Scrambling beneath his gown the demented boy flung his arms around the massy pillar of the Doctor's leg, and prayed aloud to him for help, between heart-rending screams.
The great part of the German army in the early stage of the war was really an army of demented civilians.
And off trots some demented Carsonite to Germany to play at treason on some half word of the German Emperor's and buy half a million rifles.
And, staggering up past Cramier, who never moved, he got into his boat, and like one demented pulled out into the stream.
But at that moment the young lady rose and ran as if demented into her castle.
They are called paranoics, melancholics, demented and insane.
That is, she was in a state not unlike those demented persons who seem to be, and are, quite sane and logical and self-possessed, once you get beyond the fixed delusion which determines the posture and outlook of their entire being.
There followed a dramatic bit that again involved the demented mother.
In the background, as they stood entwined, the poor demented old mother was seen.
I will get her out for a drive; sitting alone in one room, as that demented old Chivers prescribes, is the worst thing for a nervous complaint.
Between them they soon dragged out Mr. Tremaine, half suffocated, and puffing and panting like a demented steam-engine, but by the time he had recovered his breath not much the worse.
A famous Scotch preacher tells us that a demented boy, who was in the habit of attending one of the classes in his Sunday school, was sick unto death.
I am a poor, rather demented creature with very high ideals and in my anxiety to see some of my ideas carried out I offend many good men, put myself into a false position and ruin myself in other people's estimation.
Their mysteries occupied the boys for some space; but Aubrey returned to the charge.
What the blue fury 're ye all sittin' garpin' at like a lot o' demented damn kelpies?
The demented woman was always calling out for those who were much to her, but who were far from her--was always saying that her heart wanted the love that was denied it.
I heard a low knock at my door, but I answered it not: why should even a demented woman see me as I was?
And she was a demented woman, whom her husband had to take good care of, and she relied upon me for such poor comfort as I could afford her.
But my thought was interrupted: the poor demented woman was weeping in her room.
It was then I remembered the poor demented woman, and I arose and opened my room-door.
I ran forward demented like the others, as if things could not be other than what they were.
The animals kicked wildly about them, and whenever they succeeded in getting free they rushed off like demented however severely they had been hurt.
A mean little brick heap, like a demented chapel, with a few yawning persons in leather gaiters, and in the last extremity for something to do, lounging at the door with their hands in their pockets, and calling themselves a Corn Exchange!
Some folks thinks that everything that prospectors says they come across in the mountains is jest their demented imaginatings like; but I seen mountains o' mud before.
As for myself, I had no superstitious fears after the first cry, though I must confess that at the first demented cry my heart stood still in a brief, savage terror.
Manrico was not yet so demented that the boys would run after him, but he was sufficiently so to talk and gesticulate to himself, which is where madness begins.
One was demented to such an extent that it was impossible to get out of him more than a few disconnected groans.
It was indeed like travelling with a band of mischievous demented people.
Idiots, cretins, and dementedpersons are sometimes incapable of expressing themselves.
The demented paralytic and the imbecile, like children, are easily influenced by the suggestions of others or their own fancies.
The effect of this shock demented my father for a time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "demented" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
