MANIACAL in a Sentence

Learn MANIACAL 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.

For MANIACAL, below is one of 19 sentences:
Though Mr. Rochester had locked his mad wife in the attic, he could still hear her maniacal laughter echoing throughout the house.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of MANIACAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
maniacal
 a.  wildly disordered; excessive enthusiasm or excitement; insane
Classic Sentence:
1  An officer on a bounding horse made maniacal motions with his arms.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
2  And it was getting worse, really maniacal.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
3  All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called Jolllly.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
4  His father's whistle, his mother's mutterings, the screech of an unseen maniac were to him now so many voices offending and threatening to humble the pride of his youth.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  The maniac bellowed: she parted her shaggy locks from her visage, and gazed wildly at her visitors.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  You may take the maniac with you to England; confine her with due attendance and precautions at Thornfield: then travel yourself to what clime you will, and form what new tie you like.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  In a swirl of flakes which scratched at their eyes like a maniac darkness, he unbuckled the harness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  In the cell next to him was a drunken wife-beater and in the one beyond a yelling maniac.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
11  The doctor most kindly took charge of me, and it was well he did so, for I had a fit in the station, and before we reached home I was practically a raving maniac.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
12  Yes, my dear Monsieur Pierre, I owe you a fine votive candle for saving me from that maniac.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIX
13  She traversed her chamber with the excitement of a furious maniac or of a tigress shut up in an iron cage.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 58 ESCAPE
14  And always in their swift and deadly rushes to and fro the men screamed and yelled like maniacs.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
Example Sentence:
1  Though Mr. Rochester had locked his mad wife in the attic, he could still hear her maniacal laughter echoing throughout the house.
2  He was almost maniacal in his pursuit of sporting records.
3  You may take the maniac with you to England; confine her with due attendance and precautions at Thornfield.
4  The doctor's words pained me, but I deserved it, and it wasn't the first time I'd been called maniac depressive by a doctor.
5  He leapt into the car and drove like a maniac to the hospital.