How to Use hysteria in a Sentence

hysteria

noun

• The spreading of the disease caused mass hysteria in the village.
• A few of the children began to scream, and soon they were all caught up in the hysteria.
• Wartime hysteria led to many unfair accusations of treachery.
• This was a time of war, and the West Coast was full of hysteria.
  — NBC news, 30 Apr. 2021
• In the lead-up to the vote, this media hysteria reached a fevered pitch.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
• But with all that hysteria, Mean Girls still isn't the project Chabert is asked about the most.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 23 Nov. 2018
• But with all that hysteria, Mean Girls still isn’t the project Chabert is asked about the most.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 3 Dec. 2020
• There was a lot of hysteria about crack and no one knew what to do about it.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
• Early on, the show seems to ask, What is the adult world’s present hysteria doing to the kids?
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2017
• The level of hysteria changes as your fans grow with you.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
• The rosé trend has also had its fair share of hysteria.
  — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 4 June 2017
• The hysteria over the Padres has caused the front office to cap season-ticket sales.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
• The risk of a mass-hysteria outbreak also couldn’t be ruled out.
  — WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
• But the hysteria has died down along with the volume of complaints.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
• And behind all of the hype, hoopla and hysteria, there's the basketball.
  — Rana L. Cash, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2019
• Hey, guys, time to cool the clown hysteria--most of em are good, cheer up the kiddies, make people laugh.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity.com, 5 May 2017
• Johnson was 22 when she was caught up in the hysteria of the witch trials and sentenced to hang.
  — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 1 Aug. 2022
• The hysteria set off the rest of the group, unleashing a contagion of crying that left the staff at a loss.
  — Author: Maria Sacchetti, Kevin Sieff, Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2018
• So the directive was, and our ethos was be science-based, be fact-based, and don't fall prey to the hysteria.
  — CBS News, 15 Apr. 2020
• Pop culture has seen its share of boy bands over the years and the related fan hysteria.
  — Shanté Honeycutt, Billboard, 2 May 2018
• No cause has been ruled out ... but the findings suggest this was not an episode of mass hysteria.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2018
• And there is a lot of hysteria around shutting down the government.
  — NBC News, 22 Jan. 2023
• Here and there, this vibrating hysteria helps the show.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2021
• All this needs to be sorted out, but not in a spirit of panic and hysteria.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
• There was not the hysteria that later happened in Salem.
  — Steve Smith, courant.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Now, the Kremlin this morning says the U.S. is trying to create a sense of hysteria.
  — ABC News, 13 Feb. 2022
• On the media hysteria front Russia may be winning the spy vs. spy wars.
  — WSJ, 22 Dec. 2020
• But those who feed ravenously at the trough of fear can also wind up full of cowardice and hysteria.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
• This yearslong wave of mass hysteria came to be known as the satanic panic.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
• Photograph: Swatch The global hysteria that accompanied the launch of the MoonSwatch was unlike anything the watch world had seen.
  — Jeremy White, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024