Sample Sentences for
hysteria
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  • They try to portray my rightful concern as hysteria.
  • Fighting down her hysteria, Meg took Charles's other arm and held it tightly.  (source)
    hysteria = state of excessive, uncontrolled emotion
  • "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)
  • I laugh, giddy with hysteria as the ground comes closer and closer.  (source)
    hysteria = a state of excessive, uncontrollable emotion
  • They dropped their loot and fell to the sidewalk screaming in hysterics.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Mrs. Theodorakis was understandably hysterical.†  (source)
  • 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
  • They were in hysterics the whole time, like it was the funniest thing that ever happened.†  (source)
  • Her voice under the strain was high-pitched and hysteric.†  (source)
  • With a hysterical cry Mary Warren starts to run.†  (source)
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