Example sentences for: delusion

How can you use “delusion” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hard-core conservatives, who dominate the Republican side of the committee and who willfully refuse to learn anything from the election, still suffer from the delusion that they can beat Clinton.

  • That's either a delusion of grandeur or an elevation of your own desire for satisfaction above the recipients' need for food.

  • Anyone laboring under the delusion that English is not an acquisitive language should be disabused by the following caption from an article about delicatessens that appeared in the Magazine Section of The Sunday Times [London], 7 January 1989: [“Foreignisms” are so set in the original.

  • So let us note: James Joyce's novel is Finnegans Wake (1939), not “Finnegan's,” E. M. Forster's is Howards End (1910) (another house name, by the way), not “Howard's,” and, a potential double delusion, Shakespeare's famous play is Love's Labour's Lost (1598), with two apostrophes.

  • For another, a certain amount of bicameral delusion has seeped over from America.


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