How to use "mad" in a sentence

The joy, the moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits

The police believed that Druitt went mad after the murder of Mary Kelly and committed suicide

The boy, suddenly afraid of the mad, fierce look in Valjean's eyes, turned and ran.

Champmathieu went home in a state of total confusion, thinking all men mad and understanding nothing of what had happened.

'I'm going mad,' he thought, as he walked home.

Finally he left the Gardens in the mad hope of seeing her in the street, but instead he met Enjolras, who invited him to a meal.

There are other moments when I think I'm a little mad

Marius left the garden and, mad with grief at losing Cosette, walked towards the sound of drums and gunfire in the centre of the city

What kind of man are you? Are you mad? But it makes no difference

He's a bit mad, but he won't hurt you

And those holes were mad with something sharp.'

"Don't get mad at me, okay? We both want the same thing - a home life, a good family life

Computer-controlled designs ebbed and flowed, a riotous and mad - but curiously beautiful - excess of energy consumption.

Suddenly it seemed to her that she had done a mad, stupid thing when she'd hidden away like a nun for two years

Helene was so calm during the investigation that the doctors finally decided she was mad (something I had for a long time thought the only possible solution), so there was no trial

She never tried to defend herself and even got quite annoyed when she realized people thought she was mad

This of course was considered proof that she was mad

'Do you believe she is really mad?'

Either he had gone mad, or else he had a reason for letting his wife kill him in such a strange and terrible way.

Was she really mad, or was she pretending again? 'Tell me everything, Helene,' I said

He looked like a mad man

And if a third person claims to have done this murder, I shall go mad.'

As we left, Melchett said, 'If she's gone to confess to the murder, too, I really shall go mad.'

'You once said that you would go mad if anyone else confessed to the crime.'

I really think that for a moment we thought she had gone mad

'Mad - quite mad,' Melchett whispered to me.

The rest of the time he just talked to himself, and I began to realize that he had gone completely mad.

A mad idea came to me

But it can't be the same man! I must be going mad! Ever since I saw the similarity between Miss Fairlie and the woman in white, I've connected them in my mind

Why should he listen to a mad woman? I told him that Anne was even more confused than before; she now believed she was Lady Glyde