How to Use delusion in a Sentence

delusion

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  • She is under the delusion that we will finish on time.
  • He has delusions about how much money he can make at that job.
  • As the illness progressed, his delusions took over and he had violent outbursts.
  • He is living under the delusion that he is incapable of making mistakes.
  • These delusions can appear in a number of different ways.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The delusions often have to do with a fear that the child will be harmed by someone else and the mom has to kill them to protect them.
    — Bree Burkitt, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2020
  • But falsehood, corruption, and delusions do not go so gently; they must be unravelled, picked apart.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • That his grandfather lost his faculties, and his delusions resulted in the death of his grandson.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Both evaluators said Pavelich continued to show signs of delusions and paranoia.
    — Tom Olsen, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Designers and retailers seem stuck in a delusion that the average woman is a size 2 without breasts, hips or a butt.
    — Urmila Ramakrishnan, SFChronicle.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The sound design booms and rattles, the delusions are even more elaborate and the body horror is even bloodier and more disturbing.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The sound design booms and rattles, the delusions are even more elaborate, and the body horror is even bloodier and more disturbing.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The vast majority traveled by car, with just enough snow cleared from the windows to suggest the delusion of responsibility.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 30 Nov. 2019
  • His lawyer accused her of delusion and paranoia, fueling attacks against her in conservative media outlets.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The modern era has even deeper delusions about writers’ bad behavior as a contributor to literary success.
    — Sarah Ruden, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The singer’s best songs are often populated by unreliable narrators who come to a reckoning, a moment of truth that punctures self-delusion.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The Squid embodies suspicious cynicism and pretentious delusions of grandeur.
    — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE.com, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Facebook could have spent the past two years quietly building up its security, content moderation, and fused messaging systems without bombast or delusions of grandeur.
    — Wired, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Dorothy is portrayed as an overambitious figure of fun immersed in her delusion; Leanne is a cipher whose true identity and motivations sustain the mystery of the series.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2020
  • There was a sense that this was all a strange delusion.
    — Jim Farber, Vulture, 5 May 2022
  • On the other hand, the law is the conjurer of a delusion.
    — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Hold on to the side of the boat as Smoove spins his tale of confusion and, well, delusion.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 12 July 2021
  • Jack is in his Woodside apartment, in the throes of a delusion.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The book speaks to the persistence of delusion and the elusiveness of truth.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Such is the delusion of the long-distance duck-hunting road- ​tripper.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Sally, on the other hand, doesn’t have the same delusions.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 8 May 2023
  • Is this someone who should be a nun or someone in the grip of a delusion?
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
  • It’s called the Truman Show delusion, after the 1998 movie.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Sib has hands full right now with the partner’s delusions of grandeur.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, the idea that some Black woman would seems to be something of a mass delusion.
    — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023

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