How to Use mad in a Sentence

mad

adjective
  • That guy makes me so mad!
  • What are you so mad about?
  • She's mad for a cute boy in her class.
  • If you keep teasing that dog, you'll make him mad.
  • He's mad keen on sailing.
  • Both of those schools then mad ethe jump to 5A, and haven't slowed down.
    Alex Chenevey, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The band was mad, so the kids from the Lampoon came up with a backup plan.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The substance is dog waste—and lots of people are mad about it.
    Kelly Conaboy, The Atlantic, 26 July 2023
  • Maybe there’ll be something to get mad about next time.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Don’t write that, though — Black people will be mad at me.
    Paige Darrah, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2022
  • In the mad rush to the lifeboats, hundreds of companies were stranded on deck.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
  • My mom was mad at my dad for taking me at three years old.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The people who get mad about it are people who just don’t want to think about it.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
  • Desjardins whipped off his cap to show off his full head of hair, to mad applause.
    Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
  • Her on-field teammates went ballistic in a mad rush up the field.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Is Taupin afraid of saying the wrong thing and making Elton mad?
    Allison Stewart, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • So please don’t be like the guy who swung at me last night and had the cops in store arrest him, and just try not to be mad at us.
    Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
  • There may be no one in Hollywood who won’t be mad at this list.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • There are two main reasons for the mad stampede off the plane – and both are terrible.
    Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Two years later, Godzilla rears its head again from the ocean depths off Japan, mad as hell.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • This isn't the first time Starbucks has made its customers frothing mad over cost hikes to its menu.
    Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 10 May 2023
  • The Break is being spread by the four Tantas, once benevolent rulers who’ve gone mad from it.
    George Yang, Variety, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Trump people are mad at me for saying that nobody tried to kill him for all four years.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
  • That is not the same as actually making one of them mad.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Compared to the mad days of their gestation there are no mysteries of shock and awe, no strut and spunk.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2024
  • All alone in the Manhattan high-rise, the burglar, Nemo (that’s Nobody, in Latin), begins to go mad.
    Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • My mother was mad, my girlfriend never spoke to me again.
    Jim Clash, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The Lions, mad at the world after their controversial loss to the Cowboys, will end that shot.
    The Arizona Republic, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Her presence causes the Tantas to go mad and wage war against their people.
    Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2023
  • In their place, plain white walls, a perfect canvas for the pizza, a standout even in this pizza-mad town.
    oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2022

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