How to Use hallucination in a Sentence

hallucination

noun
  • He could not tell if what he was seeing was real or if it was a hallucination.
  • He has been having hallucinations due to the medication.
  • There are sheer cliffs that come out of prairies as if in a hallucination.
    — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
  • No one in the field has yet solved the hallucination problem.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • No one in the field has yet solved the hallucination problems.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The whole years-long debate may soon feel like a hallucination, too.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
  • And if [Payne] was in a hallucination state, then who knows what would happen.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Had a very bad night and still trying to find the balance between pain meds and hallucination.
    — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Are the meerkats that appear near the end of the story real or a hallucination?
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
  • Weak from blood loss, the 13-year-old wasn’t sure what was real and what was hallucination.
    — Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • Adrian’s had a rough go of it, what with all of the hallucinations and murders and whatnot.
    — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Which hallucinations has the reader already built out of rose petals?
    — Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In the penultimate song, a strange vision of three suns flirts at the edge of hallucination.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Between hallucinations and hacking, there will have to be a role for physicians.
    — Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 23 Nov. 2025
  • From hallucinations to rogue agents, there are some very clear risks that come with using AI.
    — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 16 June 2026
  • At first, a person has vivid, dreamlike hallucinations, often scenes from their own life.
    — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
  • No one is sure about the 21st, which goes in for hysteria and hallucination.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
  • But a single hallucination in this context could cause real harm, eroding trust that takes years to build.
    — Ruba Borno, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • It is known to produce brief and intense hallucinations.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The ability to trust it is quite low because of the hallucination problem as the experts call it.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
  • This could not be truly happening; this must be some hallucination!
    — Anton Money, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • Those who are trying to go back to the language of threats and sanctions are prisoners of their past hallucinations.
    — Nasser Karimi, The Seattle Times, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Schneider reached through the hallucination to grab her cell phone on the nightstand and called 911.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 8 July 2020
  • Her present day interactions with the Liars have all been hallucinations of their ghosts.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 25 June 2025
  • These are known as AI hallucinations, see my coverage at the link here.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The notion that the world’s problems would be solved if more people took entheogens is a hallucination in and of itself.
    — Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Companies haven’t proved yet that their models are free from hallucinations.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The scene is framed with shots of her reading, which would suggest the whole thing is a very realistic hallucination.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2021
  • As noted above, the emphasis was on the states of evil, sycophancy, and hallucination.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • There's no doubt that hallucinations have been getting lower with every new model.
    — Tarun Galagali, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025

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