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How to use delirious in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective

Delirious means being in the state of delirium. Example: “A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.”

Examples of delirious by meaning

adjectiveHaving uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic.

  • delirious with joy

More sentences with delirious

  • A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.2013, Joseph O'Connor, Where Have You Been?, page 271. From the entry boombox
  • “Watch it with the delirious power trips, pal,” she warned him.2006, Shannon McKenna, Out Of Control. From the entry knock down to size
  • Xavier's won the Harris Shield under Chaudhari's captaincy, every Xavierite went delirious with joy.1976, Sunil Gavaskar, Sunny Days. From the entry Xavierite
  • Only the feeblemindednesses, the confusions and most delirious states are predominantly disturbances of intellect.1968, Arthur Percy Noyes, Lawrence Coleman Kolb, Noyes' modern clinical psychiatry, page 102. From the entry feeblemindednesses
  • I was completely delirious for four hours and vomiting at 10 minute intervals.1953 April 12, William S. Burroughs, “To Allen Ginsberg”, in Oliver Harris, editor, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New…. From the entry yage
  • The player’s instinct to catalogue the interactables of a delirious countess’s bedchamber unravels a familiar space drained pale through dissociation.2021 November 4, Nic Reuben, “Itch.io roundup”, in Ryan Lambie, editor, Wireframe, number 56, Cambridge, Cambs.: Raspberry Pi (Trading)…. From the entry interactable
  • It’s a cutely demolike preface to “Mirrorball,” which sets all the band’s gears back in motion, to delirious effect.2009 August 16, Nate Chinen, “Retro-Soul and Jazz, Fine, but Krautrock, Anyone?”, in New York Times. From the entry demolike
  • You've been delirious with fever for almost a week."2000, Ray Faraday Nelson, Then Beggars Could Ride. From the entry bunkside
  • These are mental confusion and delirious oneirism.1976, Neuropsychiatry and the War, page 108. From the entry oneirism
  • He went out to meet a delirious ovation.1962, Nesca A[deline] Robb, “Prelude to Fame”, in William of Orange: A Personal Portrait, volume 1 (1650–1673), London: Heinemann, book…. From the entry Hagenaar
  • Following the nightmarish adventures in hipsterland of a young woman named Dorian, it takes viewers on a delirious bad trip from innocence to experience.2009 May 29, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry hipsterland
  • Impaired judgment and sundowning (increased confusion when orienting cues diminish at night) often makes it necessary to restrict and protect the delirious patient.1986, Norma Sullivan, Barry Fogel, “Could This Be Delirium?”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 86, number 12, page 1363. From the entry sundowning
  • "Paloma, Paloma!" raved a delirious backer.1923 September, Harley P. Lathrop, McClure's Magazine, S.S. McClure, page 28. From the entry rave
  • A Lusaka evening: a purpling sky, woodsmoke from supper fires, mosquitoes singing delirious rounds, the clapping and chanting of a church meeting, the bitter smell of car exhaust.2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 238. From the entry Lusaka
  • As Jason Roy's throw came in from deep mid-wicket, a diving Guptill was short when Buttler removed the bails, sending England and the whole of Lord's into delirious celebrations.2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport…. From the entry bail
  • The frenzied, suggestible, gregarious, subconscious self, freed from all rational restraints, celebrated its delirious orgies, its corybantic bacchanalia, held its mad salto mortale over the grave of crucified humanity.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress. From the entry salto mortale

Meaning of delirious

  1. adjective Being in the state of delirium.
  2. adjective Having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic.

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Questions about delirious in a sentence

How do you use delirious in a sentence?
Delirious is used as an adjective. For example: “A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.”
What is a short sentence with delirious?
“delirious with joy”
What does delirious mean?
Delirious means being in the state of delirium.

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