How to Use delusion in a Sentence

delusion

noun

• She is under the delusion that we will finish on time.
• He has delusions about how much money he can make at that job.
• As the illness progressed, his delusions took over and he had violent outbursts.
• He is living under the delusion that he is incapable of making mistakes.
• So few had any real faith in fallout shelter delusions or duck and cover nonsense.
  — Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024
• The family knew that Sardy’s mother suffered from delusions, but felt helpless to do anything about it.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2019
• Keller said Sunday that Intel can sustain that delusion, but that smaller transistors will be just one part of how.
  — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 3 July 2019
• There is no delusion of him masquerading as Draymond Green, making difficult reads at full speed.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 8 June 2019
• In these stories, the borders between hope, delusion and dishonesty are hazy and heavily trafficked.
  — Laura Kolbe, WSJ, 12 July 2019
• Entertaining these delusions could threaten our agency as voters.
  — David Becker, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
• This time, though, the Republicans are engaging in an even more dangerous delusion.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 28 July 2019
• Charitable friends from England secured his release, but Brummell spent his final days in a state of severe depression and self-delusion.
  — Ignacio Peyró, National Geographic, 18 June 2019
• Nearly five days later, officials began to notice Wesley's increased delusions and symptoms of mental illness.
  — Sydney Czyzon, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2019
• Embedded in this oblivion are both the liberal delusion that people are naturally good and the neoliberal sophistry that the market, like the tide, will raise everyone up with it.
  — Dale Peck, The New Republic, 12 July 2019
• Dominique Jackson does an excellent job selling us on the delusion that Electra lives in, and at providing us with this comically bad performance.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 24 July 2019
• There was a sense that this was all a strange delusion.
  — Jim Farber, Vulture, 5 May 2022
• On the other hand, the law is the conjurer of a delusion.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• Hold on to the side of the boat as Smoove spins his tale of confusion and, well, delusion.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 12 July 2021
• Jack is in his Woodside apartment, in the throes of a delusion.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• The book speaks to the persistence of delusion and the elusiveness of truth.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• Such is the delusion of the long-distance duck-hunting road- ​tripper.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 10 Mar. 2020
• Sally, on the other hand, doesn’t have the same delusions.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 8 May 2023
• Is this someone who should be a nun or someone in the grip of a delusion?
  — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
• It’s called the Truman Show delusion, after the 1998 movie.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2023
• Sib has hands full right now with the partner’s delusions of grandeur.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• In fact, the idea that some Black woman would seems to be something of a mass delusion.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• Americans need to hear that most of the world does not share this delusion.
  — Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
• The drugs are meant to quell the type of paranoid delusions that may have fueled last year’s crash.
  — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
• The bench players were not given to delusions of grandeur.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Pic follow Vietnam veteran Jonathan Teller, who suffers from guilt and paranoid delusions.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Dec 2024