MANIA in a Sentence

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For MANIA, below is one of 23 sentences:
If so, we must look out for squalls, for a strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous.

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 Meanings and Examples of MANIA
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mania
 n.  craze; madness; an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  It almost seems as though the captain had been seized with some kind of mania before he had got well into blue water, and that this had developed persistently throughout the voyage.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  The attendant thinks it is some sudden form of religious mania which has seized him.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  If so, we must look out for squalls, for a strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  It looks like religious mania, and he will soon think that he himself is God.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  Her name was Victoria, and she had a perfect mania for going to church.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
6  He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
7  After this Amy subsided, till a mania for sketching from nature set her to haunting river, field, and wood, for picturesque studies, and sighing for ruins to copy.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
8  While the cooking mania lasted she went through Mrs. Cornelius's Receipt Book as if it were a mathematical exercise, working out the problems with patience and care.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
9  A stout Frenchman, who knew the Emperor, came to indulge his mania for dancing, and Lady de Jones, a British matron, adorned the scene with her little family of eight.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
10  These efforts brought forth apologies and a short halt, but the lynching mania was raged again through the past three months with unabated fury.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VI
11  As a result of this, little Stanislovas conceived a terror of the cold that was almost a mania.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
13  An examination showed she had indeed developed mania of a dangerous and permanent form.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
14  They say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though I don't feel that weakness in myself as yet, I know a little person who is very unhappy with her father.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
15  "It's all this mania for opposition," he went on.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence:
1  She had a mania for fast cars.
2  In his latter years religious mania clouded his mind.
3  This wasn't some fine print side effect of the medication; I was experiencing a full blown medication-induced mania and I was out of control.