How to Use delirium in a Sentence

delirium

noun

• 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
• Other signs that your child may be experiencing a rare complication of rotavirus include confusion, delirium, and extreme sleepiness.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health, 23 Oct. 2024
• But these drugs can increase the risk of delirium, Ely says.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 8 Apr. 2020
• In her delirium, the young woman fought off help from locals who tried to stop her.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Nothing in sports compares to the delirium a fan base feels when their team steps into the light for the first time in years, or decades.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2024
• The fans poured over each other, a liquid mass, in their delirium.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• At this point, most songs-of-summer contenders have been overplayed to the point of delirium.
  — Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2017
• What Oakeshott would make of the current Trumpian delirium would be well worth knowing.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
• 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
• But as dusk fell with an autumnal chill, the dream was revealed to be delirium.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• First, even in the midst of first–round delirium, Curry is still the most important player in the playoffs, and maybe the league itself.
  — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Ground from a mineral called cinnabar, the substance would have sent them into a fevered trance with tremors and delirium.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
• The cavalcade of cameos reaches a peak of giddy delirium when next week’s host, Ryan Gosling, pops up in the monologue.
  — Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2024
• Some days the ills of the city seem miasmal and mental, a delirium of drugs and dysfunctions, a souring in the gut like dysentery.
  — Edward Hoagland, 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
• Those Croatian players that could still move ran to their fans once more, the fatigue stripped away by delirium.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 July 2018
• Blake Lemoine’s own delirium shows just how potent this drug has become.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
• Mr. George achieves neither the romantic delirium of the first nor the sheer swaggering gumption of the second.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
• 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
• When play resumed, the kick was wide, sending the locals into delirium.
  — Tyler Donohue, ajc, 23 Sep. 2017
• 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
• The crowd that greeted Kamala Harris in a high-school gym outside Milwaukee last month was delighted to the point of delirium.
  — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024
• The reference again to excited delirium in connection with Mitchell’s death perhaps owes to the term’s decades-long use among US first responders.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024