How to Use derange in a Sentence

derange

verb
  • They are not deranged or crazed.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2025
  • And if this fool was just mad or deranged, the gun kills just the same.
    — Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
  • That’s not to say that there aren’t the truly deranged among us.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 18 July 2018
  • Then there's this movie with a leprechaun, and he's deranged.
    — Mike Sager, Esquire, 4 June 2015
  • The new atomic age was a test case for the coming collisions of scale that derange us now.
    — B. R. Cohen, Longreads, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Frank, moving, and just slightly deranged.
    — Namara Smith, New Yorker, 10 June 2026
  • Our president can disrupt and derange people in a lot of ways.
    — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 28 May 2018
  • Wilde tries to play Scruggs with bad-girl swagger but seems merely deranged.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Many of those viewers have strong opinions and allegiances and are deranged.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Many of those viewers have strong opinions and allegiances and are deranged.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • It is deranged, its pilot dense with improbable, hand-over-mouth twists.
    — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019
  • It’d be deranged not to bring back Storrie and Williams as the leads—so of course their return has been confirmed.
    — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Not surprisingly, the reaction from the left has been deranged.
    — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • These shooters were deranged and needed things like mental health treatment at least as much as the things Dionne argued for.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Nearly deranged with grief, the surviving Clare vows to track Hawkins through the wilderness and kill him.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Eventually this damage can derange cells enough to result in cancer.
    — David J. Waters, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
  • But the story used to sketch in such a bracing and dark vision of social critique and the collapse of civilization turns schizoid and deranged.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Most people don’t commit violent acts, but in the hands of someone who’s fired up and mentally deranged, anything can happen.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Apple’s new, if deranged, interest in civics appears to respond to this reality.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Doing nothing is, at its very core, perpetuating the cycle, allowing the deranged to have access to weapons that are made to kill.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 11 Oct. 2017
  • None of them were deranged enough to crack Williams — though Storrie, on the other hand, was slightly unprepared for the heat their fans brought to the game.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2026
  • They were armed with twisted minds and deranged morals - like those maniacs played by James Cagney or Peter Lorre.
    — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • Quichotte is deranged by his constant exposure to the junk culture of today, just as his antecedent, Don Quixote, was made crazy by the junk culture of his time.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
  • Terriers are deranged animals who could probably teach us a lot about how brains pointlessly track small movements and changes; these traits of theirs far exceed those needed to hunt small rustling prey.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Critics have described his thrillers, which were both produced and distributed by A24, as tormenting and deranged, but enthralling all the while.
    — Sonia Rao, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Critics have described his thrillers, which were both produced and distributed by A24, as tormenting and deranged, but enthralling all the while.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2019
  • And someone like me — small, physically inept and (according to many commenters) not too bright and/or possibly deranged — has no business wielding a gun.
    — Amy Dickinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
  • And someone like me — small, physically inept and (according to many commenters) not too bright and/or possibly deranged — has no business wielding a gun.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2019
  • The perpetrator is obviously deranged, but posts like Min’s might rile up and radicalize the next deranged person.
    — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
  • On the other side of the table sat a Latino man about Kiril’s age, early thirties, with an open smile that was either optimistic or mildly deranged.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018

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