MADDEN in a Sentence

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Upstairs she could hear Prissy galloping about like a wild animal and the sound maddened her, for she was galloping just as aimlessly.

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 Meanings and Examples of MADDEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
madden
 v.  make mad; drive to madness; craze; excite violently with passion; make very angry
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  The sight of the splintered boat seemed to madden him, as the blood of grapes and mulberries cast before Antiochus's elephants in the book of Maccabees.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
2  Cease to madden me and thyself alike with plaints.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
3  No bitter meanness now shall sicken his baby heart till it die a living death, no taunt shall madden his happy boyhood.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XI
4  She knew he was teasing but, as always, his teasing maddened her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Upstairs she could hear Prissy galloping about like a wild animal and the sound maddened her, for she was galloping just as aimlessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
7  The sight maddened Duncan to desperation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
8  She was spared the sin of such a prayer for, maddened at his disappointment, and excited at the sight of blood, the Huron mercifully drove his tomahawk into her own brain.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
9  On a slope to the left there was a long row of guns, gruff and maddened, denouncing the enemy, who, down through the woods, were forming for another attack in the pitiless monotony of conflicts.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
10  And it maddened him to see, as he thought he saw, that Becky Thatcher never once suspected that he was even in the land of the living.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  They fled to the other end of the court like a herd of cattle maddened by the gadfly in early summer when the days are at their longest.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXII
12  I suppose it was the unexpected nature of my loss that maddened me.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
13  His forehead was throbbing with maddened nerves, and he felt wildly excited, but his manner as he bent over his hostess's hand was as easy and graceful as ever.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
14  He maddened me particularly when he read aloud the psalms to himself behind his partition.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VIII
15  Frank, Pitty and the servants bore her outbursts with maddening kindness, attributing her bad disposition to her pregnancy, never realizing the true cause.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  It may madden me if she will be chosen instead of me.
2  He was maddened by the pain and jumped out of the window.
3  Like Don Draper, TV's unflappable ad man, the universe is smooth, really smooth – and maddeningly inscrutable about its past.