go mad
Example Sentences
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And other times you'd be on fire and playing really well and he'd come in and go mad over one little thing, just to keep you on your toes.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
No matter how many Lady Macbeths I see go mad, no matter how many Hamlets I watch have existential crises, I am always game for new productions of Shakespeare.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022
“If we didn’t, we’d go mad with existentialist terror.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2022
Thousands of years before the show begins, magic was corrupted, tainting the source of power such that any man who tried to use it would go mad.
From The Verge • Nov. 16, 2021
My father says, Do they take her away because she’s gone mad baking bread or does she go mad baking bread because they’re taking her away?
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
