How to Use irrational in a Sentence

irrational

adjective

• She had an irrational fear of cats.
• He became irrational as the fever got worse.
• And while crowds may be irrational, the study of crowds is a science.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2023
• And, of course, bad ideas and irrational exuberance are par for the course at CES.
  — Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
• These next few years might be rough on the legion of irrational LeBron Haters.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
• That’s so much deeper than an irrational fear of flight.
  — Kristie Koerbel, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022
• Art gives us a place to be irrational, be wild, be an animal.
  — Nathan Biehl, Hazlitt, 20 July 2022
• And that started to bring in this level of despair and fear that is a little bit irrational.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
• But sometimes the thoughts our brains come up with are distorted and irrational.
  — Pascal Bornet, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• What’s irrational is to pretend that such risks do not exist.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
• Yet, there is one thing that Manilow has always pined for and now inspires some irrational fears: a Broadway show.
  — Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• For a long time, the use of nuclear power has been hobbled by irrational fear, and by politicians’ fear of fear.
  — Pieter Cleppe, National Review, 21 Nov. 2023
• Sometimes, what appears to be an irrational fear may very well be a gut instinct.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2021
• Panic will drive one to irrational thought and, if unchecked, bad behavior.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
• There was a rational way to build an economy, and there were irrational ones.
  — Jason Blakely, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Part of football is an irrational fight against injury.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• But the anger behind these attacks isn’t irrational, and it isn’t expressed blindly.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022
• Peyton: There’s this irrational confidence that both Steph and I have.
  — WIRED, 27 July 2023
• The irrational behavior of one man has given way to a rise in extremist rhetoric and has led to lives being put in danger.
  — Stephanie Grisham and Gavin J. Smith, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
• Parents are trained to validate the feelings of their teenagers, as irrational as those feelings may seem.
  — Matt Richtel, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022
• That, however, would not mean that a juror’s finding in the Times’ favor would be irrational.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 26 Feb. 2022
• Meanwhile, the management side is too quick to dismiss the demands of writers as irrational.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• Picking different teams to win the same game in different pools is not irrational.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• The fear of failure drives some new CISOs toward irrational behavior.
  — Phillimon Zongo, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• Talk back to the worries that are irrational, reminding yourself of past transitions that worked out well.
  — Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
• Almost all of his previous films have been labeled as irrational, but none of his films have been as flat and unfunny as the latest one.
  — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• But this week, a different Vladimir Putin emerged -- irrational, risky, paranoid.
  — ABC News, 27 Feb. 2022
• What is Groupthink? Groupthink occurs when people go along with a group’s irrational ideas.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2023
• As Akecheta points out, Bernard has an irrational love for humanity.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 11 July 2022
• There’s that irrational confidence again—the ability to move through the world regardless of what the algorithms and metrics say.
  — WIRED, 27 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024