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
• 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
• 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 rest of the trailer shows Sheila on what might be the brink of insanity, constantly snapping at people and bathing in a tub of cookies.
  — Averi Kremposky, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• Miller has pleaded not guilty on the basis of insanity.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
• Then again, believing that to be true might just be what insanity looks like from the inside.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
• Prosecutors had charged Lindsay with three counts each of murder and strangulation, but her lawyer, setting up an insanity defense, told the story of an exemplary mother who was failed by the medical system and suffered a psychotic break.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025