DELUSION in a Sentence

Learn DELUSION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

29 example sentences for DELUSION, such as:

1. The delusion did not last long.
2. However, his projection is always a delusion, not a reality.
3. His arguments sound convincing but they're based on delusion.
4. I thought the whole idea was just a foolish and dangerous delusion.
5. I know them to have been as honestly under my delusion as I myself.

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delusion
 n.  false belief; mistaken or unfounded opinion
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  When Laurie came home, dead tired but quite composed, his grandfather met him as if he knew nothing, and kept up the delusion very successfully for an hour or two.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
2  Of course, he smiled darkly at their delusion, but passed it by with the sad superiority of one who knew that his fidelity like his love was unalterable.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
3  The excellent papa labored under the delusion that he was, and reveled in long discussions with the kindred spirit, till a chance remark of his more observing grandson suddenly enlightened him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
4  One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  The delusion did not last long.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  I shall tell you, just the same, for I can't bear for you to go on nursing your pleasant delusion of my jealousy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
7  In the uneasy snatches of her natural dreams he came to her sometimes in the old guise of fellowship and tenderness; and she would rise from the sweet delusion mocked and emptied of her courage.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
8  It is plain, then, that phrenologically the head of this Leviathan, in the creature's living intact state, is an entire delusion.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
9  I know them to have been as honestly under my delusion as I myself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIV
10  What Mr. Dick had told me, and what I had supposed to be a delusion of his, now came into my mind.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
11  I thought it was some trick of the moonlight, some weird effect of shadow; but I kept looking, and it could be no delusion.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  He moved his head slowly to right and left and from the manager to the person on the floor, as if he feared to be the victim of some delusion.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
13  The rescuing party were speedily able to convince the two castaways that their appearance was no delusion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
14  But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
15  D'Artagnan replied in such a manner that Kitty remained in her great delusion.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
Example Sentence:
1  I thought the whole idea was just a foolish and dangerous delusion.
2  The concept that destiny is predetermined is a religious dogma and a philosophical delusion.
3  The novel fan is always daydreaming and sometimes under the delusion that he becomes Napoleon.
4  His arguments sound convincing but they're based on delusion.
5  Don suffers from delusion of grandeur: he thinks he's a world-famous author when he's published just one paperback book.
6  However, his projection is always a delusion, not a reality.
7  What the papers report is that he was an extreme right-wing fanatic with psychological delusions.