Sentence examples for madhouse from inspiring English sources

The word "madhouse" can be used in written English
It is used to describe a place that is chaotic and frenetic. For example, "The shopping mall was a madhouse on the day before Christmas."

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madhouse

noun

A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum

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If NSW are to wrest the State of Origin trophy away from Queensland they will have to win at least one of the series' two games (either Origin 1 or 3) at Lang Park, a hate-filled, spittle-flecked, XXXX-soaked madhouse whose Maroon-hued occupants will never tire of their team's hegemony.

Carlyle was already famous through Trainspotting and the TV series Hamish Macbeth, but The Full Monty has catapulted him into a media madhouse.

The group's website has a video of her saying "For the last four years it seemed to me that I live in a madhouse".

If it gets its way as it largely will the madhouse will become loonier still.The commission objects to transfer fees as such.

Yet there is an element of the madhouse in that explanation too.

It portrays a run-down mental hospital on the Russian-Chechen border, swept into the larger madhouse of war.

Inducing an artificial recession in order to meet the inflation criteria would be the "economics of the madhouse", according to Willem Buiter, a former chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development now at the London School of Economics.There is another option: to fiddle the figures, perhaps by cutting fuel taxes to depress inflation.

Gap: A madhouse.

Banana Republic: a more refined Gap madhouse.

But even for well-disciplined and eager listeners there is the problem of quantity: they must cope as best they can with what Langer has called "the madhouse of too much art".

To fill the void left by the cessation of the religious charities, the city organized poor relief in 1547, providing grain in times of scarcity and promoting the foundation or reconstitution of the five royal hospitals: St. Bartholomew's, Christ's, Bethlehem (the madhouse known as Bedlam), St. Thomas's, and Bridewell.

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