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.
  • 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
  • The book speaks to the persistence of delusion and the elusiveness of truth.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Is this someone who should be a nun or someone in the grip of a delusion?
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Americans need to hear that most of the world does not share this delusion.
    — Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
  • The bench players were not given to delusions of grandeur.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Sib has hands full right now with the partner’s delusions of grandeur.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The real person might not be as good as your delusion of them.
    — Bianca London, Glamour, 19 July 2023
  • Jack is in his Woodside apartment, in the throes of a delusion.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • He's stuffed tight with delusions of grandeur and fetid grievances.
    — Ron Charles, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Sally, on the other hand, doesn’t have the same delusions.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 8 May 2023
  • Poor practice and a degree of self-delusion explain much of this.
    — David Robert Grimes, The Atlantic, 29 July 2022
  • The simple integrity of a word cuts through the fog of her self-delusion too painfully.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 May 2021
  • The myth of their goodness will feed the delusion of our security.
    — Mychal Denzel Smith, The New Republic, 5 June 2018
  • Munger said that combination of fraud and delusion was to blame.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Such is the delusion of the long-distance duck-hunting road- ​tripper.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 10 Mar. 2020
  • There’s a kind of delusion that my book speaks to — a kind of a communal madness.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The child was under the delusion that his father had been killed and believed that he would also be killed.
    — Grace Segers, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The film is a hero’s journey, full of delusion and obsession.
    — Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED, 7 June 2019
  • Just lean into the delusion, and everything will be well.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 15 June 2018
  • Does this delusion contain within it the hope for a more equitable world that has care at its heart?
    — Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023
  • There is no time left for more debate, delay or delusion.
    — David Dworkin For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 8 Dec. 2020
  • What could be a lie might also just be delusion or ignorance.
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 31 May 2018
  • In the days before his death, Reid's delusions returned with force.
    — Amy Yurkanin, AL.com, 9 Feb. 2018

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