How to Use insanity in a Sentence

insanity

noun

• She was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
• His friends thought his decision to quit his job was pure insanity.
• Please, no more violence. It's time to stop this insanity.
• Was the goal of the docu to open people’s eyes to this insanity?
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
• Of all the sequences, which one pushed you and your team to the brink of insanity?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
• Jimenez, 20 at the time of the killings, entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
• The business drove him into debt and to the brink of insanity.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• But insanity is the name of the game in college sports today.
  — oregonlive, 15 July 2022
• No wonder the Bay Area grew tired of this sort of insanity.
  — Fox News, 9 June 2022
• That's certainly the case for the insanity of Pump It Up!
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2020
• In the time of the Soviet Union, the preferred charge was insanity.
  — Ahmed Abbes, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2020
• Without any of the baggage of Trump, without any of the insanity of 2020.
  — NBC News, 13 Mar. 2022
• No one alive today is going to live long enough to see the end of this insanity.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
• He was found innocent by reason of insanity in the rest of the killings.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 6 June 2022
• Nobody in Lapvona had gone mad in a century, but the room still held the charge of dread and insanity.
  — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• The promise of a Biden victory, for both the public and the press, was to make all this insanity go away.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
• The clips are pure insanity, more so than a 48-hour livestream merits.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2021
• Yes, at some point, there will be an end to this insanity and horror.
  — Tim Hutchinson, Bob Kerrey, Ben Nelson, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022
• The pair pleaded not guilty on the grounds of insanity, a plea that was rejected by the jury.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
• For business, 2022 has been a dizzying year, and the fourth quarter has only upped the ante on the insanity.
  — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
• The case was retried in 2006, when Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 26 May 2024
• Maryland’s version of the insanity plea — for the 2020 killing.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022
• Brown entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity in June.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 20 Sep. 2022
• It`s just insanity to say all the children can`t breathe.
  — NBC News, 20 Aug. 2021
• Court records show Wilder was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity in Tuscaloosa County in the 1980s.
  — al, 29 Apr. 2021
• Crystal said, when all Crystal had seen of her was the insanity?
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 June 2021
• That’s still a bit shy, though, of the insanity that surrounded Stanley cups at their peak.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
• For some of us, these clips and posts have been a relief, islands of amusing calm in a roiling sea of insanity.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
• The Massachusetts mom accused of killing her three young children before slitting her wrists and jumping out of a second-story window in an attempt to take her own life is planning to seek an insanity defense, court records show.
  — Kc Baker, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
• The Massachusetts labor and delivery nurse who allegedly strangled and killed her three young children last year before attempting to take her own life, is seeking to pursue a defense of insanity, according to court documents.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2025