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 | [email protected], al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Knight of Wands: March is sure to be full of mayhem, Leo!
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The mayhem started long before the 9:30 a.m. opening of the doors.
    — Holly Gleason, Variety, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Dave Coulier also gets knocked out in the midst of the mayhem, by the way.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • But none of the protests came close to the mayhem of the Battle of Michigan Avenue.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Leave it to Christine to come up with a testament to hope in the midst of all the mayhem.
    — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • The regime’s aid to Russia is of a piece with its long campaign of mayhem in the Middle East and around the world.
    — The Editors, National Review, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The wild, flowing locks of dark hair are long gone, and so is the mayhem that arrived in South Texas with them.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Apr. 2022
  • In the midst of the mayhem, an NBC News producer had a cellphone knocked out of her hands.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 25 June 2022
  • 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
  • But such mirth and mayhem are not Mainstream Sellout‘s goal.
    — Charles Aaron, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2022
  • All of the murder and mayhem that occurred in two hours and 45 minutes was about what was in here.
    — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The mayhem in South Carolina was one of three mass shootings overnight across the U.S.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 2 June 2024
  • 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
  • In a letter to the judge, Jackson denied taking part in the mayhem.
    — Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The race had nearly been caution-free before the late mayhem.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2023
  • Harmless mayhem has been swirling around the set of the long-running ABC talk show lately.
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
  • 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
  • Murder, mayhem and the mob are a staple part of a lot of viewers’ screen diet.
    — Steve Clarke, Variety, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Swathes of the Russian internet got taken out in the mayhem.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
  • There would have been a very simple way to stop such mayhem: Sell the MoonSwatch online.
    — Jeremy White, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024
  • This is why good DJs can still rely on these records to whip up dancefloor mayhem.
    — Elias Leight, Billboard, 9 Oct. 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
  • And is the result enough to justify all the mayhem and murder that happens in those 12 hours?
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 2022
  • Amid the mayhem, Steven learned to live with the publicity, for better or worse.
    — Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE.com, 22 Apr. 2022
  • But the mayhem comes at a particularly tough time in the U.S., where sales of electric cars are flagging.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024

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