How To Use Mayhem In A Sentence

Here's a story of mischief and mayhem to brighten up your Monday morning lecture.
Rather, Robertson, skulking ahead, has now downgraded his earlier call to murder and mayhem to mere kidnapping.
That craziest part about it was that for a moment after she'd said it, he had actually contemplated madness and mayhem.
Imagine the mayhem he'll give the enemy, huh.
Police say they are winning the war against violent drunks who cause mayhem in the West End of the city at weekends.

With the no-doubt unintended effect of suggesting that Wallace's menace and ensuing mayhem might, in hindsight, be laughed-off like a good-ol'-boy joke, "George Wallace: Settin 'the Woods on Fire" takes part of its title, and its misguided musical leitmotif from a wacky, Hank Williams party-hearty song. Film/Television: Lost Highways
The first obvious difference from the manga is in the appearance of the central character, Deunan, who in the manga is more-or-less a regular self-capable woman with an unusual skill for violence and mayhem, but who in the anime has become a short-haired tomboy whose fighting skills ascend to the level of gravity-defying superpowers, as she is capable of backflipping over enemy gunfire in slow-motion. Archive 2007-08-01
Lillian Andrews, a scheming sexpot, seduces her married boss, causing divorce and general mayhem in the lives of those around her.
We are often obliged to report on mayhem and savage behaviour perpetrated by thugs who are barely out of rompers.
So they created stage shows filled with magic tricks and mayhem, tied them to films about werewolves and zombies and took them out on tour, playing local theaters and auditoriums, promising a thousand and one frights.
In the urban maze of narrow streets cut between the cliff-like skyscrapers below, there was mayhem.
They are still causing mayhem in their southern bailiwick.
They might think twice before spreading their own particular brand of mayhem and destruction. The Sun
You return to find complete and utter mayhem. The Sun
A revolt against a ruling liberal political class which has caused untold havoc at home and mayhem and murder abroad. The Sun
Even while behind bars they seem capable of causing maximum mayhem.
No formal curtain: the mayhem just softens to one voice as the house lights go down. Times, Sunday Times
The gameplay involves a lot of tally-hoing across the countryside in search of treasure, monsters, and all manner of mayhem.
During the communal riots in Jabalpur India in the early sixties, both Muslims and Hindus were killed in the mayhem. Mike Ghouse: A Tribute To My Pluralist Father
He is absolutely correct, there is total madness and mayhem on the roads in Bradford.
I had the freedom of the city the Wednesday after that and then it was just the mayhem of being taken from place to place.
No formal curtain: the mayhem just softens to one voice as the house lights go down. Times, Sunday Times
By the time you read this, the two days of riots I'm referring to might have swollen into a major crisis -- or they might have been subsumed and forgotten in the din and onrush of mayhem in Libya and Syria, radiation in Japan or whatever's next. Ethan Casey: Terry Jones' America Is A Dangerous Place To Be
Normally his family life, with lecturer wife Paula and two teenage children, is a nice counterpoint to the mayhem and misery his work uncovers.
A revolt against a ruling liberal political class which has caused untold havoc at home and mayhem and murder abroad. The Sun
You return to find complete and utter mayhem. The Sun
But they are kind of stripey, big kitty …" - Mayhem Stumbling Over Chaos
I certainly see that there is violence, mayhem, crookery and deceit all around me. Judie Fein: Pledge of Peace
Maybe all that walking into glass doors and getting beaned with water bottles was Justin Bieber's way of telegraphing to MTV execs that not only is he a hit with the kids, as they say, but capable of spontaneity, physical humor and mayhem that stops just short of "Jackass" level hijinks. Rumor Mill: Justin Bieber gets 'Punk'd'
Riots, looting and mayhem followed as crowds piled into the lawless city. Times, Sunday Times
They are engraved on the political landscape, unchanging, perhaps unchangeable, and the current round of violence and mayhem is no exception.
It's a bit of mayhem, but I'm a vet, nothing fazes me," said Rob O'Connor, who has worked as an engineer on Broadway for 32 years. Threat Has City on Edge
For some children, the first fall of snow is an opportunity to create mayhem.
To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized, merely the domesticated. School Suspends Six-Year-Old Boy For Bringing Folding Silverware to Lunch
Although the historical characters that make up the cast are a pretty unsavory crew, all thoughts of murder, mayhem, and matricide were still in the future when Agrippina plotted to make her son, Nero, Rome's emperor.
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The government is to get tough on hooligans who cause mayhem with fireworks.
Riots, looting and mayhem followed as crowds piled into the lawless city. Times, Sunday Times
To the mayhem already caused by unsustainable farming we must now add dredging. Times, Sunday Times
He has left all kinds of damage, destruction and mayhem in his wake. Times, Sunday Times
Both leaders know they are not just dealing with the mayhem on the streets: they have to keep their backs covered as well.
Cops summoned reinforcements as mayhem involving pupils as young as 12 raged for hours. The Sun
At worst, the outcome could be wholesale slaughter on a scale that makes the current level of daily mayhem look like the peaceable kingdom.
Post-trial newspaper reports paint a picture of pathological mayhem, with medical experts disagreeing and changing their opinions.
And while the Kray twins (whose gangster crime spree was a '60s sensation) aren't quite as notorious on these shores as Jack the Ripper, the murders and maimings echoing the Kray mayhem are just as gut-churning a challenge for DI Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones), still smarting from his reputation as "the man who failed to find the Ripper. Critic's Guide to Wednesday TV: The SNL Comedy Invasion, A New Whitechapel Case, and More!
It's impossible to predict what mayhem may ensue. Times, Sunday Times
It's a slow boat ride that weaves though the darkness amidst illuminated animatronic scenes of pirate mayhem.
HIV renegades sometimes seem as if their main goal is mayhem, not construc - tive discourse. The Hiv Disbelievers
Last week her set piece was a ripsnorter - peppered as it was, with traces of embedded humour - involving journalists, military mayhem, cover-up and collusion.
But apart from bluffs, tricks, and mayhem, the coming year may be a boon for babies.
What mayhem will ensue this time? The Sun
Police in riot gear were called out at the campus after several cars were overturned, fires were started and mayhem ensued.
But to go from the legal mayhem of rugby union to illegal violence is a small step indeed.
How come Jack McConnell greeted all the madness and mayhem of Wednesday's debate on the Licensing Bill with the widest of smiles?
Fighting, rowdyism and general mayhem erupted on the quiet main street of Abbeyleix on Sunday last.
There was complete mayhem after the explosion.
There was mayhem going on on the road outside as the road repair men did their best to barricade us all in whilst they patched our holes.
(Sushi) and along with us we took the one main instigator of birthday mayhem in the office. THE FIRST NANOWRIMO PRIZE PACKAGE - MY BIRTHDAY ROCKS - MORE!
In my everyday work as a doctor, for example, I see the results of ungoverned, and consequently ungovernable, passion: that is to say, murder, mayhem, and misery.
When he saw her out in the garden he bounded out, did the sideways approach, all huffed up and brave, and was all ready to challenge her to a bit of mayhem.
Make-up mayhemAre your cosmetics becoming 'hothouses' for bacteria? National Nine News
After I wrote this, I realized I should have included a second category: people whose main interest is recreational mayhem rather than political ideology. The Volokh Conspiracy » House Democratic Leaders Drop “Deem and Pass”
The band imprinted my vacation with incongruities: the clear blue beauty of the Aegean sea and the fuzz-fest mayhem of "Territorial Pissings", a hot shimmering Mediterranean sun infected with the chilling strains of "Polly". In search of Nirvana
Two weeks ago, we reported how hordes of rowdy teenagers were congregating in the library entrance hall, causing mayhem and hurling abuse at users.
Such sonic mayhem envisioned the sounds of madness, neurosis, and warped wit.
If you thought disabled athletes were in any way less competitive than able-bodied ones then this mayhem should put you right.
Fast-moving fun for younger viewers, centring on Lizzie Forbes, whose overworked imagination often embroils her in misunderstandings, muddles and miscellaneous mayhem.
Last week's session ended up in mayhem, with deputies expelled and the rest hurling insults and swearing at each other.
Mayhem in the Midlands is being held at the Downtown/Old Market Embassy Suites, 555 S. 10th Street, in Omaha, during May 22-25, 2008. Omaha Bound | The Stiletto Gang
They have issues boiling away inside and their only outlet is to cause mayhem in the streets.
All these fools want to do is bring down this Government and bring about mayhem. The Sun
His positioning was faultless and his appetite for pain and mayhem truly awesome.
The show also features choice morsels of mayhem from Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Richard III.
The sheer amount of mayhem on screen at once does cause a few minor moments of slowdown, but if anything, it lets you get a handle on the situation.
Mayhem do so, as well as all interested parties (bangar at internode. on.net do not cut ‘n’ paste). Cheeseburger Gothic » Well that was AWSM!
The consequent revaluations would cause mayhem, chaos and huge bills for those on the receiving end.
In a sense the tricolour had been colonised by a small grouping bringing murder and mayhem in their wake and such was the antipathy of the general population to the Provos and all their pomps that the national flag was almost sidelined.
Sounds great, working in mayhem is not nice at all. Chez nous
Why should we have yet more people, wandering around stoned, causing mayhem on our streets?
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said Tuesday that the cause of last week's market mayhem is still unknown but practically ruled out some ... Washington: Political News & Issues from Obamas White House & Congress
She gets severely striped there but causes further mayhem and is sent on to an even more castigatory establishment.
The surprising thing here is not the over-the-top mayhem, but the inanity of the infrequent dialogue scenes.
Mischiefmakers, mayhem creators, fraudulent shady cartoon characters.
Muddle and mayhem Security at the Shorts company's guided-missile plant in Belfast was exposed again.
A tragic turn of events, but made funny by the fact that it happens to children, whose ineptness at life leads them into all sorts of mayhem and funniness as a result.
They are also dismayed that foreign criminals are clogging our jails and causing mayhem on our roads. The Sun
Poor voice acting and a rubbish storyline might be forgiven if the general mayhem on which it hinges delivered anything approaching fun. Times, Sunday Times
But apart from bluffs, tricks, and mayhem, the coming year may be a boon for babies.
The version of those good times that the Stones subsequently created for themselves quickly became, he suggested, a cross between The Goon Show and a Hieronymous Bosch painting: nightly mayhem involving audiences of teenage girls "perspiring heavily and with their dresses up". Rewind radio: Jagger's Jukebox; Keith Richards at Home; Johnnie Walker With the Kinks
Regardless, Rice seeks payback, and before you can say ‘I'll never get these 95 minutes of my life back,’ guns blaze and squibs pop and general mayhem ensues.
After some scenes of topless women and some meanderings by the annoying characters, the mayhem starts.
No small amount of mayhem is committed every year in the name of injured pride.
Rumours abounded of nefarious plots to cause mayhem in Istanbul itself. Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
In fact, as Kwan readies himself for the fight, dubbed May Day Mayhem, he is flat broke.
It's against this background that the novel explodes into murder, mayhem, sexual intrigue and the scandalous exposure of secrets in a splendid denouement.
He bludgeoned seven fours and a six in 40 balls of pure mayhem in which both the MCC coaching manual and the bowling were ripped apart.
War also can be inchoate and incoherent, its object not far removed from insensate mayhem.
But during a troubled century, market mayhem occurred with sickening frequency.
Imagine the mayhem he'll give the enemy, huh.
When 24 first screened in 2001, Sutherland was a fading bratpack name, whose fame had been eroding since the 80s on the familiar rocks of tabloid mayhem and terrible film choices. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
There was complete mayhem after the explosion.
After some scenes of topless women and some meanderings by the annoying characters, the mayhem starts.
The overriding impression is one of mayhem, machismo, bluster and braggadocio.
On one level, this undoubtedly contributes to a general atmosphere of mayhem.
There were many more spectators seemingly enjoying the mayhem. Times, Sunday Times
The understudies start by reading from books, but by the magic of theatre these are soon dropped, and the play takes over, its passage buffeted by the mayhem going on all around it.
The funny climax, shot against the picturesque sand dunes of Dubai, is a mix of madness and mayhem.
That being said, it is sad to see these iconic iconoclasts exhibiting less than their expected quotient of surreal mayhem.
During these times of course registration mayhem you undoubtedly curse the evil that is voice mail.
Indeed through all the mayhem and idiocy, Blue prove perfectly captivating.
The gang are in full flight picking fights, hassling girls and generally causing mayhem.
Those still in the city described deserted streets and mayhem in the shops as people tried to stock up on essentials.
My husband leaves a haven of rest and order to come home to mayhem and madness.
This economic mayhem is taking its toll. Times, Sunday Times
It did not conduce to my equanimity to see my name catalogued with persons arrested for sneak thievery, pocket-picking, drunkenness, brawling, and mayhem. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice
Artery-clogging cholesterol, alcohol and carcinogenic free radicals cause cellular mayhem in the aftermath of too many bibulous feasts.
Eventually all plot strands converge in a climax of mayhem and carnage and everything gets ‘sorted’.
Then there is New Year, which is mayhem and madness of fireworks, and is not even Thai New Year!
The powerhouse City is seen as the cause of much of this economic mayhem. Times, Sunday Times
After seven years of murder, mayhem and kakistocracy I am voting for ABR (Any But Republicans) this November. Edwards: Bill Has The Right To Campaign For Hillary
A chilly, drizzly evening set the stage for a terrific tale of murder, mystery and mayhem, led by one Mr. Ripper's foremost authorities.
I thought this would make people careful about concealing their true identities; in fact it led to more mayhem than I would have believed possible.
They are a huge part of the live show, the sound of wood on wood in a rapturous four-handed rhythm ringing out over the harmonious mayhem with such primal authority.
Brightly strewn wet fliers, that is; las feriadas are the height of the water wars, as trucks filled with young people careen through town with tanks of water, bucketing unlucky pedestrians and generally wrecking mayhem. Nathaniel Loewentheil: Deviled Dancers, Drunken Pilgrimages and the Magic of Bolivia's Carnaval
The game starts out innocently, with the usual childhood pranks and mayhem.
It would be easy to conclude that his politics were merely window dressing for mayhem.
They will then make their way to the Peoples' Park for maritime madness and mayhem.
We all know in our hearts that this is where the horror is conceived and from there it is only a very short pathway to the birth of death, destruction and mayhem.
Murder and mayhem isn't just limited to bare-handed butchery, oh no.
You dared not go into the town centre at night because of the mayhem. Times, Sunday Times
Nothing much happens to disturb our peace and, when mayhem comes along, we find that a nice cup of tea soon puts it all in proportion.
There was absolute mayhem when the cow got into the village hall.
Their arrival caused mayhem as crowds of refugees rushed towards them.
It only takes a few stupid people to create mayhem in a crowd.
Everything happens so quickly that a defence just one metre out of position can cause mayhem. Times, Sunday Times
Twelve simple drawings in a Danish newspaper have caused anger and mayhem around the Islamic world.
If you’re within cooee of the S. E, I’d be delighted to shout you a brew, Mayhem! Cheeseburger Gothic » Sweet jeebus, lookit this mess!
Now is his chance for revenge, as bewitcher and bewitched are embroiled in a turbulent tale of mayhem, magic, and enchantment.
Kashmir Herald is an attempt by Kashmiri Hindus to unmask the truths behind the mayhem perpetrated in the name of religion in the State of Jammu & Kashmir in India.
His team talks prior to Lansdowne games were incitements to mayhem.
That type of mayhem is a long way away, but the potential for BCS controversy is high, unlike last season, when Florida, Alabama and Texas moved into the top three spots in late September and didn't budge until the SEC title game. College Football Rankings Week 6: Big Change Atop AP Poll
They might think twice before spreading their own particular brand of mayhem and destruction. The Sun
Swindon magistrates heard they had waged a campaign of terror in the past six months, causing mayhem for shoppers and staff.
Will they find it in themselves to rebel one last time and cause mayhem? Times, Sunday Times
Icon Make-It goes one step further towards mayhem - it's an integrated package for the sensibly challenged.
Six-plus years after 9/11; while the Taliban attempts an Afghanistan comeback; as Islamist terrorists cause mayhem in Algeria and occupy huge swaths of tribal Pakistan; despite "United 93" and "The Kite Runner," a library-full of books, presidential commissions, congressional hearings, and four election cycles — despite all of that, a strange, Victorian reticence about naming the enemy in the contest for the human future in which we are engaged befogs this political season. The War Against Jihadism
A film based on his autobiography, Hooleygan: Music, Mayhem, Good Vibrations - described as "anarchic, dishevelled and hugely entertaining" - is scheduled to begin production later this year. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
He represents physical impulse with no refinement - pure hormonally driven mayhem. Times, Sunday Times
It only takes a few stupid people to create mayhem in a crowd.
Winds gusting up to 75 mph brought chaos to parts of the north west - but luck was on the side of those who got caught up in the mayhem.
When the cast began to emerge, the crowd surged forward, and it was mayhem.
Road users and residents say they are fed up with the constant gridlock and traffic mayhem.
I like the word mayhem but it sounds a bit harsh than what we've got going on. Swim
To the mayhem already caused by unsustainable farming we must now add dredging. Times, Sunday Times
But to forestall the recognition of a Palestinian state he will happily cosset influential end-timers like Glenn Beck, who apparently has a touch of Jerusalem syndrome, a religiously-induced form of psychosis I first learned about from an episode of The X-Files, in which a grey-haired millionaire leaves a trail of mayhem and destruction in his wake following a trip to the holy city. Ariel Gonzalez: Infallible Israel
Shocked residents have told of the mayhem brought to their smart suburb after a man was found shot dead.
The emergency-exit stairs at One World Trade Center will debouch to the street rather than into the lobby to head off a mayhem collision of firefighters and panicking tenants. The Skyscraper as a Pillar of Confidence
Will Afghanistan - or what remains of it after decades of mayhem, following the Soviet attack that lammed into that country from 1979-have been pounded?
Just 20 lads are causing mayhem stealing hundreds of cars, tearing round estate roads and then dumping the vehicles on backstreets.
Such eclecticism could have resulted in visual mayhem in less experienced curatorial hands.
The mayhem of World War II was followed by more than 40 years of Communist dictatorship in Central and Eastern Europe.
He refuted the skeptics by proving that a man could still make concert-stage mayhem from a sitting position.
The battles showcase a generalized blur of blood within much frenetic camerawork, but we get very few startling evocations of real mayhem or horror.
Mayhem in the Midlands is held in the Embassy Suites – Downtown. Mayhem Diary | The Stiletto Gang
If there is a way to cause mayhem, death and destruction, we will find it and improve on it.
Tim Key took a year out after winning the Edinburgh comedy award in 2009 with Slutcracker and is back with Masterslut Pleasance, a similar blend of short poems, arty film clips and leftfield mayhem. Edinburgh fringe comedy roundup
The trio, all in their late 50s, ride for leisure and travel, not mayhem.
This fibreglass ball chair is a cheap way to add a private retreat to the family home: if you swivel it away from the infant mayhem in your living room you are cocooned in a womb-within-a-room.
In the audience it was both a mad mayhem of frenetic bouncing and a sea of staring faces intrigued and in awe.
Nothing adds up or makes sense and the plot descends into complete mayhem and rage.
Embarrassed by his velvet breeks and white stockings, praying no one from his school would ever see pictures of him in such sissy clothes, he was trying to distance himself from the mayhem. A Small Death in the Great Glen
This was student politics circa 1926, in the days when electing a rector at Edinburgh University caused mayhem in the city.
The Francisca is supposed to have been thrown in a massed volley to create certain amounts of mayhem prior to the onrush of the host of warriors.
A bit of parliamentary mayhem might attract the interest of voters who are now entirely indifferent to what goes on at Holyrood.
[Mayhem in the Midlands is one of the best bargains, fee-wise.] Hitchhiker's Guide to Mystery Fests
There it sat in its box, endless hours of murder and mayhem on offer. Times, Sunday Times
The overriding impression is one of mayhem, machismo, bluster and braggadocio.
This was not a kneejerk reaction to a one-off night of mayhem. Times, Sunday Times
He may get the girl, but not before the comprimario has the chance to cause satisfying mayhem. NYT > Home Page
Mayhem, of course you can take the sub on joyrides - you and Fireman Sam could join the Half Mile Under Club. Cheeseburger Gothic » Huzzah!
The gameplay involves a lot of tally-hoing across the countryside in search of treasure, monsters, and all manner of mayhem.
The insurgent terrorists have launched a day of mayhem.
In order to apply closure to the mayhem, a farmer, driven insane after the loss of his youngest son, arrives in the nick with assorted homemade weapons.
Her reaction upon reading of his alleged mayhem was to chart his movements over the period of days in question.
As the railway compartment became a popular venue for fictional mayhem when crime fiction flowered from the later Victorian years almost all cases involved men attacking men.
Will they find it in themselves to rebel one last time and cause mayhem? Times, Sunday Times
There is nothing like the loquacious mayhem of a summer picnic with close friends to bring out the very best in serendipitous, anarchic explorations of wine, food and opinions. LENNDEVOURS:
You dared not go into the town centre at night because of the mayhem. Times, Sunday Times
An Australian teenager has become an overnight Internet celebrity for admitting that he was the mastermind behind the "mouseover" attack that led to Tuesday's Twitter mayhem. Pearce Delphin, Australian Teen, Takes Responsibility For Twitter Mouseover Attack
Rumours abounded of nefarious plots to cause mayhem in Istanbul itself. Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
The cowering is a partial motivation of all the mayhem for goodness sake!!! Think Progress » VIDEO: Maliki Speech Interrupted By War Protestor
With reports of shattered guitars, groupie mayhem and determined substance abuse, this new offering comes as something of a surprise.
There was absolute mayhem when everyone tried to get out at once.
At worst, the outcome could be wholesale slaughter on a scale that makes the current level of daily mayhem look like the peaceable kingdom.
Reminds me of the orgiastically absurd Eastern European polka-inspired mayhem Macy Gray concocted on “Oblivion”. Download This: Basement Jaxx | EW.com
Halloween falls on a Saturday this year and that has law enforcement agencies across the country preparing for a night of arrests -- not only for the usual mischief and mayhem but for drunken driving. This week in safety: Halloween cautions and recalls
They just bring misery and mayhem. The Sun
High spirits often get out of control and lead to violence and mayhem.
The genius, here, is that the athletic soar of that chesty attitude indicates not boyish high spirits or exuberant tough-guy mayhem, but a desperate cling to a fading image of the larger-than-life.
But for this week the mayhem and madness continues in the toy stores of Sligo.

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