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
• Adrian’s had a rough go of it, what with all of the hallucinations and murders and whatnot.
  — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Most argue that when the UI is trained with the company’s own data, the risk of hallucination is small.
  — Steve Banker, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Not a hallucination, just a tightening in my chest, feeling I couldn’t breathe, like the world was going to end.
  — Julie Ma, The Cut, 29 June 2017
• 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
• Those who are trying to go back to the language of threats and sanctions are prisoners of their past hallucinations.
  — Nasser Karimi, The Seattle Times, 15 Aug. 2017
• These are known as AI hallucinations, see my coverage at the link here.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
• Then Singer himself returned to direct Days of Future Past, a fever-dream hallucination of the ’70s.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• 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
• The hallucinations then converge, with all three girls finding themselves in a high-school classroom with Lottie at the board.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
• 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
• The giants, led by Goliath, are neat to behold, but Saul’s hallucinations quickly grow tiresome, the least interesting way to show a secure monarch succumbing to paranoia.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 27 Feb. 2025
• Eventually, a site plan would emerge from this collaborative hallucination, hopefully revealing the wreck’s orientation on the bottom.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025