How to Use hysterics in a Sentence

hysterics

noun

• The crowd’s hysterics grew so unbearable that Sun Ra left the stage.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
• Needless to say, Lina and Luke's flair for hysterics is always a highlight.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 17 Aug. 2022
• Rob Manfred, like so many others who wilt at the first sign of left-wing hysterics, is there to protect Rob Manfred.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 6 Apr. 2021
• Everyone was in such instant hysterics that Hurwitz cut the scene back into the show.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2021
• Earlier this month, a tree branch moving slightly in the wind at a Christmas tree farm sent him into hysterics.
  — jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
• But inside the home, a wife was in hysterics: Her husband had locked himself into the bathroom and was threatening to kill himself with a box cutter.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 23 June 2020
• Reports of the Holocaust were dismissed as Jewish hysterics.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 June 2022
• Yet this new rendition avoids the stirring hysterics — a bold choice, given how hot the door feels at the moment — in favor of a calming deep-breath belief in the possibility of change.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2020
• The moment was enough for viewers to be in hysterics, the incident trending on Twitter Saturday morning.
  — Ryan Parker, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2021
• Kyle's daughter Sofia surprises her youngest daughter Portia with a visit home from college, and many teenage girl hysterics ensue.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 1 July 2021
• The shot sent the crowd into hysterics and sent Nuggets reserve Davon Reed sprinting off the bench, too, mistakenly believing the game was over – drawing a technical foul, which pulled the Clippers within two points.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
• Don't Look Up or Nightmare Alley, which boil familiar genre tropes into big-budget hysterics.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2022
• While critics were divided, the audience was in hysterics.
  — Callahan Tormey, Town & Country, 8 May 2022
• While Dreyfus could make a Grecian bust explode into hysterics, Chlumsky had the arguably more challenging job of coming off as the most competent woman in the room, even when Amy was anything but.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 10 Feb. 2022
• Santa Claus has decided to retire, sending the elves into hysterics.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Sep. 2022
• And while competing on the slope, she was photographed eating jiucai hezi, a Chinese pocket pie, and a roast pork bun, sending social media into hysterics each time.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• Women were seen as somehow too fragile and too powerful at the same time, liable to burst into hysterics or upend the entire family unit just by casting a ballot.
  — Aj Willingham design: Kenneth Fowler, CNN, 26 Aug. 2020
• Lost in the theatrics — and semi-hysterics — over the shakedown pitchers must now endure is a simple calculation about major league baseball that has become apparent as the midpoint of the season nears.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
• Due to her hysterics and county protocol, Orange police officers were instructed to put her back in the cruiser and drop her off just outside the county jail’s sally port, where she was released and given her phone back to call for a ride.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 14 May 2022
• Natalie was really trying to scam with those hysterics!!
  — Ashley Ray-Harris, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2021
• As perhaps expected, there was little sobbing or hysterics on display.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2022
• The inflation scares and geopolitical angst bred by the 1973 price hikes sent U.S. policymakers into hysterics.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2021
• Examples abound, but one of the latest is the party’s embrace of weak energy policies and its decision to play footsie with the Left’s climate hysterics for crass political purposes.
  — Chip Roy, National Review, 5 July 2022
• These days, that industry is teeming with hysterics who champion corporate suppression of speech.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 3 June 2021
• Well, until the last 10 minutes, when Ramona tried to casually confront Dorinda about her notable anger issue, and did so in public, with Dorinda's daughter on speakerphone, and while flying into wild hysterics herself.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• Lindsay’s laugh is uproarious, veering close to hysterics, and the absurdity of her reaction throws everyone into a tailspin.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2021
• His mispronunciation sent social media users into hysterics.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024