Example Sentences

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She concocts a fantasy, one that Arthur deludes himself into believing.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2024

It deludes us into thinking that someone else is going to rush in while we watch and cheer from the stands.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2024

Perhaps May also deludes herself that the present moment is especially propitious for a renewal of “our special relationship”.

From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2017

One good way of describing a speculative bubble is a moment when society deludes itself into believing that something plentiful is scarce, or will soon be.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2017

Since all mortal men are nothing, vanity, altogether vanity, and less than vanity, he that would seem something, and seems so to himself, deludes himself.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh