Sample Sentences for
hysteria
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    They try to portray my rightful concern as hysteria.
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    Fighting down her hysteria, Meg took Charles's other arm and held it tightly.  (source)
    hysteria = state of excessive, uncontrolled emotion
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    "What's going on?" says Effie, a note of hysteria in her voice.  (source)
    hysteria = excessive, uncontrollable emotion
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    That same week our math teacher, Miss Shazia, arrived at school in a hysterical state.†  (source)
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    I laugh, giddy with hysteria as the ground comes closer and closer.  (source)
    hysteria = a state of excessive, uncontrollable emotion
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    They dropped their loot and fell to the sidewalk screaming in hysterics.†  (source)
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    Most great military schools of the past — Saint Cyr, West Point, Sandhurst, Colorado Springs didn't even pretend to follow it; they accepted civilian boys, trained them, commissioned them, sent them out with no battle experience to command men ...and sometimes discovered too late that this smart young 'officer' was a fool, a poltroon, or a hysteric.†  (source)
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    The dining-room was gorgeous and very hideous, in stamped leather and hysterias of gold, with collections of servants watching one's use of asparagus forks.†  (source)
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    Mrs. Theodorakis was understandably hysterical.†  (source)
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    In the ensuing national hysteria Congress funneled millions upon millions of dollars into the California-based aerospace industry, and the boom was on.  (source)
    hysteria = state of excessive, uncontrolled emotion
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    "Get in the house before Beth goes into hysterics," said Dale.†  (source)
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    Her voice under the strain was high-pitched and hysteric.†  (source)
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    With a hysterical cry Mary Warren starts to run.†  (source)
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