How to Use delusion in a Sentence

delusion

noun

• She is under the delusion that we will finish on time.
• He has delusions about how much money he can make at that job.
• As the illness progressed, his delusions took over and he had violent outbursts.
• He is living under the delusion that he is incapable of making mistakes.
• There was a sense that this was all a strange delusion.
  — Jim Farber, Vulture, 5 May 2022
• On the other hand, the law is the conjurer of a delusion.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• Hold on to the side of the boat as Smoove spins his tale of confusion and, well, delusion.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 12 July 2021
• Jack is in his Woodside apartment, in the throes of a delusion.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• The book speaks to the persistence of delusion and the elusiveness of truth.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• Such is the delusion of the long-distance duck-hunting road- ​tripper.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 10 Mar. 2020
• Sally, on the other hand, doesn’t have the same delusions.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 8 May 2023
• Is this someone who should be a nun or someone in the grip of a delusion?
  — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
• It’s called the Truman Show delusion, after the 1998 movie.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2023
• Sib has hands full right now with the partner’s delusions of grandeur.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• In fact, the idea that some Black woman would seems to be something of a mass delusion.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• Americans need to hear that most of the world does not share this delusion.
  — Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
• The drugs are meant to quell the type of paranoid delusions that may have fueled last year’s crash.
  — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
• The bench players were not given to delusions of grandeur.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• There’s a smidgen of solace in that: in the facade, the lie, the wishful thinking, the distraction, the delusion, the hope.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
• He's stuffed tight with delusions of grandeur and fetid grievances.
  — Ron Charles, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
• In the days before his death, Reid's delusions returned with force.
  — Amy Yurkanin, AL.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• The real person might not be as good as your delusion of them.
  — Bianca London, Glamour, 19 July 2023
• There’s a kind of delusion that my book speaks to — a kind of a communal madness.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• The simple integrity of a word cuts through the fog of her self-delusion too painfully.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 May 2021
• After all, true friends do not allow their friends to live in a state of delusion.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• Poor practice and a degree of self-delusion explain much of this.
  — David Robert Grimes, The Atlantic, 29 July 2022
• Their rehearsals form the heart of the movie, and in those scenes, the careful blend of pathos, tough talk and self-delusion casts a delicate spell.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2022
• Paupers can eat like princes, for a small fraction of the cost, without any sense of self-delusion.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
• The film is a hero’s journey, full of delusion and obsession.
  — Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED, 7 June 2019
• That of course would be Lewis, an old high school acquaintance, who’s coked to the gills and deep in the grip of paranoid delusions when Skye arrives.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024