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
• 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
• Will that day ever come when we get rid of hallucinations?
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Some of them can kill us, some of them can cause hallucinations, and some of them are nutritious and delicious and a regular part of our diets.
  — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
• At times, the past bleeds into the present, and at other times the line gets blurry between reality and hallucination.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2021
• Another common hallucination is placing cars and vessels in places the model thinks they should be based on the images used to train it.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2023
• Evading Detection Still, the new process isn’t a flawless way to spot AI hallucinations.
  — Max Springer, Scientific American, 16 July 2024
• Realizing she's been left to starve to death, the rage comes, followed by the tears, followed by hallucinations of birds and flickering lights and her daughter's voice.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• Those trippy visions—the crushing glass, the hallucination of Margaret in a dance-class mirror, the eggs without yolks in them—what triggered these instances?
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 23 Sep. 2022
• How much of the story is hallucination and how much is real matters less than experiencing a journey both joyous and enigmatic.
  — The Week Us, theweek, 15 Oct. 2024
• The uncertain shuffling between what’s real and what’s a very visceral hallucination ultimately becomes a weakness as the story progresses, even if some of the latter sequences are virtuoso set pieces.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024