HALLUCINATE in a Sentence

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1. I have been subject to a hallucination.
2. It was a hallucination, it was impossible.
3. He refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination.
4. Mental disorders, drug use and hypnosis can all cause people to hallucinate.
5. In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has something about it which produces hallucination.

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 Meanings and Examples of HALLUCINATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hallucinate
 v.  perceive what is not there; have illusions
Classic Sentence:
1  In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has something about it which produces hallucination.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
2  It was a hallucination, it was impossible.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
3  He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the dupe.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
4  I have been subject to a hallucination.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS
5  I questioned him more fully than I had ever done, with a view to making myself master of the facts of his hallucination.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  Mental disorders, drug use and hypnosis can all cause people to hallucinate.
2  He refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination.