madly
Example Sentences
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“We never stopped believing that somewhere out there, in some stranger’s backyard, our mother’s rosebush was blossoming madly, wildly, pressing one perfect red flower after another out into the late afternoon light.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
On the eve of the Civil War, the Columbian Register lamented the growing likelihood of “the stars of our political firmament” being “torn from their orbits, and plunging madly about, or tilting one the other.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
His hyperactivity for much of the day - leaping about his technical area and gesturing madly in the manner of a man at a rave - had gone.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025
Frank Gehrys Walt Disney Concert Hall is a powerful and madly exuberant work.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
A soldier was already moving through the room throwing out bags of what he called katapan to eat, and everybody scrambled madly.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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