bedlam

How To Use bedlam In A Sentence

• My own interest in Bethlem and madness came from a number of sources; the onomatopoeic clangour of the word Bedlam itself, suggesting an infernal din, like a bedstead falling downstairs, somehow echoed in the vast Victorian asylum near my childhood home, and its noisy but harmless residents, who occasionally spilled out into the streets, weeping and shouting. Bedlam
• It will be a fast and furious derby, absolute bedlam, and there could be a red card. Times, Sunday Times
• Up on the sidewalks, New York was a confusing bedlam of sights and sounds.
• The tranquil sounds of nature had been replaced by the familiar cries of bedlam and chaos.
• And when, at last, our guides and servants, mounting to pinnacles and jutting points, and many a frieze and coigne of vantage, placed blue lights on them all, and at the word illuminated all together, there was redoubled bedlam in that abode of Hecate, and the eternal calm of the Boodh became awful. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859
• From an uncertain corner in another part of the pub, there was a babble of bedlam.
• As with the twisted form in ‘Bedlam in a Bottle’, the printed figures appear like cut-outs, the clothes stiff and angular like funeral weeds in black taffeta.
• What I saw was bedlam and someone could easily have been hurt,’ he said.
• But somehow none of them expected that to happen, not after all the confused shouting and general bedlam which had followed those predawn bugle calls.
• Foster's Slouching Towards Bedlam can also be played on the web using a different technology it's a Java applet, which is 100% COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from JavaScript; the similar names are just one of those dumb marketing decisions people made every day in the nineties. Dear Super Mathrats cont'd