maddening

Example Sentences

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The museum’s new building, designed by Peter Zumthor, is as audacious in its conception as it is maddening to navigate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

Gates has assembled a stimulating, illuminating, maddening, saddening, but often inspiring, story of their relations with the world and one another.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

Potts was asked to bowl one more futile spell of bouncers, with the maddening Smith playing tennis-style smashes and signalling a wide to the umpires.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

It’s time to break the maddening cycle by getting back to basics, heading into the new year.

From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025

And still we were not allowed to sit: there was a last wait while the matron with maddening deliberateness checked off our documents against a list.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom