How to Use delirium in a Sentence
delirium
noun- In her delirium, nothing she said made any sense.
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The connection post-workout might have stemmed from the intensity of pushing our physical limits or possibly from the delirium of not knowing what had just happened.
— Jillian Salas, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024 -
Did a lot of ideas come from the delirium of pulling all-nighters?
— Dan Reilly, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021 -
This is the form the delirium and rage of the right is taking today.
— Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2020 -
But these drugs can increase the risk of delirium, Ely says.
— Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 8 Apr. 2020 -
In her delirium, the young woman fought off help from locals who tried to stop her.
— Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 22 Feb. 2018 -
Nothing in sports compares to the delirium a fan base feels when their team steps into the light for the first time in years, or decades.
— Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2024 -
The fans poured over each other, a liquid mass, in their delirium.
— New York Times, 4 May 2022 -
At this point, most songs-of-summer contenders have been overplayed to the point of delirium.
— Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2017 -
What Oakeshott would make of the current Trumpian delirium would be well worth knowing.
— Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018 -
Utah had a 10-point lead, Orlando had to call timeout, and Vivint Arena was in the throes of delirium.
— Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Feb. 2022 -
The acme of the NFT market — or the height of its delirium, depending on your point of view — is probably Beeple.
— New York Times, 12 May 2021 -
But as dusk fell with an autumnal chill, the dream was revealed to be delirium.
— The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017 -
First, even in the midst of first–round delirium, Curry is still the most important player in the playoffs, and maybe the league itself.
— Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 27 Apr. 2018 -
Ground from a mineral called cinnabar, the substance would have sent them into a fevered trance with tremors and delirium.
— Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024 -
The cavalcade of cameos reaches a peak of giddy delirium when next week’s host, Ryan Gosling, pops up in the monologue.
— Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2024 -
Some days the ills of the city seem miasmal and mental, a delirium of drugs and dysfunctions, a souring in the gut like dysentery.
— Edward Hoagland, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023 -
In the 11th inning, Freese stepped to the plate again, socking a walkoff home run that drove Busch Stadium into delirium and forced Game 7.
— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023 -
Jordan tried to find the words that could penetrate the fog of delirium that enveloped her sister.
— David Kortava, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021 -
But the reaction was hardly the same as the raucous quasi delirium that the longhaired younger Fowler once elicited.
— Bill Pennington, New York Times, 15 June 2023 -
Those Croatian players that could still move ran to their fans once more, the fatigue stripped away by delirium.
— Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 July 2018 -
Blake Lemoine’s own delirium shows just how potent this drug has become.
— Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022 -
Mr. George achieves neither the romantic delirium of the first nor the sheer swaggering gumption of the second.
— Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017 -
The one-minute countdown was announced, promising delirium to come.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023 -
The home crowd was already in a state of giddy delirium late Wednesday, chanting for the Spurs’ prized rookie to get in the game and do something worth cheering.
— Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Nov. 2021 -
Through the fog of its delirium, the crowd needed a second to process the sight of Mackenzie Arnold’s outstretched arm, the ball nestling in the net, Hemp wheeling away in celebration.
— Rory Smith, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023 -
When play resumed, the kick was wide, sending the locals into delirium.
— Tyler Donohue, ajc, 23 Sep. 2017 -
In the two months since, the delirium has settled into something duller, less frantic—the keys are in the ignition, but my mind simply will not turn over.
— Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2021 -
The virus can lead to delirium, brain inflammation, stroke and nerve damage.
— Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 30 July 2020 -
The warning signs of heat stroke are confusion, delirium, seizures, or passing out.
— Umair Irfan, Vox, 17 June 2024
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