How To Use Bedlam In A Sentence
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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
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It will be a fast and furious derby, absolute bedlam, and there could be a red card.
Times, Sunday Times
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Up on the sidewalks, New York was a confusing bedlam of sights and sounds.
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The tranquil sounds of nature had been replaced by the familiar cries of bedlam and chaos.
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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
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From an uncertain corner in another part of the pub, there was a babble of bedlam.
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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.
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What I saw was bedlam and someone could easily have been hurt,’ he said.
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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.
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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
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Nearby, Helen flickered back into vision, her face terrified as she surveyed the bedlam which had erupted.
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In that seventy-two hours he raved like a bedlamite, unsubdued by the tranquilizers his doctors gave him.
EVERVILLE
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Once, people were shut up in bedlams - usually indefinitely and in terrible conditions.
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I like the round shapes: the couch, the bedlamp, the bottle, the tabe … And I was quite suprised and amazed about the window with his kind of diamond shaped glasses.
Swedish Inspiration – White Apartment in Goteborg
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I waded through the taxi-park bedlam into a matatu, and was squashed up on all sides by strangely comforting fat hips, warm arms, moist breaths.
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When the bomb exploded, there was bedlam.
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The station became a scene of bedlam as if often does, with its small confines causing waiting outbound passengers to be in the way of arriving passengers.
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`With you traipsing around behind me like a petrified looby, I suspect they took me for a Bedlamite, or worse.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Back stage was bedlam with singers tuning their voices, make-up artists plying their trade and a lady ironing all the costumes.
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Predictably today was utter bedlam at work and, apart from a depressing and slightly embarrassing midday chat with the boss about our team's workload, things went entirely as expected.
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In the void imbroglios of Chaos only, and realms of Bedlam, does some shadow of it hover, to bewilder and bemock the poor inhabitants _there.
Past and Present
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The crowd went absolutely mad. It was bedlam.
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“It is a bedlamite world,” he wrote, “and the hardest thing in it is to discuss and decide as we do in War Cabinet policies which, even if successful, must bring the angel of death into many homes.”
Human Smoke
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(I told you this thing was a dilly of a stemwinder of a bedlamite bloviation.)
Patrick Sauer: What Is Resposnsible for Rihanna's Beating? Feminism!
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It spells absolute disaster and bedlam for Britain.
The Sun
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The ensuing bedlam is probably best sampled via Cope's incredible book Head On, less an autobiography than a monograph on the inadvisability of combining a sudden ascent to teenybop stardom with a diet largely comprised ofLSD: "Every day we would wake up, take acid, then ride to the studio on our imaginary horses," begins one typical anecdote.
The Teardrop Explodes: Kilimanjaro: Deluxe Edition
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This risk is, specifically, the production of a work of such overwhelming eclecticism that it turns abundance into aesthetic bedlam, largesse into graphomania.
Archive 2007-10-01
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BETTER EAT, CABE Bedlam, if you wish to keep your strength.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM
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I've just been Christmas shopping in Kingston and it's bedlam out there.
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To switch on the TV is to get instantly drawn into the bedlam of the hospital scenes, the chaos of bodies and patients on stretchers, the exchange of fire, the sheer, anxious horror of it all.
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The rooks were creating bedlam in the spinney but on the distant wind he could hear the wail of a siren.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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N.B. apologizes for H1N1 vaccination 'bedlam' health is apologizing for what he describes as the bedlam that surrounded the H1N1 vaccine rollout in October.
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And then of course from then on it was screams and hollering and people drowning and getting hit and ah, and fear it was bedlam, chaos and it took you know it took a while to to to get it all sorted out and under control
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Soviet dissidents were political heretics, and though they did not burn on the stake, they were sent to bedlams for their sins.
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The apparent disorderliness of many things in decision making has led some people to argue that there is very little order to collective choice and that it is best described as bedlam.
Rediscovering Institutions
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My long years of Experience in Bedlam, and Acquaintance with the Causes of most Distempers of the Brain & Spirit, have well-prepar'd me for such an Office.
Why did Eric Alterman stop doing Bloggingheads?
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Greenmantle will avenge the murder of his ministers, and make that bedlamite woman sorry she was born.
Greenmantle
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Up the steep, narrow lane we ran with that bedlamite crowd at our heels.
Greenmantle
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Meetings of her syndicate were bedlams of unrighteous innuendo all directed at her.
THE DISPOSSESSED
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Eventually, the ideology de-evolved into an almost completely racist bent to all football bedlam (paving the way for one of punk's personal shames, the skinheads).
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Genius in addition to and simpleton only a the step separate, they are heel bedlamite also only a separate, because the simpleton walks slower than genius, the bedlamite walks quicker than genius.
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He also complained that she was as "cross as Bedlam" to him, and "jawed" him whenever he entered the kitchen.
Oscar The Boy Who Had His Own Way
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Once, people were shut up in bedlams - usually indefinitely and in terrible conditions.
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Bedlam cowslip: the paigle, or larger kind of cowslip.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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He switched on his bedlamp and opened Wordsworth in Love.
A Guilty Thing Surprised
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Precisely the kind of person you would expect to turn homespun tranquillity into turmoil and bedlam with her very presence.
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I am a bedlamite, you are a simpleton. So, we want attach.
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In fact, Ian was merely taking cover from the bedlam he had witnessed downstairs at arrivals.
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The trick to semi-managing all this happy bedlam is to invite a few school teachers.
Christmas in the Sierra Madre mountains
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The bedlamite Bard would tell all he knew of Gabriel's plans in the world, and who knew what Gabriel's Bright Court cousins might say to that?
Music to My Sorrow
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The overspill from the A & E was packing the corridors, it was bedlam.
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In that seventy-two hours he raved like a bedlamite, unsubdued by the tranquilizers his doctors gave him.
EVERVILLE
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Cue bedlam in the stands, not to mention on the Colombia bench.
The Sun
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The girl seems delicately poised between past and present, youth and eternity, bedlam and meditation.
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In this respect, Bedlam was very ahead of its time - tackling issues (albeit within the guise of a 'chiller') that most other films of this time would only shirk from.
Irish Blogs
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At one stage the noise was like bedlam, then it was as if a magic wand had quietened everyone; a steady drift down to theatre, then it was me.
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Meetings of her syndicate were bedlams of unrighteous innuendo all directed at her.
THE DISPOSSESSED
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In the bedlam of yelling and barking he danced from one foot to the other in a brief breathless panic.
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Bedlam - one of Scotland's largest paintball operators - has scrapped the game's overtly military trappings in favour of something more akin to a 1980s sci-fi series.
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We have thousands of well-tanked people flowing (!) on to the streets of all major towns and cities at a given time of the night when there's bedlam on the streets.
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Bedlam, does some shadow of it hover, to bewilder and bemock the poor inhabitants _there_.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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Left to herself, Saxon worked with frantic haste, assuming the calm she did not possess, but which she must impart to the screaming bedlamite upon the floor.
CHAPTER XIX
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The classroom erupted into bedlam whenever Miss Simpson left for longer than a minute.
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Finally, I drove eastwards towards Sheppey, past Funton Creek, where reptilian glasswort plants replenish seed-stocks for hungry wildfowl, to Bedlam's Bottom to enjoy a glowing sunset.
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Other bands competing are Bedlam, local funksters Khaki Marquee and the all-female trio Proem - a surprise addition to this year's final in that the band plays emotive and eerie music, a world away from that of the other bands.
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The room soon turned to bedlam as the voices of protest were countered by other delegates who argued that the debate should be allowed to continue, while other bemused bystanders tried to work out the plot.
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Matthew, and Thomas, and the still more familiar Jack and Jockey; and even with a few words of Hebrew origin, such as alleluia, balm, bedlam, camel, cider, and sabbath.
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
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Mr Howard said: ‘The work has to be undertaken for safety reasons alone, but we have to make sure we alleviate problems for others, otherwise it's going to be absolutely bedlam.’
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Cutting to the Chase - film reviews and news from Oklahoma firedoglake - where "bedlam is dreaming of rain
March 2005
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Backstage proper I had expected something approaching theatrical Bedlam.
Times, Sunday Times
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After Colleen claims that Joy tried to sabotage her chances of winning, the meeting turns into bedlam (much to everyone's amusement).
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In one asylum in London, St. Mary's of Bethlehem Hospital - form which the word bedlam is derived - the public could buy tickets to observe the antics of the inmates, much as we would pay to see a circus sideshow or animals at the zoo.
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It was bedlam at the football ground after the match was suspended.
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Every man set to work for himself, and it was again bedlam broke loose as at the other plantation.
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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The crowd went absolutely mad. It was bedlam.
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“It is a bedlamite world”: Menzies, Dark and Hurrying Days, p.
Human Smoke
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In a now familiar picture of bedlam, spectators and courtroom staff fled in terror and police descended in force upon the prisoners.
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Nearly ten years on I find myself lending a hand to get that crazed, giggling bedlamite back in the saddle.
Jayme Lynn Blaschke's Gibberish
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If you ever get the chance I heartly recommend Bedlam South by Mark Grisham.
Within the Hollow Crown, by Margaret Campbell Barnes. Book review
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His homestead bungalow of bedlam becomes more of a fixer-upper as the years stroll by.
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Cue bedlam in the stands and a funky chicken celebration from Nolan.
The Sun
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There are many and it is bedlam - speeding ambulances and torn flesh.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cue bedlam inside the Istanbul stadium.
The Sun
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There was instant bedlam, with members standing throughout the auditorium shouting for the floor.
Christianity Today
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After weeks of upheaval caused by the Lovers Lane shut off, the surprise two week closure of Leigh Road, the main arterial road from Leigh to Atherton on Monday, caused bedlam.
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They have been consulting on what to do with those who have severe personality disorders and they seem set to turn back the clock a century by locking them up in Bedlams and throwing away the key.
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Cue bedlam in the stands and relief for Brown.
The Sun
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The taut dialogue raises a squirming smorgasbord of questions about the potential for bedlam when our profound individual differences are ignored.
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Bethlem's name gave rise to the word bedlam, and comes from a shortened version of St Mary Bethlehem, the name of one of the oldest asylums in the western world.
From Bethlem to Bedlam
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The taut dialogue raises a squirming smorgasbord of questions about the potential for bedlam when our profound individual differences are ignored.
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The utter silence of a warrior, in the bedlam of a battlefield.
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I was greeted by sheer bedlam in the winner 's enclosure.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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She quickly turned back to the bedlam, which, while still loud and raucous, still seemed somehow subdued.
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All this beneath a canopy of sulphur and a bedlam of sounds, like confusion confounded.