How to Use bipolar in a Sentence

bipolar

adjective
  • The world, in short, is bipolar.
    — Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2025
  • No one feels joy or pain as much as someone who’s bipolar.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Gillian keeps her bipolar mood swings hidden from Andy, her new boyfriend.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • And there’s a point in late teens that usually is the time that one becomes bipolar.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
  • Not that writing about being bipolar and an addict cured her.
    — Douglass K. Daniel, SFChronicle.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • There were no tools or help to work with someone with bipolar or even addiction back then.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 31 May 2018
  • No longer tonally bipolar, the film is one man’s vision, for better or worse.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Stock investors hate risks loved by credit in bipolar market.
    — Bloomberg.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • How can loved ones support someone who may be showing signs of bipolar I?
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 18 Apr. 2024
  • One of those guys was a bipolar cocaine addict named Kevin Waltzer.
    — Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 1 May 2017
  • One of those guys was a bipolar cocaine addict named Kevin Waltzer.
    — Benjamin Wallace, VanityFair.com, 19 May 2017
  • Lapp was bipolar and had a history of mental health problems.
    — Matthew Barakat, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
  • Coe, who is bipolar, worked through substance abuse issues and a suicide attempt.
    — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Therapy can help people come to terms with the challenges of living with bipolar.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Looks like Bayley is doing a bipolar angle.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Celtics never trailed in the ultimate game of a bipolar series.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2022
  • And bipolar is a condition that can come with great assets, Michalak said.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The bipolar design refers to a current collector that is shared by both a cathode and anode.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Bodden, who was bipolar and schizophrenic, had been struggling for years, the letter says.
    — Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 3 July 2024
  • And while this was happening, my mother, who's bipolar, was leaving voicemails telling me not to trust my friends.
    — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Robin Roberts that she had been diagnosed with bipolar in 2011.
    — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Now, his portrayal of a bipolar rap hype man is earning early Emmy buzz.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Mother was bipolar and kept the four of us at each other’s throats through manipulation.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Mother was bipolar and kept the four of us at each other's throats through manipulation.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Bodden was in the midst of a bipolar and schizophrenic episode, according to the lawsuit.
    — Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The homeless shelters do not work for schizophrenic and bipolar people who have paranoid minds.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Her boyfriend found out that his cousin had been diagnosed as bipolar, and recognized some of the same symptoms in himself.
    — Charlotte Cowles, The Cut, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Rentzel was a senior at Rice University when her first bipolar episode struck.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2020
  • With the onset of menopause and the bipolar, her libido had dropped dramatically.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2022
  • And my husband and I have a daughter, Courtney, who is 16 years sober and bipolar.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2024

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