Sample Sentences for

mania

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

World Cup mania has spread across the continent.

It was the most irrational financial bubble since Tulip Mania.

"You have a mania for simplifying everything," answered the Englishman, irritated.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

Today the crowd has a new kind of energy, a last day mania.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

Used to his manias, Aureliano paid no attention to him.†  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967

Frindle-mania was over.  (source) Andrew Clements, Frindle, 1996

His manias make a startling combination.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

He came home with a mania for running.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

The Admiral knows that claiming responsibility for Emby's absence would play right into the mania that Roland is creating.  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

That mania, to start with, for doing things in private.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

The attendant thinks it is some sudden form of religious mania which has seized him.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

Everyone demented with the mania of owning things.  (source) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

And that was the Bay Bridge over his right shoulder, flashing a million cars a minute that never heard of Marvin Lundy and his baseball mania.  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

Impulsive acts accompanying mania often lead to problems.

But Dad's mania for the machine had carried him beyond the reach of reason.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

As December progressed, the Bird's mania deepened.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Religious mania-thinks she's God's instrument, something of that kind!  (source) Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, 1939

It almost seems as though the captain had been seized with some kind of mania before he had got well into blue water, and that this had developed persistently throughout the voyage.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

There are a lot of names: depression, catatonia, mania, anxiety, agitation.  (source) Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted, 1993

For some reason — impending mania, perhaps — this really irritated me.  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse, 2007

And it reads like rage growing to mania!  (source) H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, 1897

But they immediately drew the deduction that the crime could only have been committed through temporary mental derangement, through homicidal mania, without object or the pursuit of gain.  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, 1866

...this would seem to qualify them to know something about those intricacies involved in the question of moral responsibility; whether in a given case, say, the crime proceeded from mania in the brain or rabies of the heart.  (source) Herman Melville, Billy Budd, 1924

But apart from temporary aberration, the doctor diagnosed mania, which premised, in his words, to lead to complete insanity in the future.  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

I reached for some explanation and strange words came to mind, words I'd learned only minutes before: paranoia, mania, delusions of grandeur and persecution.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

"Religious mania, that's the ticket…." "It's crazy-everything's crazy."  (source) Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, 1939