How to Use mayhem in a Sentence

mayhem

noun

• And, with that, the SEC’s master of mayhem strikes again.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2023
• Knight of Wands: March is sure to be full of mayhem, Leo!
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2022
• The mayhem started long before the 9:30 a.m. opening of the doors.
  — Holly Gleason, Variety, 17 Mar. 2024
• Dave Coulier also gets knocked out in the midst of the mayhem, by the way.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
• The action didn't spell out how Drake could have been at fault for the mayhem.
  — NBC News, 12 Nov. 2021
• But none of the protests came close to the mayhem of the Battle of Michigan Avenue.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• Leave it to Christine to come up with a testament to hope in the midst of all the mayhem.
  — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2022
• At the time of the melee, Silva-Prentice was assigned to the P2 unit at Souza, walled off from the mayhem.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• And during much of the mayhem, the Israeli army was almost nowhere to be seen.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• In the process, some people get bumped by bags while others try to sit tight to avoid the mayhem.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
• The regime’s aid to Russia is of a piece with its long campaign of mayhem in the Middle East and around the world.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Nov. 2022
• The wild, flowing locks of dark hair are long gone, and so is the mayhem that arrived in South Texas with them.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Apr. 2022
• In the midst of the mayhem, an NBC News producer had a cellphone knocked out of her hands.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 25 June 2022
• In Singapore a store was forced to shut for 10 days in a bid to let the mayhem play itself out.
  — Jeremy White, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023
• Blast is a rush, each race a two-minute burst of effects and colors and mayhem.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2021
• In that case, Louie Sanchez pleaded guilty to a felony count of mayhem and was sentenced to eight years in prison.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2022
• But such mirth and mayhem are not Mainstream Sellout‘s goal.
  — Charles Aaron, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2022
• All of the murder and mayhem that occurred in two hours and 45 minutes was about what was in here.
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 27 Mar. 2022
• The mayhem in South Carolina was one of three mass shootings overnight across the U.S.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 2 June 2024
• So, barring mayhem, North Dakota will not earn a first-round bye for the event.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
• Friends and relatives of Lynch said he was not involved in the mayhem.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
• Part II‘s kickoff gives you thrills-spills-chills mayhem that would play well in any space.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2021
• Roach presents these attempts as a mix of mayhem and success.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2021
• Even with most protests taking place within a few blocks, news of the mayhem stretched across the country.
  — Author: Sara Cline, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2021
• In a letter to the judge, Jackson denied taking part in the mayhem.
  — Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2022
• And don't expect this mayhem to all be resolved by episode's end.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2021
• The race had nearly been caution-free before the late mayhem.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2023
• Harmless mayhem has been swirling around the set of the long-running ABC talk show lately.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
• Rarely has such mayhem been so sharply, poignantly choreographed.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
• Your brain is hard-wired to zoom in on violence, mayhem and terrorism for fight-or-flight purposes because those acts are threats to survival.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025