entire plot of the movie spun out of his love for Princess Peach, and Black’s vocal performance was a delectable weave of monomania and insecurity.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026
• The Kennedy assassination all at once gave Martin a vocation and a network of pen pals and phone buddies; her monomania also provided her kids with an opportunity for experiential learning in a pre-digital era.
  — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2026
• Bernhard’s barely contained incestuous desires (The Loser is only one of a suite of works about brother-sister love and hate, alongside Correction, The Lime Works, and Concrete) are the product of individual psychologies run amok and turned back on themselves, the offshoots of artistic monomania.
  — Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
• The funny thing is, Austin fathered seven children in all, but only Dot, Betty and Helen were coerced into performing, and their father’s monomania is compared, quite alarmingly, to such bullying stage fathers as Murray Wilson (The Beach Boys) and Joe Jackson (The Jackson 5).
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026