How to Use psychotic in a Sentence

psychotic

adjective

• He was diagnosed as psychotic.
• The patient had not had any more psychotic episodes as of June 2019.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 1 Oct. 2019
• One night a very large psychotic patient got out of bed and chased the nurses around with it.
  — Rose Kennedy, ajc, 26 Oct. 2019
• That is, until the psychotic break that came to be known as The Julie/Julia Project occurred.
  — Julie Powell, Bon Appétit, 2 Nov. 2022
• For most people, a psychotic episode will be fleeting, and the symptoms will go away when the drug wears off.
  — Star Tribune, 17 Dec. 2020
• That interview shows a woman in the throes of a psychotic episode.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• Which is a psychotic thing to say, and why baseball is number one.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2022
• There was a man with two big dogs having what appeared to be a psychotic episode on her front doorstep.
  — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 20 Sep. 2020
• The program is intended for those in the midst of a psychotic episode who need somewhere safe and calm to rest for a few hours or days.
  — Trisha Thadani, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2021
• His search for the truth soon becomes a quest for revenge against a psychotic drug lord named Viking and his sleazy henchmen.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• From psychotic break to coma to recovery and rehab, that was a year and a half, at least.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
• But his life took a darker turn after his psychotic episode in Utrecht.
  — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2022
• When the author of this fragmentary memoir was at law school, a teen-age cousin had a psychotic break and killed a young boy.
  — The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• This is an approach, by the way, that can be helpful to people who have suffered a psychotic episode.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2020
• Feeling guilty all the time, probably is a little on the psychotic edge.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
• One soldier who'd watched his gunner get killed had a psychotic break.
  — Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
• Pourbafrana said the man was talking to himself and appeared to be having a psychotic episode.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2022
• Two men on their way to Mexico for a fishing trip pick up a hitchhiker, who turns out to be a psychotic killer.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 July 2021
• But not much could lure me out of my own poor body image and lack of self-esteem that led me down a psychotic rabbit-hole of obsession.
  — Nia Shumake, refinery29.com, 5 Oct. 2022
• The catch is that this knife is psychotic and begs you to stab anything and everything, including yourself.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2022
• Webber killed the girl at the residence of Webber’s mother in Bloomingdale in the depths of what experts say was a psychotic break.
  — Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• During a psychotic episode, Bill had shot and killed a college student at a campus pizza shop.
  — Vincent Granata, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2021
• Someone like that could have a psychotic break, be schizophrenic.’ Right?
  — John Semley, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2020
• For two months, Martha and Paul Stringer pushed to find out what was happening with their 28-year-old daughter after her latest psychotic break.
  — Jo Ciavaglia, USA TODAY, 20 June 2020
• Brandon Staglin had his first psychotic break in 1990, the summer after his freshman year at Dartmouth.
  — Abigail Jones, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
• But like all tense and psychotic thrillers must, things wrapped up with a sense of relative catharsis and resolution.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2021
• If the Galvins were born decades later there would be less of a stigma and more of a watching out for early warning signs that would have limited the number of psychotic breaks.
  — Kate Tuttle, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• That is the question that must be asked about how police in Rochester, N.Y., treated a 41-year-old Black man who was experiencing a psychotic episode.
  — Editorial Washington Post, Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
• Listening back to the recording of this song really felt like a moment to me—and of course, the music video had to be a moment too…a twisted, psychotic moment.
  — Charli Xcx, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2022
• For those who already have schizophrenia, cannabis can trigger psychotic episodes.
  — Abigail Jones, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024