How To Use Madly In A Sentence

I was madly scrambling into my drysuit while Bill got the details from the divers, who had been drifting with this group for an hour or so.
The first, innocuous shower stroked the lake's surface but, when the wind came up, the loons began to call madly.
Not for a minute had she believed fate would be so amenable as to arrange for him to fall madly in love with her. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
Now I'm flirting madly with the plumber who is installing our new bathroom. The Sun
I finned madly for the surface, and was told off very severely for making an ascent like a pricked balloon.

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Madly in love with Bartlett is tough nightclub hostess "Panama" Smith, excellently played by the young actress.
I took snapshots of individual works and of details and became madly obsessed with the paintings.
A second later, he broke the surface, coughing madly, getting as much water as air. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
He'd take her into his arms, confess that he was madly in love with her and kiss her passionately.
A woman with womanliness takes pleasure in studying, reading papers and surfing internet often, but she doesn't madly cling to fashion magzine and the gossip news.
Polly Vernon measures out her relationships in three-minute songbites and asks if there's a compromise between resolutely Rock and completely, madly Pop
A hairdresser is madly in love with her, but the open-handed British soldiers in the city also tempt her. Naguib Mahfouz – The Son of Two Civilizations
Dancers, madly dancing; silhouetted druidic gestures; pale ass-cleft of hippie maiden, vibrant in the dusk. Woodstock Nation
I thought we were madly in love with one another. The Sun
It should be something real thrilly, so the people will rush madly to all the bookstores to buy it. Jean of the Lazy A
It doesn't stop him later that evening from capering madly around the stage, all jack-in-a-box bouncing and extravagant semaphore gestures.
I was madly in love with her and I was pretty sure she was in love with me.
I have been madly, passionately in love with women that I didn't like as much as Barbara, but I was not _in love_ with her. The Emerald Triangle
Ours soon found themselves grounded around the dining room table, scribbling madly on a draft design blueprint.
Meanwhile, klutzy, overemotional Simone was sobbing madly, because she had gotten herself caught in the folding chair.
I fell madly in love with the country and its people.
Her eyes squinted madly, trying to make out the manner of the commotion around them.
I'm not interested in stupid, insipid men who flower me with ridiculous comments in the hope that I'll fall madly in love with them.
I ran away as soon as I could move; I ran madly from the house. The Filigree Ball
Girls were always falling madly in love with him, but he didn't seem to care.
But not the villagers who rush around madly in Dickensian mode. Times, Sunday Times
The novel's heroine, however, is so determined to have her day in church that when her lacklustre fiancé dumps her with six weeks to spare she madly decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway.
Nonetheless, for all the protestations of the convinced minority, only a certain kind of mind can make the leap of faith to truly, madly, deeply believe in UFOs.
His foot was throbbing madly, but he gave the door another kick, muttering more curses under his breath.
The mood has switched to that of a sleepover, as she lets me try on her shoes and stomp about in them madly. Times, Sunday Times
Going madly off into a fading teevee breakdown, a degenerating of colors to boil down to utter depressing greys, greys of all shades, deepening into the blankest of the most depressing color there is, that which is totally empty of color, the color of tears. From the Shambles
On Valentines Day I heard a band playing that chanky-chank mixtec music, and firecrackers going off, and the bells ringing madly at the church around the corner – It was a neighborhood fiesta. Being in Oaxaca in February
Any theatre which presents a drama about poker lays itself open to critics punning madly about it ‘taking a gamble’ or ‘playing for high stakes’.
It was not until she understood this applause, and saw Silverstein half out of his seat and intensely, madly happy, and heard the "Oh, you, Joe's!" from many throats, that she realized that instead of being cruelly punished he was acquitting himself well. Chapter 4
Deanna could make out the tiny red pinpricks of fighters and missiles swarming toward the two ships as they accelerated madly to attempt an escape.
This is a madly short-sighted view of the worth and value of long-term relationships. Times, Sunday Times
Because she then realized that her husband was madly in love with another woman, and that his love was reciprocated.
Alex fired madly at Gabriel's body, piercing his torso, legs, and arms multiple times.
What was left of the basement shook madly as the two vampires duked it out. My Fair Succubi
If I plant subliminal ideas in his developing mind he will no doubt fall madly in love with me in the present.
Both of the beauty queens are from Varna and are madly in love with the natural beauty of the place.
The curtains billowed madly as the wind caught them.
Victorian damsels madly anticipate his imminent arrival.
There are several false alarms, but eventually his dogs scrabble madly at the base of a tree.
She was rushing around madly looking for her bag.
He gibbered madly and his muscles spasmed, and he sunk to his knees in the muddy trench, his heart pumping his blood out into the soil.
Shrill and soft old Autumnal winds blow and we are tucked below the shallow soil where seeds spring up and wither quickly flirting madly.
This was a slip of the brain on our part for which we are truly, madly deeply sorry.
It seemed to me that when he had soared up towards the ever vanishing Ideal, he reached a point whereat he turned in disgust and hurled himself madly back to the dungiest part of this dungy earth. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
The wretch simply ran madly from his hovel and took chase through his so-called garden.
She is madly in love with Oscar, who regards her as his best pal and nothing more.
He swore, scrab-bled at the hard stone with his nails, pushed madly against it with his shoulder ... The Dark Queen
I fell madly in love with the pale pink rose-pattern carpet and matching curtains in my room.
Among the gentlemen who were her courtiers there was much talk of the fashionable rake Sir John Oxon, who, having appeared at her birthnight supper, had become madly enamoured of her, and had stayed in the country at Eldershawe Park and laid siege to her with all his forces and with much fervour of feeling besides. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
Sometimes oil-based muffins, because they have not been beaten madly, have to rely on extra baking powder or bicarbonate of soda for a good rise, which can leave a metallic taste in the mouth.
The unladen dyheli went over first, with Hashi paddling madly beside them. Elephant in the City
The unit seized up with rattles and clanks, vibrating madly, falling supine upon the ground.
Walking seemed to be relaxing him slightly, for he could no longer feel his heart beating madly in his chest and the noisome feeling in his stomach had subsided.
Though the pair are still madly in love, they admit their age gap means they do have different interests. The Sun
Infuriated by this, the latter plunged left and right, laying about madly with his club.
He stared unbelievingly through the windshield at the rocks bouncing madly on the hood and the growing profusion of small dents on the surface of the metal.
You'll notice that whee! it keeps spinning around madly.
The dog ran out with its tail wagging madly.
It is true that the biotech industry is restructuring madly.
She was rushing around madly trying to put out the fire.
At this, he and his apprentice begin chuckling madly. The cable guy
Hands wave madly in the air as the first grinding guitar riff blasts through the speakers.
An absolutely auspicious week for some serious concentrating on what it is you most truly madly deeply want this year.
On the contrary "-- he heard, as if somebody else had perpetrated it, the horrible repetition --" I mean to say -- "His brain fought for another phrase madly and in vain. Mr. Waddington of Wyck
Note, It is not strange if those that begin foolishly end madly; for an ungoverned tongue, the more liberty is allowed, grows the more violent. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
We drove off at high speed, over sand dunes that caused the vehicle to bounce madly up and down. Times, Sunday Times
I recommend you have a day visiting this world famous Space Centre even if the fish are biting madly.
Tufts of balding, meager dun hair sprouted out from the man's scalp in every possible direction like a windblown bush, followed by wide, tangled eyebrows and small, beady, madly darting eyes which bulged from within a round, bloated face.
Wooley constantly runs from one end of the stage to the other, madly working the washboards, milking the audience's applause.
He saw the weathervane spinning madly in the powerful breeze.
At this point I'm chuckling madly and can't remember my original question, if there was one.
The curtains billowed madly as the wind caught them.
He easily buys into the fact that this beautiful, generous girl would fall madly in love with him - a two-bit con - because none of the other men in the world are good enough for her
Perennial geraniums live forever, are easy to grow from seed and once established, spread and self-seed as madly as chickweed.
The curtains billowed madly as the wind caught them.
Denouncing unchaste women, Hamlet madly advises Ophelia to become a celibate nun.
It is this concrete fact, this reality, which gives the parachuting artificial limbs, the madly scurrying amputees, its terrifying metaphoric power.
The mood has switched to that of a sleepover, as she lets me try on her shoes and stomp about in them madly. Times, Sunday Times
I am madly in love with composing for orchestra and hope to die writing an orchestral piece!
But the hotter hydrogen in the chromosphere and corona above it is madly emitting at the same wavelength.
Yet I was madly in love with a boy who collected the fees for deckchairs on the beach.
Those who were decoyed into these staterooms endured them with disgust while the boat was at anchor; but when the paddle-wheels began to revolve, and dismal din of clang and bang and whirr came down about their ears, and threatened to unroof the fortress of the brain, why, then they fled madly, precipitately, leaving their clothes mostly behind them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859
Sometimes decision-makers are excessively cautious, at other times they are madly reckless.
Sorrow and rage, shame, and his honors pride, Choking his soule, madly compeld him raue, Vntil his rage with vigor did confound His heauie hart; and left him in a swound. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Apparently, likelihood stray airborne microorganisms finding free food and reproducing madly is pretty small. The Great Butter vs. Margarine “Rot-off”
The oscillations increased to 90 degrees, the flight films showing the vehicle swinging madly from side to side.
They're tweeting madly from the negotiation (technically called the 18th session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights) publishing editorials on the Huffington Post, etc. Archive 2009-05-01
Now I'm flirting madly with the plumber who is installing our new bathroom. The Sun
Even now I am smiling madly, like a Cheshire cat.
Then I ran about the house, madly closing all the windows.
She was devoted to him, loyal to him, but she no longer loved him madly. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
Time passes again, the same clock hands spin madly, the same bells ring and the same chimes chime.
And is" -- she struggled at the word madly -- "is she pure? The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel
Only Ebie Fairrish, struck to the heart by the inconstancy of Jess, removed at the November term back again to the "laigh end" of the parish, and there plunged madly into flirtations with several of his old sweethearts. The Lilac Sunbonnet
I finned madly for the surface, and was told off very severely for making an ascent like a pricked balloon.
Furthermore, she seemed to have it all, intelligence, friends, and a cute boyfriend who seemed to be madly in love with her.
We meet Cat, still madly in love with her husband who has just left her for a younger woman. The Sun
She didn't hear the footsteps madly raging towards her, or the ferocious bellow of defiance that should have greeted her ears.
The programme ‘India's Most Wanted ’, which Anju anchored, was as much her idea as mine and we were madly in love with it.
Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with.
Bernie continued madly thwacking my back with his hand, while waving the other in the air and shrieking, ‘She's alive!’
The long now-walled-in driveway, up and down which I used to cycle madly, looked dark and narrow and hemmed in as a gully leading into a ghetto.
He fetched up for a moment at a drawing easel, his reiterant cry checked on his lips, and threw a laugh of recognition and appreciation at the sketch, just outlined, of an awkward, big-boned, knobby, weanling colt caught in the act of madly whinneying for its mother. CHAPTER IX
Time passes again, the same clock hands spin madly, the same bells ring and the same chimes chime.
My affairs, meanwhile, at the play-table went on not unprosperously, and I was just on the point of marrying the widow Cornu (we were at Brussels by this time, and the poor soul was madly in love with me,) when the Barry Lyndon
Ernest was madly impatient to be out in the world and doing, for our ill-fated First Revolt, that had miscarried in the Chicago Commune, was ripening fast. Chapter 21: The Roaring Abysmal Beast
I'd sit behind Brian Bendis and Ed Brubaker with a cattle prod, and every time they turn in two issues of script, I'd force them to distill them down to one pacier script, all the while cackling madly and screaming, "Strunk and White say 'Omit Needless Words', b****es!" as I zap them in very uncomfortable places. Name Some I’ds of Your Own! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Both Obama and comedian Seth Meyers went to town on him, and the surrounding journalists guffawed and applauded madly. Eric Alterman: Think Again: The Washington Post, Trumped
It seeds madly and sprouts from the least little bit of root left in the ground.
The truly demented can enter the simulation sitting astride a missile madly arching toward its target.
He leaped to his feet, cursing madly and staring around with wild eyes.
The two released Shala men, clad in festal attire that had been brought for the purpose, and already fully armed, ran about madly embracing all their friends. High Albania
I wasn't madly keen on the upholstery but the padding was effective and molded to my back quickly.
she was madly in love
Now I'm flirting madly with the plumber who is installing our new bathroom. The Sun
I suppose I should be swotting madly to be prepared for the big meeting with the supervisor tomorrow, however.
the witch cackled madly
He almost screamed when a rat suddenly pounced out of it, squeaking madly.
Viro continued to swim madly for the near riverbank, the twine biting deep into his wrists.
She looked back from the bottom of the stairs, her mother was still in the same position, the kettle whistling madly in her ear. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Peter Grayson was the smoothest boy in town and every girl for miles around was madly in love with him.
He saw the weathervane spinning madly in the powerful breeze.
Dancers, madly dancing; silhouetted druidic gestures; pale ass-cleft of hippie maiden, vibrant in the dusk. Woodstock Nation
Now John Martyn is so madly in love again he's recorded a new album to prove it.
Tristan Parkes's daft singalong songs and Rosie Chambers' woodland set of wood chippings, floorboards and furniture entwined in flora add to the pleasure of Lane and Wass's madly comic double act.
Men, women and babies are detached in small groups or bunched together in fantastic clusters, gesticulating madly.
To all appearances, a runaway yacht was careering madly over the bight, and now and again yielding a little bit to control in a desperate effort to make Benicia. The King of the Greeks
T.e spectacle Butch Brewster beheld was indeed one to paralyze that pachydermic collegian, T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., the sunny-souled, irrepressible Senior, danced madly about on the tiger-skin rug in midfloor, evidently laboring under the delusion that he was a lunatical Hottentot at T. Haviland Hicks Senior
The biggest is over eight feet in girth, with an enormous open hollowed bolling like a madly exaggerated cartoon of a Doric column. Wildwood
Second only to psychological drama and angst, geography is important to Walker, who falls madly in love with places and stores them up for future plots.
In a trice the frost was started and the thawed streamlets dancing madly on the white-hot surface beneath. CHAPTER 20
Then, once past the madly fast presto, tender simplicity arrived in the sarabande. Times, Sunday Times
Nanna" is the daughter of Gewar, and Balder sees her bathing and falls in love with her, as madly as Frey with Gertha in Skirnismal. The Danish History, Books I-IX
We were young and madly in love. Ah, those were the days!
I leaned over the windowsill, tossing my beautiful head of hair, giggling madly at something my best friend Eira had said.
A warped rationale twisted and struggled madly to keep back the torrent rising against the flimsy barrier of his lie.
The bell still clanged madly from the steeple, and the vibrations seemed to shake the very flesh of the trembling children as they clung to their mother's hands and tried to keep up with their father's rapid strides. The Belgian Twins
A ‘precocious five-year-old’, he was taken by his mother to see The Sound of Music and fell madly in love with Julie Andrews.
When I returned to town, I was a good deal intoxicated, ranged the streets, and having met with a comely, fresh-looking girl, madly ventured to lie with her on the north brae of the castle hill.
Jack came awake with a start, teeth chattering madly from the cold.
Not madly splurging it to meet a set target. The Sun
She lisped madly, stretching out her arms and webbed fingers towards John.
He could not break his word to Nan, although he longed -- madly longed to resaddle his horse and ride away, and leave behind him forever this place which had suddenly become so full of bitter memories. The Forfeit
I was madly in love with him, too. Christianity Today
Whenever I get into a relationship, I always fall madly in love.
He's been madly spackling and painting his nice new walls and windows.
Then she ran around madly, until we decided it was late, and we headed home, via Oxfam, where I bought some loose chamomile tea that is, just plain old dried chamomile flowers, nothing tealike about it. Today was rather better
To her, all those fans in the stadium are spinning madly about the earth’s axis, hardly what she would call straight-line motion. Euclid’s Window
Cargo's nostrils flared madly as he lectured Finn.
Boats on the East River sounded their whistles while on land the cabbies honked madly. 2009 May 08 « One-Minute Book Reviews
A second later, he broke the surface, coughing madly, getting as much water as air. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
They were a beautiful couple, still madly in love at the age of ninety.
His heart thudded madly against his ribs.
That's three nights running I've had to stumble down Cannon Street Road, humming madly to disguise my desperation for a pee.
He thrashed madly, slamming his fists down wherever he could reach and kicking wildly.
The dog, in a sportive mood, careered madly through the field.
My hands were twitching madly, and I closed my eyes.
I am madly in love with composing for orchestra and hope to die writing an orchestral piece!
To all appearances, a runaway yacht was careering madly over the bight, and now and again yielding a little bit to control in a desperate effort to make Benicia. The King of the Greeks
I don't know; tomorrow I may back to my frustrated growling, howling, ululating madly as a Mad Hatter at that big-eyed, roley-poley, FULL-ASS moon. Freedom on the March
But it's a long journey, and before he confronts the renegade colonel, Willard must first face all manner of trippy imagery, including the American Air Cavalry strafing a Vietnamese village to the sound of amplified Wagner, Robert Duvall declaring that he loves "the smell of napalm in the morning", a riot triggered by frugging bunny-girls, a Californian surfer on LSD and Dennis Hopper as a madly babbling photojournalist. Apocalypse Now: No 1
As she travels about, she meets many interesting people, including the prince who falls madly in love with her in spite of the fact he believes her to be an ordinary country maid.
growled the Dog, pushing out a foreleg and wiggling madly. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
The bardling was looking around madly for something buoyant when another huge wave pushed the ship off the reef. Escape From Roksamur
The girl is totally madly in love with the boy and the boy feels the same except they're both stupid and scared to tell each other how they feel.
She looked back from the bottom of the stairs, her mother was still in the same position, the kettle whistling madly in her ear. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
He frowned, scribbling madly on his clipboard.
At first it might sound like a madly heterogeneous mix. Times, Sunday Times
Not madly splurging it to meet a set target. The Sun
Never before had he fallen madly in love with his own work.
I was waving my hand madly but he never once looked in my direction.
The first, innocuous shower stroked the lake's surface but, when the wind came up, the loons began to call madly.
Before, a smaller black unicorn stood, his wild red eyes glowing madly, and his horn a dull, dull gold, like it was supposed to be.
Now John Martyn is so madly in love again he's recorded a new album to prove it.
Rolandon prepared to retort, but his muscles and arms were aching madly and he was exhausted, physically and mentally.
He smiled in the way that fathers do… you know, that smile they give the boy that they know their daughter is falling madly in love with.
So now, the man who'd been arguing with them was covered with the birds, and was flailing about madly, sending feathers flying everywhere.
A friend said that she had been madly in love, but the relationship soon stalled. Times, Sunday Times
I ollied up onto the sidewalk, picked up my board, and dashed madly into the school.
Two of them were real spitfires and were still hissing and spitting madly.
By now I had identified the ammo box as the problem and dragged my way, hand over hand, up the boulder floor of the underwater part of the lake chamber, all the time finning madly.
The wheels and cogs in Darcy's head began to spin madly.
The Daily Telegraph is, today, having to backtrack madly today in its leader, making out that the IGC is a new development, covering the tracks for Daniel Hannan, who confidently predicted that Blair was going to sign the treaty on 22 June. Archive 2007-06-01
When Rod got back to the island bungalow, the computer was bleeping madly.
Panic made her thrash around madly, calling his name, then she made for the boat. The Glasgow Girls
The zither is a melancholy little instrument; in range of expression it is to the harp what the winchat is to the thrush; or to the violin, what that bird is to the nightingale; yet few instruments are so exciting: here and there along these mountain valleys you may hear a Tyrolese maid set her voice to its plaintive thin tones; but when the strings are swept madly there is mad dancing; it catches at the nerves. Vittoria — Volume 5
After decades of respectful froideur, the country has fallen madly in love with that unflinching emblem of postwar stoicism, the Queen.
The Greek international dawdled and as he did so his captain stepped out of midfield and waved his arms madly at him.
Whenever I get into a relationship, I always fall madly in love.
I did fall madly in love with him and those feelings don't die.
He was not thinking of what he was doing, for to think about it was to run to the livery and ride out madly.
In Nano one is more likely to plunge again madly to keep up with the word count. Is Nanowrimo a good way to write a novel?
He saw a college spy, madly in love.
And before us fled Indian and Tory, yager and renegade, Greens, Rangers, Highlanders, officers galloping madly, baggage-wagons smashed, horses down, camp trampled to tatters and splinters as the vengeance of Tryon County passed in a tornado of fury that cleansed the land forever of Walter Butler and his demons of the The Reckoning
They're clearly still madly in love, but neither of them can get their act together. The Sun

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