How to use hysterical in a sentence

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• If he thought he’d get a hysterical reaction, he was mistaken: I smiled.2014, Melania G[aia] Mazzucco, translated by Virginia Jewiss, Limbo, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry sergeantess
• That struck me as hilarious, and I broke into hysterical giggles.2010, Julie Kagawa, The Iron King, Don Mills: Harlequin Teen, →ISBN, page 237. From the entry break into
• When he got to their nary, Olga was hysterical, clutching Anastasia to her bosom.2005, Anatole Kurdsjuk, The Long Walk Home with Miracles Along the Way. From the entry Nastia
• That is no way hysterical, that is a calm and resignated irony.2004 October 11, Ondrej ondre Scerbej, “Meaning of "Parsifal"”, in humanities.music.composers.wagner (Usenet), archived from the original…. From the entry resignated
• “He's got a couple of hysterical people in there with him.2001, Jon Redfern, The Boy Must Die, unnumbered page. From the entry off one's hinge
• Coley was seized with an hysterical attack, and my services were needed.1933, American Medicine, volume 39, page 73. From the entry snip-snap
• Women are traditionally hysterical in the presence of members of the reptile kingdom.1928 July 8, “Lizards and Snakes for Gowns, Gloves and Automobile Cushions; Eight Thousand Java Lizards Trapped in the Island Jungle, and…. From the entry snakephobia
• I called the hysterical type the extraversion type and the psychasthénic type the introversion type.1915, Carl Jung, “On Psychological Understanding”, in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, number 9, page 396. From the entry introversion
• Oh dear, is that your baby getting unpacifiably hysterical just as you're ready to create an amazing decoupage masterpiece?2008, Abby Pecoriello, Crafty Mama, page 13. From the entry unpacifiably
• And Terice shrieked again and Helene gave a hysterical yoop.1998, Mignon Good Eberhart, The Mystery of Hunting's End, page 119. From the entry yoop
• In the morning the police sharpsters hacked their way through my screen door with machetes, two hysterical tourons in tow.1998, Mark Richard, “Fun at the Beach”, in Charity: Stories, New York, N.Y. […]: Doubeday, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry touron
• Margaret loses some of her cool and her sing-song voice turns a shade hysterical as a Mudman oozles up beside her.1971, The Bulletin - Volume 93, Issues 4762-4774, page 43. From the entry oozle
• A woman everlastingly sole-sitting, not on the shore of old romance, but on the brink of hysterical mania.1904, Thomas Pinkerton, Sun beetles: a comedy in nickname land, page 170. From the entry salonical
• Alexander von Humboldt, the very opposite of a hysterical demagogue and Asiaphobe, condemned Genghis Khan's Mongols as a “pestilential gust of wind.”2019, Jürgen Osterhammel, Unfabling the East. From the entry Asiaphobe
• I was bombarded with hysterical Black Friday offers to upgrade my telly, my tablet, my computer, my phone and my DVD player.2014 November 28, Judith Woods, “Three cheers for Mariella and the ‘M’ word”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 22 Jun…. From the entry doofer
• How tantrummy and hysterical she sounded.2014, Abbie Taylor, The Stranger on the Train, Atria, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry tantrummy
• Zipping up my fly, i ran out of the park, ran without stopping, panicked, hysterical, ran for my life back to my dorm room.2013, Martin Duberman, The Martin Duberman Reader, →ISBN. From the entry run for one's life
• To my brood: cousin Michele, sister-in-law Samantha, brother Michael, bonus mother Elaine, and to my brother David who puts the hysterical in Halpern.2007, Adena Halpern, Target Underwear and a Vera Wang Gown: Notes from a Single Girl's Closet, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry bonus mother
• He's hysterical and disturbing as an ubernerdy chemistry professor who woos student Stella Stevens by concocting a potion that transforms him into a suave stud.2004, TV Guide, volume 52, page 26. From the entry ubernerdy
• For half a century, psychotherapy was dominated by hedgehoggy men who considered their style "normal," and women's foxy, emotional, flexible style "hysterical."2000, Charles H. Kramer, Therapeutic Mastery: Becoming a More Creative and Effective Psychotherapist, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers…. From the entry foxy
• 'She’s hysterical already,' he murmured gloomily.1995, John Sherwood, Bones Gather No Moss, page 164. From the entry off one's hinges
• Are these terrible figures greeted by hysterical "why-oh-why?" letters to the Times demanding a huge shift in resources from road-building to rail-modernisation?1993, New Statesman Society. From the entry why oh why
• Released but a few weeks before Gremlins, this film drew only foreshadowings of concern that spiraled up into hysterical gardyloos when Gremlins made its debut.1985, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 68, page 87. From the entry gardyloo
• A primary symptom in Parkinsonism, but also manifest at higher levels, as gegenhalten (paratonic rigidity), catatonic rigidity, hysterical rigidity, and neurotic rigidities and obstinacies.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings. From the entry paratonic
• Defective types of psychoses are the most interesting kinds, like the maniacs, the melancholiacs, the phobiacs, the paranoiacs, the neurasthenics, the hysterical, etc.1913, Charles Ellewyn George, The Lawyer & Banker and Bench & Bar Review, volume 6, page 161. From the entry phobiac
• These people regard such changes as hysterical phenomena, and believe that the sudden saints will just as suddenly return to their sinnerhood.1912, John Hutton Balfour Browne, Fear and Other Essays in Fiction and Fact, page 31. From the entry sinnerhood
• “Oh,” said the young woman, in a tone of superiority that Lura’s cousin off into an almost hysterical laugh, “you mean maid-of-honor tarts.”1910 May 12, “The King’s Goodies”, in The Youth’s Companion, New England edition, volume 84, number 19, Boston, Mass.: Perry Mason…. From the entry maid-of-honor tart
• Hypergeustia is an occasional hysterical symptom.1904, William Henry Allchin, A Manual of Medicine, volume 5, page 98. From the entry hypergeustia
• I saw it at last month's Venice Film Festival, emerging from the premiere into a hysterical mob of ‘Chalamaniacs’ desperate for a glimpse of young Timothee.2021 October 22, Brian Viner, “An epic rises from the SANDS”, in Daily Mail. From the entry Chalamaniac
• Hysterical parties on her dorm floor concussed the hallways with music and produced a semi-permanent layer of trodden chips flypapered onto the carpet by spilled beer.2010, The Malahat Review - Issues 170-173, page 20. From the entry flypaper
• In one handwritten memo, the writer refers to the Garda report in a scathing and sarcastic manner and calls it 'a hysterical attempt to cover up a GUBU'.2006, Gerry O'Carroll, The Sheriff: A Detective's Story, Mainstream Publishing Company. From the entry GUBU
• “Mike, did you know we're in a fight?” We thought it was hysterical, and even joked about actually faking a fight just to throw gasoline on the fire.2005, Andrew Kamenetzky, Fishing on the Edge: He's Not Your Father's Fisherman, Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 207. From the entry throw gasoline on the fire
• Lester found the entire process hysterical, although he was less amused by the antics of the Danzigers, who played good cop–bad cop with him whenever money was mentioned.1995, Andrew Yule, Richard Lester and the Beatles, Plume Books. From the entry good cop–bad cop
• The hysterical claims and missionary-like zeal exhibited by groups who wish to impose their vision of the good upon others is symptomatic of certain asocializing forces in our society.1985, Douglas J. Den Uyl, “Smoking, Human Rights, and Civil Liberties”, in Robert D. Tollison, editor, Smoking and Society, Lexington, MA…. From the entry asocialize
• The men grew nerveracked and hysterical, after months of having every wish gratified and of being unable to imagine anything — except freedom — which was not instantly provided.1959, Will Jenkins, Monsters and such, page 26. From the entry nerveracked

Meaning of hysterical

1. adjective Of, or arising from hysteria.
2. adjective Having, or prone to having hysterics.
3. adjective Provoking uncontrollable laughter.

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Questions about hysterical in a sentence

How do you use hysterical in a sentence?

Hysterical is used as an adjective. For example: “If he thought he’d get a hysterical reaction, he was mistaken: I smiled.”

What is a short sentence with hysterical?

“'She’s hysterical already,' he murmured gloomily.”

What does hysterical mean?

Hysterical means of, or arising from hysteria.