How to Use delirium in a Sentence

delirium

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  • In her delirium, nothing she said made any sense.
  • Did a lot of ideas come from the delirium of pulling all-nighters?
    — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
  • This is the form the delirium and rage of the right is taking today.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The fans poured over each other, a liquid mass, in their delirium.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • Utah had a 10-point lead, Orlando had to call timeout, and Vivint Arena was in the throes of delirium.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The acme of the NFT market — or the height of its delirium, depending on your point of view — is probably Beeple.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2021
  • Some days the ills of the city seem miasmal and mental, a delirium of drugs and dysfunctions, a souring in the gut like dysentery.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
  • In the 11th inning, Freese stepped to the plate again, socking a walkoff home run that drove Busch Stadium into delirium and forced Game 7.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Jordan tried to find the words that could penetrate the fog of delirium that enveloped her sister.
    — David Kortava, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • But the reaction was hardly the same as the raucous quasi delirium that the longhaired younger Fowler once elicited.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 15 June 2023
  • Blake Lemoine’s own delirium shows just how potent this drug has become.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
  • The one-minute countdown was announced, promising delirium to come.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
  • The home crowd was already in a state of giddy delirium late Wednesday, chanting for the Spurs’ prized rookie to get in the game and do something worth cheering.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Through the fog of its delirium, the crowd needed a second to process the sight of Mackenzie Arnold’s outstretched arm, the ball nestling in the net, Hemp wheeling away in celebration.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In the two months since, the delirium has settled into something duller, less frantic—the keys are in the ignition, but my mind simply will not turn over.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2021
  • With a nervous crowd on its feet in anticipation of what was next — doom or delirium — Lange caught his breath and coaxed Gary Sanchez to fly out.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2023
  • Crimes of the Future is an adult film, not an expansion of adolescent comic-book delirium as in The Way of Water.
    — Armond White, National Review, 21 Dec. 2022
  • See it in a room with dozens of people shrieking, and the sequence is a concentrated dose of joyful delirium.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2021
  • Never out of delirium for the last four weeks, her responses were of course incorrect.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Between the band’s own stage delirium, the rapturous response of the crowd and the heightened awareness of time that strikes at the passing of every new year, the San Diego show is close to magic.
    — Karen Schoemer, SPIN, 1 May 2022
  • The disease typically started with a fever, followed by swellings in the groin and armpit, then a coma or delirium, then death.
    — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Their body temperatures soared to high fevers, leading to chills, aches and delirium.
    — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2022
  • The disease can affect the brain and other parts of the nervous system, causing delirium, strokes, and lasting nerve damage.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • It’s filmed inside a car, very close up, and Binoche’s delirium is devastating.
    — Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Bewitched by the music and the maelstrom, Grecco went to many of those shows and, luckily for us, brought along his Canon F1 camera to document the delirium.
    — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • Staying awake for 32 hours pushes the body into delirium.
    — Sam Brief, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • The junior raised his right foot, one-touched the ball in the air, and fired a screaming shot into the top left corner of the net, sending DeSouza, his Weymouth teammates, and the home fans into a state of delirium.
    — Matt Doherty, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Xitlali, who is often by her mother’s side, didn’t show signs of the coronavirus until weeks later, when her eyes turned bloodshot and a fever pushed the girl to the point of delirium.
    — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Since Wetli’s report, there has been weak support for the concept of excited delirium.
    — Ayana Jordan, STAT, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The study authors hope their work will help delirium be spotted and treated earlier.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 19 Nov. 2020

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