How to Use hallucinate in a Sentence

hallucinate

verb
Definition of hallucinatenext
Synonyms for hallucinatenext
  • The patient may hallucinate if she has a fever.
  • At the start of the second hour, Nick hallucinates a vision of Troy.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Guided hikes away from the ship brought the kind of silence that makes your ears hallucinate a dull buzz.
    — Cynthia Drescher, CNT, 31 July 2017
  • Elliott is hallucinating, so there’s a good chance that all of this is in her head.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • On the drive to the airport, I was stuffed, drunk on mayo, and hallucinating about sandwiches.
    — Andrew Knowlton, Bon Appetit, 15 Aug. 2017
  • On the drive to the airport, I was stuffed, drunk on mayo, and hallucinating about sandwiches.
    — Andrew Knowlton, Bon Appetit, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Emily hallucinates the image of a bumblebee the size of a horse.
    — Carmel Kookogey, National Review, 16 Dec. 2019
  • There are people with animal-head masks and the team hallucinates about their pasts.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2019
  • One of the girls who tried the Weetos was hallucinating, couldn’t stand and had a panic attack, the report said.
    — Linda Trischitta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Carin León feels like he’s been hallucinating the last three weekends.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2024
  • Facebook users in swing states who felt Trump had taken over their news feeds may not have been hallucinating.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2018
  • CFOs are slow to embrace generative A.I. and the fact that a chatbot can hallucinate doesn’t help.
    — Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 31 May 2023
  • No, the former director of the San Diego Zoo wasn’t hallucinating in the Miami heat.
    — Chabeli Herrera, miamiherald, 18 June 2017
  • A month later, her mother, Narelle, was calling her by the wrong name, hallucinating and falling over.
    — Michael Nedelman, CNN, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Back in the ’60s, Delmain says, there were some claims that smoking catnip could cause humans to hallucinate, but those claims have not been verified.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Drugs like 'shrooms don’t just make people hallucinate.
    — Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2020
  • If that's the case, researchers may be able to isolate the active ingredient and turn it into a pill that doesn't make people hallucinate.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • After, the system then looks at the response by the model and checks if the model hallucinated information not in the document or the prompt.
    — Emilia David, The Verge, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The bad news is that Jamie spends about fifteen minutes in a pile of dead bodies and starts hallucinating images of Claire before someone bothers to find him.
    — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 10 Sep. 2017
  • In the most shocking moment from the entire episode, after hallucinating for like 45 straight minutes, Archie is found unresponsive by the park rangers who come to try to save him.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 17 Jan. 2019
  • Annette Bening hallucinating the Taj Mahal and a yellow brick road under the ocean.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Even in his scenes as Mr. Lies, the tour guide Harper hallucinates, Tidicue stays theatrically grounded.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 29 May 2018
  • Employees blame a lack of good data and chips, as well as AI’s penchant to hallucinate false information, for the delay.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 June 2024
  • The agency also pointed to a TikTok challenge daring people to hallucinate by taking large doses of the over-the-counter drug Benadryl.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 21 Sep. 2022
  • People who hallucinate are said to see _____ elephants; 21.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The prosecution has argued the texts show the son was hallucinating and mentally struggling, though the mom said no such thing was happening.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2024
  • This is a bit of good news for free users who don't want to see generative AI tools, which can hallucinate, jammed into every aspect of their digital lives.
    — Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 25 June 2024
  • After a five-day methamphetamine binge, William Porubsky was hallucinating, screaming and bleeding out of both ears.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Though the technology is advanced, AI can still hallucinate untrue or incorrect outputs that seem right but are just nonsense.
    — Todd Fisher, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Add in the extra idiosyncrasies that generative AI systems can hallucinate into existence and you’re often left with an almost-but-not-quite-there picture of what happened.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2024

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