crazy person

Example Sentences

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“As far as I can tell, a crazy person tried to break in by hammering the windows. I’m grateful to the secret service and the Cincinnati police for responding quickly.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

He insisted it's "the laugh of a crazy person."

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2024

Cohen also said prosecutors showed a document Bankman-Fried wrote to try to resolve a dispute between two colleagues only to imply that he is "some sort of crazy person."

From Reuters • Oct. 23, 2023

“But the outside world was changing, and we knew we could do more innovative work like in the West. When everyone was creating flower paintings, I was a crazy person creating abstract artworks.”

From New York Times • May 5, 2023

More astonishing, perhaps, was the fact that time travel hadn’t broken my brain; that by some miracle, I had not yet devolved into a gibbering crazy person ranting on a street corner.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs