How to Use paranoid in a Sentence

paranoid

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• She's a little paranoid about her job.
• I guess I was just being paranoid.
• It's nothing more than a paranoid fantasy.
• The laptop was a gift to the paranoid and the disingenuous.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
• If this is the thinking, then Biden and his team have reason to be paranoid.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
• Tap or click for signs you’re being stalked and not just paranoid.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 15 May 2022
• Here’s how to know if you’re being stalked or are just paranoid.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2022
• This one is not super deep; Ethan proved in Episode 6 to be quite paranoid.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 5 Dec. 2022
• The episode marked the beginning of Shakur’s paranoid descent.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Soon, a throat has been slit, the death setting off a paranoid and dangerous chain of events.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2022
• The man and his wife said Howze was acting strange, had a blank stare on his face and was making paranoid statements.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2023
• But some of the lucky winners became paranoid when driving the electric cars.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
• In order to save the world, the dads are asked to make the ultimate sacrifice in this paranoid thriller based on the 2018 novel The Cabin at the End of the World.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 16 Dec. 2022
• The 24 alum finds himself as a paranoid pawn in a game of deadly corporate espionage in the new Paramount+ thriller.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• Beach was famously paranoid about his recipes and hid them from even his own bartenders.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2022
• The woman had been acting paranoid in recent days, Bouchard and her brother said.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2023
• As feelings of panic set in, Kelly grew paranoid that someone would come to kill him.
  — Ebony Williams, ajc, 28 June 2022
• Boy gets frustrated at boy’s friend, asking boy’s friend to just lie to boy when boy is clearly in a paranoid state like this.
  — Jen Kim, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
• On the day of his son’s birthday be became more erratic and paranoid, Fleming said.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2022
• Jews are only one among many groups targeted by the paranoid and hateful.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 23 Sep. 2022
• In the first episode, John is paranoid that Hailey has come into his life for the wrong reasons, and she's thrown by his accusations.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• Spacey had been drinking, the man alleged, and seemed paranoid he was being followed by paparazzi.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 3 July 2023
• Early on, however, Lukas bucked the norms of the often secretive and paranoid culture of the backstretch.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• So David turns out to be somehow worse than Ellie’s most paranoid assumptions about him.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2023
• Many people would end it there, writing off Mercuro as paranoid and creepy, but Bennedith texts him the next day and invites him to stay at her apartment.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2022
• Film finds a trio of journalists stuck in a storm shelter with a bumbling and paranoid U.S. president.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 14 Nov. 2022
• It’s based on an ancient story about a paranoid king obsessing over his two sons and his young fiancée.
  — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
• The records provide some insight into what appears to be his paranoid worldview.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• Hall had become increasingly paranoid about driving himself to drug deals and thought Floyd could take the wheel.
  — Washington Post, 9 May 2022
• According to her parents, Lucy grew more paranoid and her delusions took hold.
  — Serena Lin, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024