Example sentences for: paranoia

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

  • For Rothko, too, there were the years of apprenticeship, the hard-won discovery of a classic but ultimately restrictive format (Rothko's stacked rectangles are not unlike Lowell's sonnets and John Berryman's "dream songs"), the succession of wives, the acclaim, and the descent into alcohol, paranoia, depression, and suicide.

  • Hollywood falls prey to paranoia because it's easy.

  • Congressional overseers played into this paranoia by ignoring home rule whenever it suited them.

  • Burne-Jones explained, with characteristic vagueness and paranoia, that he had depicted "a sort of Sirenland--I don't know when or where--not Greek Sirens, but any sirens, anywhere, that lure men on to destruction."

  • In the days that follow, Parry's fixation intensifies, Joe's paranoia correspondingly deepens, and Clarissa becomes increasingly alienated.


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