How to Use mayhem in a Sentence

mayhem

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  • And, with that, the SEC’s master of mayhem strikes again.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The mayhem started long before the 9:30 a.m. opening of the doors.
    — Holly Gleason, Variety, 17 Mar. 2024
  • And during much of the mayhem, the Israeli army was almost nowhere to be seen.
    — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • In the process, some people get bumped by bags while others try to sit tight to avoid the mayhem.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
  • In Singapore a store was forced to shut for 10 days in a bid to let the mayhem play itself out.
    — Jeremy White, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023
  • So, barring mayhem, North Dakota will not earn a first-round bye for the event.
    — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Friends and relatives of Lynch said he was not involved in the mayhem.
    — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The race had nearly been caution-free before the late mayhem.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2023
  • Takeovers can play out in the middle of the night on isolated streets or in the day, when other drivers are caught in the mayhem.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • Swathes of the Russian internet got taken out in the mayhem.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
  • As the mayhem has spread, though, hundreds of Palestinians like Zoufi have jumped into the fight.
    — Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Scenes of the Ocean Drive mayhem appeared on national news shows.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The point is that Fury of the Gods actually cares about this stuff enough to fold it into the fabric of the usual mayhem.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Most of the mayhem is executed in great style, though some visual effects fall short of the mark.
    — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Though there's mayhem and murder, the audience has faith that it will be solved—and the villain will see justice.
    — Town & Country, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Longtime Godzilla fan Sam Munoz says the small budget didn’t mean less mayhem.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2023
  • But some are still out there, still committing mayhem on our landscapes and our lives.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • But the road to that victory was paved with emotional mayhem.
    — Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The mayhem of those years — rooted in turf battles between drug gangs — made more sense to him than the crime that involves youngsters now.
    — Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Because there's more people of good than people of mayhem.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • To this day, the person responsible for the 29 days of mayhem across three Midwest states has never been caught.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 15 July 2023
  • General mayhem seems to have dominated the news in April in days gone by.
    — Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Toward her car, where traffic was already piled up, or away from that mayhem?
    — Roger Cohen Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Whatever mayhem goes on around him — and there is plenty of that — Raylan makes a viewer feel safe.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
  • While three of the poltergeists insist on causing mayhem, Kat befriends Casper, a lonely child spirit.
    — Claudia Guthrie, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
  • In full disclosure, much of this discussion of the mayhem of April was published by me nearly 20 years ago.
    — Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2023
  • President Lincoln knew that whichever way the vote went, there was going to be mayhem.
    — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Hopefully, the final weeks will feature all sorts of mayhem.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Because while these mutants deliver their fair share of mirth, that comes with a little too much mayhem for their own good.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
  • What form mortification should take, though, wasn’t clear, and the attempt to free the self of all its needs except the need for God can today look like masochism or mayhem.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023

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