Example sentences for: neuroses

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

  • Robert Wise's 1963 original, based on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House , is overrated, but it manages to evoke the eeriest aspect of Jackson's fiction: the way the characters' neuroses acquire an inexorable life of their own and threaten to eat them alive.

  • All these gents are unavailable for reasons of geography, marital status, and/or neuroses.

  • If dementia means only mental deterioration (1941 to 1974), it is not separated from neuroses and psychoses.

  • Their children's generational neuroses don't necessarily prove Brokaw wrong.

  • Paltrow certainly doesn't appear to have suffered for her art: Unlike other screen beauties--Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Madeleine Stowe--she doesn't seem to have any interesting neuroses to ply.


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