Example Sentences

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So irrational does his behavior seem to some that they have suggested that pandemic-induced isolation has unhinged him, heightening his paranoia and aggrievement.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2022

Short, horrible stories sometimes attach themselves to traumatised patients, but none of its victims is able to talk about what has unhinged them.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2012

But, as regards this stranger, he is one who would seem to have suffered some great wrong, the continued thought of which has unhinged his mind; his heart seems broken—dead.

From The Broad Highway by Farnol, Jeffery

Deep guilt attaches to the man who, by persuasion or ridicule, has unhinged the moral feelings of another, or has been the means of leading him astray from the paths of virtue.

From The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings by Abercrombie, John

If you had not know, upon an hundred occasions, how dear you once was to us, you might judge of it now, were you to know how much your folly has unhinged us all.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Richardson, Samuel