maniacally
Example Sentences
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“I don’t think we have the luxury of picking just one and staying maniacally focused on it because it could be that you pick the wrong one and then you’re making bad decisions,” Hammack said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
Game 3 was a one-sided clunker, but Game 1, Game 2 and Game 4 all went to sudden-death OT —hockey’s equivalent of dangling you over a bridge by your shoelaces while laughing maniacally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2025
It’s as if we’re inside a pinball machine, with tiny objects orbiting around one another maniacally, wheels spinning, helmets twisting, boards whizzing by or flying into the air before crashing back down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
"Next to the vomiting, gurning, maniacally grinning Keaton, she can’t help but seem a little bland and strait-laced."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
“As a matter of fact, she does!” he replies, equally maniacally.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
