How to Use hallucinatory in a Sentence

hallucinatory

adjective

• Those were the days of people taking hallucinatory trips all the time, so it was all tied up that way.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• The episode is funny, scary, gruesome in the right parts, and hallucinatory like the best horror movies.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 12 June 2015
• And the hallucinatory spirit that has made a fool of many a mortal is making a monkey of me.
  — Mark Seal, WSJ, 19 June 2018
• Porter revisits this idea again at the end of the book, when Shy has a hallucinatory vision of the ghost of a troubled teenage girl haunting the Last Chance house.
  — Rachel Connolly, The New Republic, 17 July 2023
• Images of the items are projected on the sides and back of the stage, to sometimes hallucinatory effect.
  — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2017
• Many of the deceased were plagued by the same hallucinatory countdowns: a deadline by which to halt their research, or else.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• Some books enter you like a hallucinatory drug and, for a time, overtake you.
  — Joan Frank, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
• There is no water like it: that roaring mass of cerulean, a color so deep and bright as to be nearly hallucinatory.
  — Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2021
• The kids treat it like a designer drug, filming their hallucinatory freak-outs on their phones.
  — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
• Images flit by as if in reveries, many of them like scenes from a hallucinatory novel.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
• But many are as dark and hallucinatory as the book deserves, offering brilliant new takes on the world of Wonderland.
  — John Brownlee, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2006
• As the film goes on, his memory starts to come back, very slowly, in hallucinatory flashes.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Mar. 2024
• There, a drug dealer gives him a Shirley Temple that is laced with something hallucinatory.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
• Just imagine if Walt Disney had, at a tender age, gotten lost in a magic forest, dropped acid, and made hallucinatory love to a white mare.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 21 Aug. 2020
• In the version of the script that the actor was working from, the play takes on a hallucinatory quality that underlines the children’s tragic limbo.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 17 July 2019
• Lavant does his makeup and changes his costumes in a limousine, en route through a hallucinatory version of Paris.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2021
• In contrast is the almost hallucinatory verdure of the grounds outdoors, the world of the gamekeeper (Jack O’Connell) with whom the Lady forges a passionate affair.
  — Maria Neuman, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• There are whispers of witchcraft in the company, where dancers die in gruesome and hallucinatory ways.
  — Don Steinberg, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2018
• Yong Yang, 40, was winning that battle, according to loved ones, when police in May forced open the door of his parents’ Koreatown home and found him in the midst of a hallucinatory episode with a kitchen knife in his hand.
  — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
• At times, The Green Knight takes on a hallucinatory quality.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2021
• Aside from a hallucinatory second-act reverie that gives Jones a production high point, waiting for the end times proves less tuneful.
  — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 22 Oct. 2023
• The second gallery pushes the all-is-one inside-outness to a hallucinatory crescendo.
  — David Pagel, latimes.com, 13 June 2018
• There is even a hallucinatory dancing-on-the-ceiling sequence, although not in a way that will remind anyone of Fred Astaire.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 14 June 2019
• Instead of unicorns dry-humping rainbows, all Gotham’s Clown Princess sees in her hallucinatory state is stars.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• The result is near hallucinatory in its effect, as if walking through an art museum filled with masterpieces that have lives of their own.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2023
• Also, maybe, how someone might look coming off a whole bunch of anti-hallucinatory drugs, no?
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2021
• The three most important words in Stone’s work (and in his three best novels, just reissued by Library of America) are war, Vietnam, and hallucinatory.
  — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 20 May 2020
• Full of humor, fear, and sorrow, her shifting, hallucinatory world transforms the lives of everyone around her.
  — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• Dying people in the bygone world were said to have commonly seen their dead relations or others known to them—not in the hallucinatory trips of the near-death experience, but in the sickroom with them.
  — John Crowley, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• There are private planes and limos and cocaine and fireworks and dancing and morning-after IV drips; Baker charges through these scenes in an almost hallucinatory frenzy, sweeping us along the way that Ani herself has been swept along.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024