LUNACY in a Sentence

Learn LUNACY 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.

Example sentences for LUNACY, such as:

1. She saw that he stood on the verge of lunacy, if he had not already stepped across it.
2. The only beneficiary of letting Hillary continue in her lunacy is the media and the Republican party.
3. So, to my fond faith, poor Pip, in this strange sweetness of his lunacy, brings heavenly vouchers of all our heavenly homes.

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lunacy
 n.  insanity or madness; something deeply misguided
Classic Sentence:
1  Ahab's full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
2  So, to my fond faith, poor Pip, in this strange sweetness of his lunacy, brings heavenly vouchers of all our heavenly homes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
3  She saw that he stood on the verge of lunacy, if he had not already stepped across it.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
Example Sentence:
1  The only beneficiary of letting Hillary continue in her lunacy is the media and the Republican party.