How to Use manic in a Sentence

manic

adjective

• The low is made all the more real by the descent from a manic high.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• The woman’s boyfriend, 19, of Euclid, said the woman had a manic episode while in his car.
  — cleveland, 17 Nov. 2021
• Lanning asked his team, his eyes widening in a manic rage.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Wiry and manic, Forcade wore a black hat and refused to have his face photographed.
  — Sean Howe, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2023
• James flips it upside down for a manic, unpredictable speedrun of a remix.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2023
• Fanning does manic, funny, grief-filled, and lusty, and sometimes all of them at once.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• The last 96 hours have been one of the most manic and momentous in my last decade in venture capital.
  — Alex Lazarow, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Ahmed teams with artist Joey Vazquez for a manic story that pits Kamala against a zombie horde.
  — Joe George, Men's Health, 14 June 2022
• Writing often sent her into a manic state, and conflicts on the fan pages left her seething.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
• Like the rest of The Wolf of Wall Street, the shipwreck scene is manic, jaw-droppingly shameless, and darkly funny.
  — Meg Walters, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2022
• Midway through the film, Kitty finds her husband manic over her death.
  — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2024
• Hospital records say Jake was in a manic state after the attack.
  — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2022
• Manic depressives miss the high of the manic episodes, schizophrenics miss their visions.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• Usually a verse this complex would come off rushed, sped up, or manic.
  — Josh Svetz, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2022
• Hassan will act normal for a while and then become frantic and manic.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2023
• Miller had told me that, even with his thousands of rows of data, the market is so manic that many of its extremes still feel hard to explain.
  — Curbed, 29 Apr. 2022
• The rest of the weekend, Matt swings between catatonic and explosive—manic with fear.
  — Hazlitt, 14 Dec. 2022
• Peter had declined rapidly in the last few months and had been manic and combative.
  — Lori Riley, courant.com, 27 Dec. 2021
• Though Cody believes that Cindy had stopped using drugs by then (with the help of a nearby methadone clinic), her manic episodes left him unnerved.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• At the same time, both basically hit one manic note for an hour and a half that might have been reduced to punchier effect.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Mar. 2022
• Readers sent in their poems, The Times released a great moan, Making readers even more manic.
  — New York Times, 6 May 2022
• Stocks are leaping on Wall Street Tuesday, as some of the most breathtaking moves from a manic Monday reverse course.
  — Stan Choe, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2023
• At one point, a manic Barry threatens Gene and his family.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• The short, a play on the common horror trope of the token Black friend being the first to be killed, finds an all-Black group of friends on the stereotypical camping trip in the woods chased by a manic killer.
  — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 13 Sep. 2022
• But Robbie’s lewd, manic stare (perfect for Suicide Squad) is too scary for Barbie.
  — Armond White, National Review, 19 July 2023
• At night, bats swooped and hunted through a thick, sonic stew of frog chorus, and coyotes curdled the air with their manic songs whenever the silver moon rose in the east.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 24 Mar. 2022
• Sharing script credit with Pam Brady, Apatow serves up some clever lines, but they're mostly lost in the overall noise and manic tone.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
• Gomez detailed what her manic and depressive episodes are like.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 4 Nov. 2022
• Since 1975, the manic, good-natured wild card of the Eagles has been its most vivacious showman – mugging, shuffling, bark-singing.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
• Sleep still eluded me, and my mind began flickering into a manic state.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024