How to Use hysteria in a Sentence

hysteria

noun
  • The spreading of the disease caused mass hysteria in the village.
  • A few of the children began to scream, and soon they were all caught up in the hysteria.
  • Wartime hysteria led to many unfair accusations of treachery.
  • It was judged to be some sort of mass hysteria.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 June 2026
  • There was a lot of hysteria about crack and no one knew what to do about it.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
  • That’s where the hysteria comes in.
    — Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2026
  • This was a time of war, and the West Coast was full of hysteria.
    — NBC news, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But the hysteria has died down along with the volume of complaints.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The risk of a mass-hysteria outbreak also couldn’t be ruled out.
    — WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The hysteria started to kick in.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
  • How then to escape this hysteria?
    — Jonathan Odden, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • All this needs to be sorted out, but not in a spirit of panic and hysteria.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Pop culture has seen its share of boy bands over the years and the related fan hysteria.
    — Shanté Honeycutt, Billboard, 2 May 2018
  • Hey, guys, time to cool the clown hysteria--most of em are good, cheer up the kiddies, make people laugh.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity.com, 5 May 2017
  • And there is a lot of hysteria around shutting down the government.
    — NBC News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Her hysteria frightens me and demands to be taken care of.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Some people were on the brink of hysteria, (feeling) that not enough was being done.
    — Bob Sylva, sacbee, 25 Apr. 2018
  • More than a decade later in 2012, the hysteria was still at a fever pitch.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Early on, the show seems to ask, What is the adult world’s present hysteria doing to the kids?
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2017
  • And behind all of the hype, hoopla and hysteria, there's the basketball.
    — Rana L. Cash, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Finding a way back from the brink won't be easy, but less hysteria and more reason would be a useful first step.
    — Author: Katrina Vanden Heuvel | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Hicks also laughed at the hysteria while waving his hands as the bat entered the tower.
    — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2025
  • So the directive was, and our ethos was be science-based, be fact-based, and don't fall prey to the hysteria.
    — CBS News, 15 Apr. 2020
  • But with all that hysteria, Mean Girls still isn't the project Chabert is asked about the most.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 3 Dec. 2020
  • But with all that hysteria, Mean Girls still isn’t the project Chabert is asked about the most.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Legal challenges were our only option — but now, even the courts have been swept up in the hysteria.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The hysteria over the Padres has caused the front office to cap season-ticket sales.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Johnson was 22 when she was caught up in the hysteria of the witch trials and sentenced to hang.
    — CBS News, 26 May 2022
  • Johnson was 22 when she was caught up in the hysteria of the witch trials and sentenced to hang.
    — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 1 Aug. 2022
  • This is the usual hysteria yoked to the usual foggy thinking.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019

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