How to Use psychotic in a Sentence

psychotic

adjective
  • He was diagnosed as psychotic.
  • Did Evy trip down the stairs in the midst of a psychotic break?
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Which is a psychotic thing to say, and why baseball is number one.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2022
  • One night a very large psychotic patient got out of bed and chased the nurses around with it.
    — Rose Kennedy, ajc, 26 Oct. 2019
  • One soldier who'd watched his gunner get killed had a psychotic break.
    — Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
  • There was a man with two big dogs having what appeared to be a psychotic episode on her front doorstep.
    — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 20 Sep. 2020
  • But his life took a darker turn after his psychotic episode in Utrecht.
    — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2022
  • That interview shows a woman in the throes of a psychotic episode.
    — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Thank god because the Special pitch was, said with love to my younger self, psychotic.
    — Ryan O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 4 May 2026
  • For most people, a psychotic episode will be fleeting, and the symptoms will go away when the drug wears off.
    — Star Tribune, 17 Dec. 2020
  • From psychotic break to coma to recovery and rehab, that was a year and a half, at least.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • For those who already have schizophrenia, cannabis can trigger psychotic episodes.
    — Abigail Jones, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
  • This is an approach, by the way, that can be helpful to people who have suffered a psychotic episode.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Feeling guilty all the time, probably is a little on the psychotic edge.
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The patient had not had any more psychotic episodes as of June 2019.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 1 Oct. 2019
  • When the author of this fragmentary memoir was at law school, a teen-age cousin had a psychotic break and killed a young boy.
    — The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The program is intended for those in the midst of a psychotic episode who need somewhere safe and calm to rest for a few hours or days.
    — Trisha Thadani, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2021
  • His search for the truth soon becomes a quest for revenge against a psychotic drug lord named Viking and his sleazy henchmen.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Pourbafrana said the man was talking to himself and appeared to be having a psychotic episode.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2022
  • In the second episode, Tom spends a night in the local inn, and ends up in a crawl space with the ghost of a psychotic killer clown.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
  • Haviland had his glasses broken by a man who appeared to be psychotic.
    — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2022
  • Brown's attorneys had said Brown could at times appear psychotic.
    — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Slovak adds a chicken-scratch guitar that sounds like Nile Rodgers stuck in a psychotic loop.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2026
  • There’s a new microgenre of music that feels custom-designed for these psychotic videos.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 17 Dec. 2025
  • But not much could lure me out of my own poor body image and lack of self-esteem that led me down a psychotic rabbit-hole of obsession.
    — Nia Shumake, refinery29.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The catch is that this knife is psychotic and begs you to stab anything and everything, including yourself.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The risk of a psychotic disorder rose fourfold when highly potent weed was used daily, the study found.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Two men on their way to Mexico for a fishing trip pick up a hitchhiker, who turns out to be a psychotic killer.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 July 2021
  • But like all tense and psychotic thrillers must, things wrapped up with a sense of relative catharsis and resolution.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2021
  • During a psychotic episode, Bill had shot and killed a college student at a campus pizza shop.
    — Vincent Granata, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2021

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