How to Use hysterical in a Sentence

hysterical

adjective

• The world has gone hysterical over A.I. and had to be set straight.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 29 June 2023
• The hot guys are all pumped to be there, and Kyle is hysterical as the nerdy loser.
  — Alexis Pereira, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2021
• The son ran back to the pickup and was hysterical, Harris said.
  — Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2022
• Then there's the video: a hysterical, raunchy mash-up of cartoon and cosplay — one of 2021's best.
  — Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• The others claim not to see her, so the governess gets hysterical.
  — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 9 Oct. 2020
• The mother was not hurt but was hysterical after the car sped off.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2019
• The next night, the Celtics won at Philadelphia, in front of a hysterical crowd.
  — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Her parents weren't home, so the hysterical girl tried Sue Leach, who answered the call.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 5 May 2018
• In the room, a hysterical Gallagher kneeled next to Burke, wearing blue gloves, the court filing said.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2023
• The point of that section was about how Kanye was covered by the hysterical media.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2019
• Those two guys are hysterical and brilliant in their own right.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 28 July 2021
• The response to player protests over the last two years has bordered on hysterical.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Since then, there's been a war of the words between these two outposts, and the resulting signs are hysterical.
  — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 14 June 2017
• The prospect of looking hysterical or stupid or wrong in front of his or her peers frightens him more than anything.
  — Stefan Beck, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2021
• Onboard the plane, the mood was euphoric and a little hysterical.
  — Nicola Twilley, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
• Alice was hysterical at his deathbed and had to be removed from his room.
  — Olivia Hosken, Town & Country, 24 Nov. 2020
• Her mother wasn't sobbing or hysterical, but the tears made wet tracks down her cheeks.
  — Samantha Bresnahan, CNN, 16 July 2021
• From sassy to hysterical, scroll through to take a look at all of the best Twitter reactions and memes from fashion's big night.
  — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 May 2019
• My daughter, who was freaked out and nearly hysterical, was brought to my house.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
• There was not a speck of hysterical mysticism in Prince George’s wife, Mary.
  — Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
• Cooper couldn't hold back hysterical laughter for much of the ad.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2023
• The owner asked in his thick accent, giving his friend a clap on the back, laughing at his own hysterical prank.
  — Samantha Dimauro, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2024
• As opposed to, like, a hysterical dumping of objects as a way to create a scene.
  — Hazlitt, 17 May 2023
• About a week later, the trainer got a call from Anna, who was alone at the Four Seasons in Casablanca and hysterical.
  — Jessica Pressler, The Cut, 28 May 2018
• We have been taught to apologize for our tears, to suppress our anger and to fear being called hysterical.
  — Maureen Stanton, Longreads, 17 Jan. 2020
• My dear friend Sarah Clary came over, opened her eyes wide, and burst into hysterical laughter.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2018
• Grandzol bled in the street, in front of his hysterical toddler daughter.
  — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
• The College Football Playoff is pure hokum, but at least its nonsense is hysterical at the same time.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 13 Nov. 2019
• The art market has come out the other side after a raft of techno-trends that, looking back, seem largely hysterical.
  — Helen Holmes, ARTnews.com, 20 Sep. 2024
• Louise Bonnet’s grotesque cartoons, smooth-skinned with protruding veins, fit the hysterical realist bill, too.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024