How to Use hallucination in a Sentence

hallucination

noun
  • He could not tell if what he was seeing was real or if it was a hallucination.
  • He has been having hallucinations due to the medication.
  • There are sheer cliffs that come out of prairies as if in a hallucination.
    Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
  • No one in the field has yet solved the hallucination problem.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • No one in the field has yet solved the hallucination problems.
    Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Schneider reached through the hallucination to grab her cell phone on the nightstand and called 911.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 8 July 2020
  • Weak from blood loss, the 13-year-old wasn’t sure what was real and what was hallucination.
    Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • In the penultimate song, a strange vision of three suns flirts at the edge of hallucination.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • These hallucinations are such a small price for your face.
    Megan Fernandes, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Had a very bad night and still trying to find the balance between pain meds and hallucination.
    Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • No one is sure about the 21st, which goes in for hysteria and hallucination.
    Lance Morrow, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The movie is about love and death and cancer and conspiracy and hallucinations and God knows what else.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2024
  • The notion that the world’s problems would be solved if more people took entheogens is a hallucination in and of itself.
    Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Will that day ever come when we get rid of hallucinations?
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The scene is framed with shots of her reading, which would suggest the whole thing is a very realistic hallucination.
    Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Which hallucinations has the reader already built out of rose petals?
    Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Up on the glacier, Zeller, too, was having hallucinations, not uncommon in the thin air of high altitudes.
    John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • One meth user at the party had to be flown to the hospital, in Kotzebue 60 miles to the west, complaining of hallucinations and a racing heart, Barr said.
    Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2019
  • And their side effects were severe: anger, full-body rashes, or hallucinations that bugs were crawling from holes in his skin.
    Lizzie Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2018
  • Billy, too, has a hallucination in the hospital that his face has been deformed—one of the lowest points that Antrim describes in One Friday in April.
    Anna Altman, The New Republic, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Of course, the audience knows this is all a hallucination and that Nell is actually dancing away to her doom.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 26 Oct. 2018
  • In other great news: Kristen has been hallucination-free for four days.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Some of them can kill us, some of them can cause hallucinations, and some of them are nutritious and delicious and a regular part of our diets.
    Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • At times, the past bleeds into the present, and at other times the line gets blurry between reality and hallucination.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2021
  • Another common hallucination is placing cars and vessels in places the model thinks they should be based on the images used to train it.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Evading Detection Still, the new process isn’t a flawless way to spot AI hallucinations.
    Max Springer, Scientific American, 16 July 2024
  • Realizing she's been left to starve to death, the rage comes, followed by the tears, followed by hallucinations of birds and flickering lights and her daughter's voice.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Those trippy visions—the crushing glass, the hallucination of Margaret in a dance-class mirror, the eggs without yolks in them—what triggered these instances?
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 23 Sep. 2022
  • How much of the story is hallucination and how much is real matters less than experiencing a journey both joyous and enigmatic.
    The Week Us, theweek, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The uncertain shuffling between what’s real and what’s a very visceral hallucination ultimately becomes a weakness as the story progresses, even if some of the latter sequences are virtuoso set pieces.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024

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