How to Use derange in a Sentence

derange

verb

• And if this fool was just mad or deranged, the gun kills just the same.
  — Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
• That’s not to say that there aren’t the truly deranged among us.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 18 July 2018
• Then there's this movie with a leprechaun, and he's deranged.
  — Mike Sager, Esquire, 4 June 2015
• Kingsley’s deranged Karzai could have had more screen time.
  — Joshua Keating, Slate Magazine, 24 May 2017
• Nearly deranged with grief, the surviving Clare vows to track Hawkins through the wilderness and kill him.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• This deranged Kubrickian series pokes fun at the mythology and lore of aliens.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2003
• Wilde tries to play Scruggs with bad-girl swagger but seems merely deranged.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2019
• Our president can disrupt and derange people in a lot of ways.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 28 May 2018
• Kate Lindsey, as Agrippina’s deranged son, Nero, spazzed out in a bad-boy style, burying her face in heaps of stage cocaine.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
• These shooters were deranged and needed things like mental health treatment at least as much as the things Dionne argued for.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
• Here, then is the anguished Dr. Calgary, who—unlike the Calgary in the novel—is deranged by grief over his wartime role working on the atomic bomb.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• They were armed with twisted minds and deranged morals - like those maniacs played by James Cagney or Peter Lorre.
  — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• This country is deranged — children who don’t want to starve become debtors before they’re 10.
  — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 12 June 2019
• Only someone completely deranged and delirious can negate that which the eyes can see.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
• But the story used to sketch in such a bracing and dark vision of social critique and the collapse of civilization turns schizoid and deranged.
  — Patrick Z. McGavin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2019
• Not surprisingly, the reaction from the left has been deranged.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• Quichotte is deranged by his constant exposure to the junk culture of today, just as his antecedent, Don Quixote, was made crazy by the junk culture of his time.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• It is deranged, its pilot dense with improbable, hand-over-mouth twists.
  — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019
• Critics have described his thrillers, which were both produced and distributed by A24, as tormenting and deranged, but enthralling all the while.
  — Sonia Rao, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• Doing nothing is, at its very core, perpetuating the cycle, allowing the deranged to have access to weapons that are made to kill.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 11 Oct. 2017
• During peak season, Aberdeen Fear Factory employs 50 to 60 actors per night—corpses, clowns and deranged lunatics roam the space deep into the night.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2019
• On the other side of the table sat a Latino man about Kiril’s age, early thirties, with an open smile that was either optimistic or mildly deranged.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
• There is no precedent for this behavior in the Oval Office in American history, even in Nixon’s deranged final days.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
• Because Chance the Rapper is from Chicago, the glare of his celebrity has an especially deranging effect on local media.
  — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
• After all, the original Surrealist movement, with its urge to systematically derange the senses, occurred in the wake of the First World War and its horrors.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• Apple’s new, if deranged, interest in civics appears to respond to this reality.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
• As horrifying as the clashes were between antifa and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, only the deranged would argue that the U.S. was descending into fascism.
  — Josef Joffe, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018
• The back-and-forth banter between Will and Grace was delightfully deranged; Jack is as irreverent as ever; and Karen's still holding a cocktail and throwing shade at everybody.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2017
• And someone like me — small, physically inept and (according to many commenters) not too bright and/or possibly deranged — has no business wielding a gun.
  — Amy Dickinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
• Any parent who has read Dahl’s books to their children knows that there are deranged tirades nestled among these wonderful stories, like razor blades hidden inside a succulent candy bar.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024