Used in a Sentence

madly

How to use madly in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for madly.

Editorial note

We rush madly to release the code ahead of schedule.

Examples8
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

in an uncontrolled manner; "she fought back madly"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of madly gathered in one view.

adverb

in an uncontrolled manner; "she fought back madly"

adverb

in an insane manner; "she behaved insanely"; "he behaves crazily when he is off his medication"; "the witch cackled madly"; "screaming dementedly"

adverb

(used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for madly.

adverb

in an uncontrolled manner; "she fought back madly"

adverb

in an insane manner; "she behaved insanely"; "he behaves crazily when he is off his medication"; "the witch cackled madly"; "screaming dementedly"

adverb

(used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous"

Example sentences

1

We rush madly to release the code ahead of schedule.

2

Do not get me started or I will start madly screaming "Where is HyperCard?

3

Each day, I thank god for all these useful idiots in SV. They're madly running a rat race to build the next social widget.

4

Reminding me of my favorite hunger hack: got into kitchen, chop onion or press garlic, toss into oil, fry. In ten seconds, I go from "dinner sounds like a hassle" to rooting through the cupboards, salivating madly.

5

Flash is ridiculous on OS X. It leaks memory like a sieve - I once left a few tabs open overnight with Flash ads and your various bits of Flash-based internet detritus, and by the time I woke up my machine was thrashing madly until I manually killed Flash.

6

That was a great move on their part - starting with a blank sheet would have been madly expensive and very slow - a working baseline engine design is a very high-dimensional optimisation problem, before you even get to cutting metal.

7

I can't help but wonder if I'll wax nostalgic one day about the unfettered access I had to general purpose computers that I could make do almost anything as the "think of the children" types of that day tut-tut about how madly dangerous it all was.

8

Well here I am a tired old 95 year old cancer cell, too tired and sore to start reproducing madly and my hosts blood chemistry is too F'ed up anyway for me to grow, so I'll just sit here in my lung cell sized recliner and watch Fox News with my host... Ah I see now after some treatment I feel I'm in the body of a healthy 25 year old and I'm absolutely bursting with energy... lets get fissioning boys, there's a new sheriff in town and we're takin' this here place over.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use madly in a sentence?

We rush madly to release the code ahead of schedule.

What does madly mean?

in an uncontrolled manner; "she fought back madly"

What part of speech is madly?

madly is commonly used as adverb.