INSANITY in a Sentence

Learn INSANITY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

67 example sentences for INSANITY, such as:

1. It was all the purest insanity.
2. His love was a sort of insanity.
3. He advised his client to plead insanity.
4. In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.
5. He has an insane desire to finish that foolish thing.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSANITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
insanity
 n.  madness; craziness; mental illness or derangement; extreme foolishness; folly
Classic Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  The physician was at first inclined to ascribe this sudden and violent emotion to the effects of insanity; and, adhering to his original purpose, began once again to handle his implements.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
3  His love was a sort of insanity.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
4  Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of the great desert tracts in his consciousness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
5  But she had that queer sort of bossiness, endless assertion of her own will, which is one of the signs of insanity in modern woman.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  A kind of terror filled her sometimes, a terror of the incipient insanity of the whole civilized species.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  His very intensity and acumen in the affairs of the pits seemed like a manifestation of madness to her, his very inspirations were the inspirations of insanity.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
8  This state of falsity had now brought on that crisis of falsity and dislocation, hysteria, which is a form of insanity.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
9  He behaved perfectly politely during the meal and kept a polite sort of conversation going: but it seemed all touched with insanity.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
10  To think of him as Miss Crawford might be justified in thinking, would in her be insanity.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  It was all the purest insanity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  If she had made the great sacrifice, at least she expected gratitude and recognition, Vida raged, while her conscious schoolroom mind fussily begged her to control this insanity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  They engaged him; but straightway upon the ship's getting out of sight of land, his insanity broke out in a freshet.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
14  There was a gleam of something akin to insanity in her full, intense eyes.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
15  This influence had become more harassing and decided, since partial insanity had given a strange, weird, unsettled cast to all her words and language.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
Example Sentence:
1  I hope the country is finally turning a corner where common sense will once again prevail over the insanity of the last 30 years.
2  He tried to simulate insanity in order to avoid punishment for his crime.
3  She's never ever getting out of jail unless she can prove temporary insanity, which is highly unlikely given her actions.
4  To Horace, the satirist is a refined man who sees stupidity and insanity everywhere, but is moved to gentle laughter rather than to rage.
5  He advised his client to plead insanity.
6  The legal concept of insanity is of a different nature from the medical.
7  The court acquitted Campbell on the grounds of temporary insanity.
8  In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.
9  And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
10  For the last ten years of his life he was clinically insane.
11  Some people simply can't take it and they just go insane.
12  He has an insane desire to finish that foolish thing.
13  Only an insane person could perpetrate such a horrible crime.