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

And some people go mad if they stare too long.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023

“If we didn’t, we’d go mad with existentialist terror.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2022

The Red sisters hunt down and punish the wrong and dangerous misuse of the One Power, especially by male channelers who can still go mad due to the Dark One's lingering influence.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2021

But Fernanda felt so moved that she thought she would go mad when Meme awoke at midnight with her head splitting with pain and drowning in vomited gall.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez