How to Use madhouse in a Sentence

madhouse

noun

• The stadium was a madhouse when the team won the championship.
• This season, the Seahawks were 4-4 in their madhouse, 7-1 on the road.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• And rowdy Dolphins fans could play a role in the outcome by making the place a frothing madhouse.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
• The stage was an absolute madhouse with the 30-year-old retiree wildin' out as ringleader.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2020
• Mama Dickinson fears her husband has planned out this whole thing just to lock her away in a madhouse.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021
• Williamson’s presence turned these tiny gyms into madhouses packed both by fans who wanted to catch a glimpse and a who’s who of college coaches.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2018
• Some European airports were a madhouse this week after President Trump called a halt to most travel from Europe in a bid to slow the spread of the virus.
  — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2020
• By the time owner Robert Kraft brought out the latest Lombardi Trophy and the fifth championship banner was unveiled the place was a madhouse.
  — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• And with all the traffic and security blockades, New Yorkers and tourists ‎too may feel no one can get off the island during this madhouse week.
  — Richard Roth, CNN, 22 Sep. 2019
• The first Wednesday in February was once a recruiting madhouse.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2020
• Keeping the asymmetry satisfies Cornyn’s guidelines and preserves the G.O.P. logic—the logic of a madhouse.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• Weaving through game-day foot traffic in a madhouse of a parking lot, the family goes undetected.
  — Robert Klemko, SI.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• In the moments after a president gives the State of the Union, Statuary Hall becomes a carnivalesque madhouse.
  — Nash Jenkins, Time, 31 Jan. 2018
• Mackey Arena turned into a madhouse when Stefanovic knocked down a go-ahead 3-pointer, as the Boilermakers scored 13 unanswered points in a span of three minutes.
  — Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 13 Feb. 2022
• This success garnered him an opportunity to replace Raymond Domenech as overseer of the madhouse that was the French national team in 2010.
  — SI.com, 8 June 2018
• But there’s reason to fear that America’s real estate market, after passing through the pandemic madhouse, might never get back to that kind of normal again.
  — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• Certainly the Trulieve dispensary tucked away among the warehouses and rental car lots across from the Miami airport seems to be operating like a normal and reasonably efficient business, not a Cheech-and-Chong madhouse.
  — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 1 June 2018
• Airport Attendant Estimated pay: About $11.50 per hour During the holidays, airports become overcrowded, stressful madhouses teeming with frustration, long lines, impatient travelers and, of course, screaming children.
  — Andrew Lisa, ajc, 16 Nov. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024