Example Sentences

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Meakins and Allen keep the audience guessing as to whether Kayla is hallucinating the grotesque scenarios the game keeps throwing at her.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2022

And when the possibility that Man 1 is hallucinating is floated, it feels perfunctory.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2022

When Sherlock is hallucinating in “The Abominable Bride,” an imagined Moriarty calls himself the virus in the hard drive that is Sherlock’s mind.

From Time • Dec. 25, 2016

‘My mother is hallucinating and seeing dead people. Do something about it!’

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2016

We talk for a bit and he relaxes and realizes he is hallucinating but as I leave I hear him say loudly again, “Get out of the sled.…”

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen