Craze is an English word with synonyms like crack or mania. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Craze meaning
- A strong habitual desire or fancy.
- A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.
- A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
Synonyms of Craze
Using Craze
- The main meaning on this page is: A strong habitual desire or fancy. | A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad. | A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
- Useful related words include: crack, manic disorder, mania, hysteria.
- In the example corpus, craze often appears in combinations such as: the craze, craze for, craze is.
Context around Craze
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Craze
- In this selection, "craze" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, memecoin, gin, retro, surrounding, recently and assumptions stand out and add context to how "craze" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include black culture craze and camp oven craze was fuelled. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "craze" sits close to words such as acidic, attributable and backstop, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with craze
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I don’t understand the craze. (6 words)
Americans Lead the Memecoin Craze in 2023 (Study)cryptopotato. (9 words)
Incidentally, the new remastered Dance Craze is farking wonderful. (9 words)
Iga Swiatek underlined her credentials as a firm favourite for the French Open title on Saturday after serving up double bagels yet again with a 6-0 6-0 win, but the world number one refused to be swept up in the “Iga’s Bakery” social media craze. (48 words)
Say that at the height of the Popeye’s chicken sandwich craze, there was a unionized Popeye’s that for weeks had been complaining about the working conditions when large crowds come to the storefront. (35 words)
By the 19th century, the Gin Craze was under control, and new “gin palaces” built out of glittering glass, ornate dark woods, brass and artistic carvings began popping up. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
It a craze and in this craze you are ruining your career and health.
Americans Lead the Memecoin Craze in 2023 (Study)cryptopotato.
But then, the craze for power in Africa goes beyond the generational wealth that may come from it.
By the 19th century, the Gin Craze was under control, and new “gin palaces” built out of glittering glass, ornate dark woods, brass and artistic carvings began popping up.
Chevy offered the SSR during the retro craze of the late ’90s and early aughts.
I cast this motley lineup since they all participated in America’s recent mainstream crypto craze.
I don’t understand the craze.
Iga Swiatek underlined her credentials as a firm favourite for the French Open title on Saturday after serving up double bagels yet again with a 6-0 6-0 win, but the world number one refused to be swept up in the “Iga’s Bakery” social media craze.
In 2022, some brands leaned into the craze surrounding NFTs, crypto and the metaverse.
Incidentally, the new remastered Dance Craze is farking wonderful.
In his directorial debut, Peele maximizes the genre to shed light on the terrors of newfound “negrophilia” or the black culture craze.
Last weekend, this camp oven craze was fuelled by three days of music, craft and art workshops, lots of children’s activities and much hearty food.
Many have been loving the craze recently, which involves wearing outfits that are see-through.
Say that at the height of the Popeye’s chicken sandwich craze, there was a unionized Popeye’s that for weeks had been complaining about the working conditions when large crowds come to the storefront.
Several experts I spoke to also pointed to the skyrocketing cost of living and the scarily stagnant wages as the reasons behind Gen Z’s craze for dupes.
Streetwear brands are still a draw at the event that helped popularize the craze in the '90s.
The anthropologists who proposed the session at their professional society’s meeting have every right to challenge the transgender-craze assumptions.
The craze has been driven by TikTok users who insist that agreeing with the feminist themes in the Barbie film, 'should be standard in a relationship'.
The craze of 'Barbenheimer' undeniably revitalized movie theaters, but other major blockbusters like Super Mario Bros. MovieSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Versedominated theaters this year.
The fountain craze appears to have started after what was arguably Europe's first beer fountain opened in Žalec in the north-east of the country in September 2016.
Common combinations with craze
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the craze 35×
- craze for 19×
- craze is 13×
- craze in 12×
- craze and 11×
- craze of 9×
- craze that 9×
- dance craze 7×
- latest craze 6×
- media craze 4×