Example sentences for: hysteria

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

  • A Time article dismisses the hysteria over rationed health care.

  • Under the headline, Plaintiff faints at mention of sex, Ben Maclntyre, The Times correspondent in New York, reported [11 March 1994] about a Cincinnati woman who suffers from conversion hysteria , a fortunately rare affliction in which the individual collapses unconscious at the mention of a word or group of words.

  • These include anti-Semitism, the culture of German military units, the pressures of totalitarian rule, the hysteria of wartime mobilization, and the effects of Nazi propaganda.

  • Landsburg goes on to berate and insult those who disagree, using phrases like "their pathological concern for future generations" and "an epidemic of hysteria," ending the piece with the diagnosis of "a mild air of intellectual schizophrenia" for those of us who don't subscribe to his beliefs.

  • As evidence for this nationwide hysteria, the story quotes a gun shop owner in Las Vegas who's been unloading an unusually high number of gas masks and bulletproof vests (if ammo shops in Las Vegas are a reliable indicator of the country's mood, then Today's Papers is moving to Denmark).


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