MANIA in a Sentence
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23 example sentences for MANIA, such as:
1. She had a mania for fast cars.
2. In his latter years religious mania clouded his mind.
3. Her name was Victoria, and she had a perfect mania for going to church.
4. It looks like religious mania, and he will soon think that he himself is God.
5. The attendant thinks it is some sudden form of religious mania which has seized him.
2. In his latter years religious mania clouded his mind.
3. Her name was Victoria, and she had a perfect mania for going to church.
4. It looks like religious mania, and he will soon think that he himself is God.
5. The attendant thinks it is some sudden form of religious mania which has seized him.
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Meanings and Examples of MANIA
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mania
n. a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
n. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 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.
2 The attendant thinks it is some sudden form of religious mania which has seized him.
3 If so, we must look out for squalls, for a strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous.
4 It looks like religious mania, and he will soon think that he himself is God.
5 Her name was Victoria, and she had a perfect mania for going to church.
6 He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth.
7 After this Amy subsided, till a mania for sketching from nature set her to haunting river, field, and wood, for picturesque studies, and sighing for ruins to copy.
8 While the cooking mania lasted she went through Mrs. Cornelius's Receipt Book as if it were a mathematical exercise, working out the problems with patience and care.
9 A stout Frenchman, who knew the Emperor, came to indulge his mania for dancing, and Lady de Jones, a British matron, adorned the scene with her little family of eight.
10 These efforts brought forth apologies and a short halt, but the lynching mania was raged again through the past three months with unabated fury.
11 As a result of this, little Stanislovas conceived a terror of the cold that was almost a mania.
12 For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
Context Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
13 An examination showed she had indeed developed mania of a dangerous and permanent form.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
Context Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
14 They say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though I don't feel that weakness in myself as yet, I know a little person who is very unhappy with her father.
15 "It's all this mania for opposition," he went on.
Example Sentence:
1 She had a mania for fast cars.
2 In his latter years religious mania clouded his mind.
3 This wasn't some fine print side effect of the medication; I was experiencing a full blown medication-induced mania and I was out of control.