How to Use hysterical in a Sentence

hysterical

adjective

• The world has gone hysterical over A.I. and had to be set straight.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 29 June 2023
• The hot guys are all pumped to be there, and Kyle is hysterical as the nerdy loser.
  — Alexis Pereira, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2021
• The son ran back to the pickup and was hysterical, Harris said.
  — Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2022
• Then there's the video: a hysterical, raunchy mash-up of cartoon and cosplay — one of 2021's best.
  — Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• In the room, a hysterical Gallagher kneeled next to Burke, wearing blue gloves, the court filing said.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2023
• Those two guys are hysterical and brilliant in their own right.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 28 July 2021
• The prospect of looking hysterical or stupid or wrong in front of his or her peers frightens him more than anything.
  — Stefan Beck, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2021
• Her mother wasn't sobbing or hysterical, but the tears made wet tracks down her cheeks.
  — Samantha Bresnahan, CNN, 16 July 2021
• My daughter, who was freaked out and nearly hysterical, was brought to my house.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
• There was not a speck of hysterical mysticism in Prince George’s wife, Mary.
  — Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
• Cooper couldn't hold back hysterical laughter for much of the ad.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2023
• As opposed to, like, a hysterical dumping of objects as a way to create a scene.
  — Hazlitt, 17 May 2023
• Like, the idea that this is the worst of his concerns right now is hysterical — the state cannot function in freezing temperatures.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2022
• Jeanie holds me and reminds me to breathe in between my hysterical wheezing.
  — Kate Tuttle, Peoplemag, 22 Apr. 2023
• Sirois' wife, Ginette Lamoureux, the neighbor who ran into the day care shortly after the crash, said the driver was hysterical.
  — Rob Gillies, ajc, 9 Feb. 2023
• Sirois’ wife, Ginette Lamoureux, the neighbor who ran into the day care shortly after the crash, said the driver was hysterical.
  — Rob Gillies, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2023
• Its big-house entourage is crammed with stereotypes, from the world-weary auntie in the kitchen to the hysterical laudanum-sipping mistress.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• The Age of Information is the era of hysterical story lines.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 16 May 2021
• Not that the ewes needed me: Birth was not some hysterical experience for them.
  — Amy Randall, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2021
• The song paints a pretty hysterical portrait of urban chaos.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• Olivia Rose Barresi is hysterical, in both the funny and insane senses of the word, as Helena.
  — courant.com, 9 July 2021
• When Diane called on her drive over, Vanessa was hysterical, yelling that Rodney was dead.
  — Molly Langmuir, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2024
• Scathing and hysterical, Election is a movie that could come out unchanged two decades after its release.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2021
• Though Holtz set his tweets to private, his lodging lament garnered over 12 million views and a slew of hysterical comments.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 11 July 2023
• Worse, some might be hysterical, and everyone would be looking at me.
  — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
• The boy’s grandmother, who was hysterical, told police Brown had already shot the gun inside the home and insisted the child was not safe with Brown inside.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 12 Dec. 2023
• Almost overnight, Rufo has become the standard-bearer for a hysterical movement to solve a problem that may not even exist—and in the process, charted a course for the right in the Biden era.
  — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 8 June 2021
• Their hysterical laughter takes a turn because Em is crying all of a sudden.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2021
• Anyway, Midge’s cameo is one of the film’s best—in part because of Fennell’s hysterical ability to pop in and out of scenes with a discomfiting smile.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 24 July 2023
• There are a few moments in the episode where Condola is painted as unreasonable and hysterical, while Lawrence plays the victim.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 10 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024