LUNATIC in a Sentence

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30 example sentences for LUNATIC, such as:

1. And I wasn't arguing with a lunatic either.
2. from the superintendent of the lunatic asylum.
3. I am a does not contain any additives lunatic.
4. Then, you know, they clapped them away in a lunatic asylum.
5. Unconscious cerebration was doing its work, even with the lunatic.

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 Meanings and Examples of LUNATIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lunatic
 a.  insane; mad; wildly or giddily foolish
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  There are but few houses close at hand, one being a very large house only recently added to and formed into a private lunatic asylum.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  I never saw a lunatic in such a paroxysm of rage before; and I hope I shall not again.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  She knew, of course, that the place was a lunatic asylum, but I could see that she was unable to repress a shudder when we entered.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  Since I myself have been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, I cannot but notice that the sophistic tendencies of some of its inmates lean towards the errors of non causa and ignoratio elenchi.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  There was an unusual understanding of himself, which was unlike anything I had ever met with in a lunatic; and he took it for granted that his reasons would prevail with others entirely sane.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  It is a new experience to me to find a lunatic who talk philosophy, and reason so sound.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  Unconscious cerebration was doing its work, even with the lunatic.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  As we came to the door we heard the lunatic within singing gaily, as he used to do in the time which now seems so long ago.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  And I wasn't arguing with a lunatic either.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
10  At most, they would take him to the lunatic asylum as "the King of Spain" if he should go very mad.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
11  from the superintendent of the lunatic asylum.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIV
12  Only at the end of it, in front of the almshouse and the lunatic asylum, could be seen some people in white and others like them walking singly across the field shouting and gesticulating.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
13  The lunatic's solemn, gloomy face was thin and yellow, with its beard growing in uneven tufts.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
14  Jo glanced at the sheet and saw a pleasing illustration composed of a lunatic, a corpse, a villain, and a viper.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
15  Mr. Rochester flung me behind him: the lunatic sprang and grappled his throat viciously, and laid her teeth to his cheek: they struggled.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence:
1  I am a does not contain any additives lunatic.
2  This murderous lunatic could kill them both without a second thought.
3  Demands for a separate Siberia are confined for now to the lunatic fringe.
4  Then, you know, they clapped them away in a lunatic asylum.