Madhouse

//ˈmædˌhaʊs//

"Madhouse" in a Sentence (13 examples)

It's a regular madhouse here.

This place is like a madhouse!

It's not a madhouse. It's a clinic for the mentally unstable.

Tom landed in a madhouse.

"It’s a madhouse,” said Joan Walsh of Massachusetts, who cut her Florentine tour short with her husband, David Sibley, after the virus reportedly had infected more than 650 people and killed 17 as of late afternoon Thursday.

The world is a madhouse.

"Where's my pen got to again? Why have we always got to look for everything in this madhouse?" "If you'd put it in the same place all the time, you wouldn't have to look for it." "Thanks for your words of wisdom, but they're no help to me now – ah, there it is!"

It was a madhouse!

If a reality show is made about a madhouse, then it is called Parliament.

The palace, the night-cellar, the jail, the madhouse: the chambers of birth and death, of health and sickness, the rigid face of the corpse and the calm sleep of the child: midnight was upon them all.

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The king experienced his first attack in autumn 1788, and as his condition worsened and the physicians-in-ordinary proved unable to cope or cure, the Reverend Dr Francis Willis (1717–1807), a clergyman doctor who ran a madhouse in Lincolnshire, was called in.

He is almost a tourist of his own book. There is a hint of the fad a couple of centuries ago for visiting madhouses in search of the exotic.

This taut, soldierly, professional story is something of a stranger among American novels about war making. Angry civilians have writ ten most of the best fiction on the subject, from “Three Soldiers” through “Catch‐22,” to make the point (with a good deal of literary overkill) that wars are mass insanity and that armies are madhouses.

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