Sentence examples for acquired mad from inspiring English sources

Then it acquired "Mad Men"—a show that had been pitched to HBO and turned down.

The Coca-Cola Company said yesterday that it had acquired Mad River Traders Inc., a small tea, juice and soft drink company for undisclosed terms.

In the end, the incumbents were able to absorb many of the upstarts without much of a fight: Coca-Cola acquired Mad River, PepsiCo took over Gatorade, and Cadbury Schweppes bought Snapple.

Starting in the 1990s, when people began to die of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Diseacquireduired from "mad" cows, some epidemiologists argued that hundreds of thousands of Britons would die of the disease every year.

In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.

Instead, it was some of the Jets' new faces, acquired in a mad off-season spree to prepare for games like this, that made the biggest plays — the touchdowns by Tomlinson and two huge receptions by Braylon Edwards.

The game began in 1865, at Harrow School, in London, and proliferated throughout the British Empire, acquiring a mad-dogs-and-Englishmen burnish as it spread.

Don't get mad.

Get mad.

They get mad.

How can I get mad?