How to Use hallucination in a Sentence

hallucination

noun

• He could not tell if what he was seeing was real or if it was a hallucination.
• He has been having hallucinations due to the medication.
• There are sheer cliffs that come out of prairies as if in a hallucination.
  — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
• No one in the field has yet solved the hallucination problem.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2023
• No one in the field has yet solved the hallucination problems.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2023
• Schneider reached through the hallucination to grab her cell phone on the nightstand and called 911.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 8 July 2020
• Weak from blood loss, the 13-year-old wasn’t sure what was real and what was hallucination.
  — Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
• In the penultimate song, a strange vision of three suns flirts at the edge of hallucination.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2022
• And if [Payne] was in a hallucination state, then who knows what would happen.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 22 Oct. 2024
• These hallucinations are such a small price for your face.
  — Megan Fernandes, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
• Had a very bad night and still trying to find the balance between pain meds and hallucination.
  — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• No one is sure about the 21st, which goes in for hysteria and hallucination.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
• The movie is about love and death and cancer and conspiracy and hallucinations and God knows what else.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2024
• The notion that the world’s problems would be solved if more people took entheogens is a hallucination in and of itself.
  — Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2022
• The hallucinations eased up, and the voices were quieter.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
• When Bernard has his final hallucination of Robert by the seashore, the old master tells his student that the splendor of the seas dwarf all of humankind’s great magic.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 26 June 2018
• Will that day ever come when we get rid of hallucinations?
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
• For nine years of highs and lows, Doug and his wife sought medical opinions in Texas and elsewhere to help Patrick shed the hallucinations and delusions of schizophrenia.
  — Charlotte Huff, Washington Post, 7 May 2018
• The scene is framed with shots of her reading, which would suggest the whole thing is a very realistic hallucination.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2021
• Which hallucinations has the reader already built out of rose petals?
  — Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
• Up on the glacier, Zeller, too, was having hallucinations, not uncommon in the thin air of high altitudes.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• One meth user at the party had to be flown to the hospital, in Kotzebue 60 miles to the west, complaining of hallucinations and a racing heart, Barr said.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2019
• There's a difference between a vision and a hallucination, and time will tell with Tubbs.
  — Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 27 May 2018
• Shunned at the school gates and cast as the witch at the school re-enactment, Nic is experiencing hallucinations.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
• And their side effects were severe: anger, full-body rashes, or hallucinations that bugs were crawling from holes in his skin.
  — Lizzie Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2018
• Billy, too, has a hallucination in the hospital that his face has been deformed—one of the lowest points that Antrim describes in One Friday in April.
  — Anna Altman, The New Republic, 11 Nov. 2021
• The New York Mets' free fall is well into its third month, the heady early days of April and their 11-1 start now looking like a hallucination in a season gone terribly awry.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 25 June 2018
• Of course, the audience knows this is all a hallucination and that Nell is actually dancing away to her doom.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 26 Oct. 2018
• In other great news: Kristen has been hallucination-free for four days.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2021
• But be warned: Apple is reportedly still working on preventing AI hallucinations.
  — Emily Dreibelbis Forlini, PCMAG, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024