How to Use hallucinate in a Sentence

hallucinate

verb
  • The patient may hallucinate if she has a fever.
  • So what if the compass hallucinates half the time?
    — Caroline Rose Giuliani, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
  • Elliott is hallucinating, so there’s a good chance that all of this is in her head.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • In fact, his own uncle once pulled out a gun at a grocery store while hallucinating.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • What if a person was hallucinating, and a voice told them to commit the crime?
    — Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
  • There are people with animal-head masks and the team hallucinates about their pasts.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Carin León feels like he’s been hallucinating the last three weekends.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2024
  • These large language models also can hallucinate, or make things up.
    — Idaho Statesman, 13 Oct. 2025
  • At the start of the second hour, Nick hallucinates a vision of Troy.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Most notably, the line is crossed when AI hallucinates facts or strips away human voice.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026
  • Emily hallucinates the image of a bumblebee the size of a horse.
    — Carmel Kookogey, National Review, 16 Dec. 2019
  • That was long after one of the strangest starts to a game that could be imagined or concocted or hallucinated.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Paranoid people shown a group of dots are prone to hallucinate one chasing another.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Colby scrambles through someone else’s bag like way back in season two, and someone hallucinates beef jerky.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026
  • On the drive to the airport, I was stuffed, drunk on mayo, and hallucinating about sandwiches.
    — Andrew Knowlton, Bon Appetit, 15 Aug. 2017
  • There’s always the fear that AI is going to hallucinate or come to a conclusion that just doesn’t make sense.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • He is hallucinated, by a woman under the effects of the drug Mandrax.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Jan. 2025
  • One of the girls who tried the Weetos was hallucinating, couldn’t stand and had a panic attack, the report said.
    — Linda Trischitta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Whitford suggests this may be a sign that these participants had the potential to hallucinate.
    — Hannah Seo, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2025
  • If that's the case, researchers may be able to isolate the active ingredient and turn it into a pill that doesn't make people hallucinate.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • While Sam begins hallucinating people as puppets, Justin breaks up with him.
    — Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And there is operational risk, as AI is known to hallucinate, leading to errors that are scaled.
    — Tamsin Gable, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The line was that lawyers weren’t technologists, by gosh, so how could they be held to comprehend that AI can hallucinate?
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • Importantly, users should be informed that these models can hallucinate.
    — Mohamed Suliman, Boston Herald, 15 May 2026
  • The weather was accurate but the towns were hallucinated by the computer program.
    — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2026
  • An enterprise agent hallucinating an action inside a system of record becomes a business risk.
    — Larry English, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • If proper guardrails aren’t put in place, AI can hallucinate wildly and give bogus information to users.
    — Jeremy H. Gottschalk, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • There has already been a lot of research on how LLMs can hallucinate false information.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The prosecution has argued the texts show the son was hallucinating and mentally struggling, though the mom said no such thing was happening.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2024
  • You’ve been known to hallucinate, make mistakes and sometimes spread misinformation.
    — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2026

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