How to Use hysteria in a Sentence

hysteria

noun
  • The spreading of the disease caused mass hysteria in the village.
  • A few of the children began to scream, and soon they were all caught up in the hysteria.
  • Wartime hysteria led to many unfair accusations of treachery.
  • There was a lot of hysteria about crack and no one knew what to do about it.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The level of hysteria changes as your fans grow with you.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
  • In the lead-up to the vote, this media hysteria reached a fevered pitch.
    Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
  • The rosé trend has also had its fair share of hysteria.
    Todd Plummer, Vogue, 4 June 2017
  • This was a time of war, and the West Coast was full of hysteria.
    NBC news, 30 Apr. 2021
  • And there is a lot of hysteria around shutting down the government.
    NBC News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Pop culture has seen its share of boy bands over the years and the related fan hysteria.
    Shanté Honeycutt, Billboard, 2 May 2018
  • The risk of a mass-hysteria outbreak also couldn’t be ruled out.
    WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The hysteria set off the rest of the group, unleashing a contagion of crying that left the staff at a loss.
    Author: Maria Sacchetti, Kevin Sieff, Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2018
  • Here and there, this vibrating hysteria helps the show.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2021
  • But those who feed ravenously at the trough of fear can also wind up full of cowardice and hysteria.
    Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
  • All this needs to be sorted out, but not in a spirit of panic and hysteria.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
  • No cause has been ruled out ... but the findings suggest this was not an episode of mass hysteria.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The hysteria over the Padres has caused the front office to cap season-ticket sales.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
  • This is the usual hysteria yoked to the usual foggy thinking.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
  • And behind all of the hype, hoopla and hysteria, there's the basketball.
    Rana L. Cash, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Her hysteria frightens me and demands to be taken care of.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2022
  • There was not the hysteria that later happened in Salem.
    Steve Smith, courant.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Early on, the show seems to ask, What is the adult world’s present hysteria doing to the kids?
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2017
  • On the media hysteria front Russia may be winning the spy vs. spy wars.
    WSJ, 22 Dec. 2020
  • There has been suspicion that the ailment is something like a mass hysteria.
    Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2018
  • How much to you think his decision to resign was driven by the media hysteria.
    Fox News, 6 July 2018
  • But with all that hysteria, Mean Girls still isn't the project Chabert is asked about the most.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 23 Nov. 2018
  • But with all that hysteria, Mean Girls still isn’t the project Chabert is asked about the most.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Some people were on the brink of hysteria, (feeling) that not enough was being done.
    Bob Sylva, sacbee, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Finding a way back from the brink won't be easy, but less hysteria and more reason would be a useful first step.
    Author: Katrina Vanden Heuvel | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Last week, that was Trump himself, in a moment of hysteria.
    Fox News, 11 Sep. 2018

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