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Examples of bedlam in a Sentence
Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
And then, the bedlam began, led by Tomlinson, a junior forward from Blue Springs South.
—Randy Covitz, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
New releases can cause bedlam in stores such as Target and Starbucks.
—Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2024
Of all the things said over the past few days, and even months, about McAfee, Rodgers and the bedlam Rodgers has created, what Hill says about it all is so dead on it should be required reading for every executive inside the network.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
The victim can be seen lying on the ground in shock as the bedlam continues around her.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2024
The remarkable demand underlines the bedlam for the contest between the nuclear-armed foes and vindicates the decision from the authorities to ensure that the match is played in New York.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
The station then cut back to the bedlam at the bridge.
—Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
Her hair is windswept against a pillow seemingly suspended in the air, as if she’s moved from bed to bedlam; in reality, the ensemble was a surrealist Viktor & Rolf duvet gown fresh off the runway from the label’s Fall-Winter 2005 ready-to-wear collection.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
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Word History
Bedlam, popular name for the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem, London, an asylum for the mentally ill, from Middle English Bedlem Bethlehem
1522, in the meaning defined at sense 3
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“Bedlam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bedlam. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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bedlam
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from Middle English Bedlem "Bethlehem"
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