How to Use delirium in a Sentence

delirium

noun
  • In her delirium, nothing she said made any sense.
  • Did a lot of ideas come from the delirium of pulling all-nighters?
    — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
  • This is the form the delirium and rage of the right is taking today.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2020
  • In her delirium, the young woman fought off help from locals who tried to stop her.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The fans poured over each other, a liquid mass, in their delirium.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • Hurley just pressed his head close to say something in the delirium of the moment.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2026
  • But as dusk fell with an autumnal chill, the dream was revealed to be delirium.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Blake Lemoine’s own delirium shows just how potent this drug has become.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
  • Some passages read like dreams, others like delirium.
    — Amir Ahmadi Arian, The Dial, 15 Jan. 2026
  • At this point, most songs-of-summer contenders have been overplayed to the point of delirium.
    — Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2017
  • James sent the keeper the wrong way with a lovely penalty and sent the home fans into delirium.
    — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The one-minute countdown was announced, promising delirium to come.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
  • Such is the delirium of an NFL team starting to hit its stride at the right time.
    — Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Low oxygen levels from impacts to the lungs also can cause delirium.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 8 July 2020
  • Nothing in sports compares to the delirium a fan base feels when their team steps into the light for the first time in years, or decades.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2024
  • What Oakeshott would make of the current Trumpian delirium would be well worth knowing.
    — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • When play resumed, the kick was wide, sending the locals into delirium.
    — Tyler Donohue, ajc, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Their body temperatures soared to high fevers, leading to chills, aches and delirium.
    — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2022
  • The warning signs of heat stroke are confusion, delirium, seizures, or passing out.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 17 June 2024
  • Jordan tried to find the words that could penetrate the fog of delirium that enveloped her sister.
    — David Kortava, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The virus can lead to delirium, brain inflammation, stroke and nerve damage.
    — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 30 July 2020
  • Any film festival worth its salt will program a movie or two that’s more rooted in delirium than common sense.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Never out of delirium for the last four weeks, her responses were of course incorrect.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2021
  • There’ve been too many defiant and delirium-provoking moments not to see it that way.
    — Michael Silver, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Those Croatian players that could still move ran to their fans once more, the fatigue stripped away by delirium.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 July 2018
  • Drums, dancing, delirium—and a sense of discovery that, for my money, was far more valuable than gold.
    — David Amsden, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Symptoms of heat stroke include high fever; dry, red skin; rapid and weak pulse and breathing; convulsions; and delirium.
    — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 20 June 2018
  • As Atwell sprinted to the end zone, Stafford chased after him, arms outstretched in delirium.
    — Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Cade Filleman stood on the mound, 60-foot-6 inches away from delirium.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
  • The result is a book of willful delirium, one that deconstructs its own narrative.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025

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