CRAZE in a Sentence

Learn CRAZE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

13 example sentences for CRAZE, such as:

1. He became crazed with anger/jealousy/pain.
2. She started a craze for this type of jewellery.
3. Uneasy and almost crazed, she seized his hand and led him to her grandfather.
4. The craze for drink had seized him again, and he ordered me to pull up outside a gin palace.
5. The thought of arguing with a man as grief crazed as the one Mammy depicted made her go cold.

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craze
 n.  fine crack in a surface or glaze; short-lived popular fashion; inordinate desire or longing; passion
Classic Sentence:
1  The craze for drink had seized him again, and he ordered me to pull up outside a gin palace.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
2  One of these was the craze for Greek and Latin learning, and the other was a desire to hold office.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.
3  When a woman in such a situation, neither old, deaf, crazed, nor whimsical, takes upon herself to sob and soliloquize aloud there is something grievous the matter.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
4  But at length some sense came back to their crazed minds, and the whole of them, thirteen in number, took horse and started in pursuit.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
5  The poor boy was half crazed with grief, and yet he had to go to London to play this match, for he could not get out of it without explanations which would expose his secret.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
6  Mrs. Thatcher was almost crazed; and Aunt Polly, also.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  Uneasy and almost crazed, she seized his hand and led him to her grandfather.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 93. Valentine.
8  The thought of arguing with a man as grief crazed as the one Mammy depicted made her go cold.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
9  His coarse, strong nature craved, and could endure, a continual stimulation, that would have utterly wrecked and crazed a finer one.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence:
1  Flower - arranging has become a great craze in Suffolk.
2  She started a craze for this type of jewellery.
3  Thai clothing stores see a rush to buy pink shirts, thanks to a fashion craze sparked by the country's King.
4  He became crazed with anger/jealousy/pain.