Sentence Examples:
Meanwhile, Demented chafes.
She crouches about like a creature demented.
You would be shunned for one demented.
Even the poor hunchback acted like demented.
Demented, or obsessed with some strange purpose?
The people are capering about like demented children.
He looked as if demented, his eyes were bloodshot.
He listened to her demented shrieks of lamentation.
The demented fanatic sadly shook his head.
She must assuredly be some shameless demented woman!
And a demented woman always stands there beckoning.
I've been sent to the asylum, like a demented pauper.
He thought he must be some demented admirer of Mme.
The crowd grew demented with their blasphemous sport.
I declare he laid hold of the pulley like one demented.
Mute, mindless, or demented nations are dangerous and doomed nations.
In regard to these two men English society seemed demented.
There can be no sacredness in such demented mural testaments.
The meteor was twisting and turning like a thing demented.
His face wore a demented look, and was working pitifully.
The ear would think a demented menagerie was devouring itself.
Demented Traveler flits past the carriage, looking for it.
He began to suspect that this amazing girl was demented.
Their show of firearms made no impression upon the demented wretch.
Even the temporarily demented are not without a species of cunning.
The trapper stared at the Irishman incredulously, thinking him demented.
He raved and laughed and cried and cursed like one demented.
I think the girl is demented and has had some hallucination.
A certain rather small percentage of epileptics become either demented or insane.
She was wild, unkempt, demented, and had borne three children.
John Cameron, who had again taken the tiller, seemed as one demented.
Becoming demented, he attempted to shoot himself and had to be superseded.
And he wrung his hands like a demented person, and sobbed bitterly.
They flashed up and down the brook like a pair of demented fireworks.
He burst out, and looking upward he muttered in distress: "She is demented."
He ran more slowly, looked eagerly at every passer-by, and seemed half demented.
Pink Wastebasket, quivering like a demented hula dancer, was clearly approaching a crisis.
Wild and haggard, he stared at me with bloodshot eyes like a man demented.
And another wild paroxysm of effort, the decorated bow almost demented now!
I stared at her, aghast, believing her demented with the agony of our fears.
They got him ashore at last pretty well demented and fighting like a maniac.
My sin sometimes drives me like a man bereft of his reason and clean demented.
I wept, implored, ran about like one demented, begging, bribing, entreating the natives to help.
Ah, I see you think I am demented because I say that, but my husband is alive.
The poor girl sunk upon the ground, cried, and wrung her hands like one demented.
We may picture him wandering forth, in an ill-fitting suit of civilian clothes, demented, broken, dazed.
He was roaring like mad, and whirling his arms over his head like a demented windmill.
Brace broke forth in a loud rant, profane and obscene, and danced about like one demented.
Why I have secreted this poor demented creature, have kept even you in ignorance of her whereabouts.
They will think me a crank, an enemy to society; and they will think you demented.
The emotion which accompanies mental activity is generally exaggerated in all insane people except the demented.
He fled down the valley, and like one demented vanished in the gloom of the banyans.
On such a theory, very few lunatics indeed would be acquitted; few ever are so totally demented.
To judge from the jumble of figures, it was the product of his poor, demented brain.
Pictures of relatives were snatched from the walls, clothing was seized, and the people were demented.
Its master is aged and bedridden and demented, and it is governed by two malevolent spinsters.
He supposed that Wiggins had become demented, and that he was in the presence of a maniac.
The suitor who could have risked making her child his wife would have been demented, or sublime.
This frail wraith, this poor demented thing could hold them in the hollow of her hand!
I asked, staggered by this act of criminal presumption, and thinking the man must be demented.
The drummer was already committing demented acts upon a scavenger collection of tins, boxes, and whistles.
He was very wistful and very eager, and said I must not think him a fool or demented.
The old man had now become entirely demented and, with his failing sight, was pitiable indeed.
He underwent a terrifying ordeal at the hands of his demented captor, although he was not actually injured.
Poor humanity, so deluded as to the essential values of life, so peculiarly demented in all that concerns Property!
Persons who have in legal form been declared demented or mentally deficient, and also persons under guardianship. g.
Are the English mad, demented, or besotted, that they suppose we intend to endure such deliberate aid of our enemies?
Maybe the man in the cassock had not been really so demented, and had meant to lead K.'
There was opportunity, too, for bringing comfort and resignation to the demented, the paralyzed and the blind.
The colonel saw hundreds struggling and fighting for "a gill and a pint" round three demented waitresses.
We all knew that her father had just gone staggering home, blind drunk, crying like a demented man.
Besides, Nietzsche was a poet, completely demented at his death, and was no authority among the University sages.
As she gets older she will become more and more demented, and will be eventually removed to some imbecile establishment.
You are only a woman of earthly powers, a heartless creature, half demented by your venomous hatred of a good man.
He began to pace the floor, muttering as one demented, or at least as one under the strongest stress of excitement.
Fully vindicated by the confession of a demented man who may or may not know what he is saying.
They are either too old, too confirmed in their habits, or too demented to afford ground for any hope of reformation.
To your startled senses comes the immediate suggestion, "Is the giver of the feast demented, or is he merely rude?"
A moment later he caught sight of Josiah Bean, gazing up and down the thoroughfare and acting like one demented.
I laughed so convulsively that the other people who were staring at the books took me for a poor demented gentleman.
I sat staring at it, half demented, utterly helpless to do more, my own body throbbing with a thousand agonies.
She made no reply, trembled, put her hair and her clothes straight again with the fingers of a woman demented.
The demented manager perched upon the corner of the editorial table, with an effect of being poised for instant flight.
Cried Meg, shaking her fist at the uncouth shape twisting and singing against the sunset sky like one demented.
He knew that the entire staff would think him demented, but he could not see that he was acting rashly.
Now and then he struck his forehead and heart like a man demented, with cries of anguish, curses and lamentations.
Then followed the loss of the money; the hoarded guineas were all stolen, and Silas was like a man demented!
He had been working on a big choral work which he was composing, and by this time he was almost demented.
And after this thicker and faster they came, crowding one group behind another, until the ushers were nearly demented.
The demented old woman played on in a wailing minor key, and presently footsteps were heard coming down the hall.
The poor, demented creature had taken a seat upon a stump beside the corpse, and was moaning and wringing her hands.
The king was not only well stricken in years, but a great sufferer from gout, and was moreover believed to be demented.
He writhed at the reflection; and when he reached the quiet of his own home, he paced his large study as one demented.
At this he began to swear in French like one demented, and asked me had I never told the planter I was a carpenter.
I had hardly helped her and finished my dinner when people clamored at the door, the demented as well as the sick.
I dug eagerly, and now and then caught myself actually looking, with something that very much resembled expectation, for the fancied treasure, the vision of which had demented my unfortunate companion.
He felt somehow that the thing was right; he felt that had the demented creature achieved his purpose and himself escaped, the position would have been fraught with serious complications, not to say dangers.
Whether slightly demented or not, Reardon gave no sign of inability to discharge his duties; he was conscientious as ever, and might, unless he changed greatly, be relied upon in positions of more responsibility than his present one.
As for myself, I said nothing: my first idea being that my poor friend, being demented, had composed the whole thing, though it scarcely seemed likely that such a story could have been invented by anybody.
He falls in with a Dobbin that is pursued by everybody, and this so affects him, together with the worry over his examination, that he becomes demented, and he imagines that the Dobbin is talking to him.