HYSTERIA in a Sentence

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For HYSTERIA, below is one of 22 sentences:
I am very much distressed to hear of all the trouble your wife is making for you, but don't mind it, it is only a sort of hysteria.

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 Meanings and Examples of HYSTERIA
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hysteria
 n.  behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic; mental disorder
Classic Sentence:
1  There was no panic now, no hysteria.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  If she did not find Dr. Meade soon, she would begin screaming with hysteria.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  She wanted very much to scream every time Melanie did, and only by biting her lips so hard it infuriated her could she restrain herself and drive off hysteria.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  Tears of fright and hysteria streamed down her face as she finally gave way under the long strain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  For a moment she looked at it as if she had never seen it before and then she began to laugh, peal on peal of mirth that had in it no hint of hysteria.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  Melanie looked at her and saw that this was not the hysteria of a woman still weak from childbirth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
7  She came out of her hysteria like a sparrow shaking off rain-drops.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  I am very much distressed to hear of all the trouble your wife is making for you, but don't mind it, it is only a sort of hysteria.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
9  She knew what she was up against: male hysteria.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
10  This state of falsity had now brought on that crisis of falsity and dislocation, hysteria, which is a form of insanity.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
11  But hysteria is dangerous: and she was a nurse, it was her duty to pull him out.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
12  And she felt worn out, and went to her own room, where she laughed and cried at once, with a hysteria of her own.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
13  I mastered the rising hysteria, lifted up my head, and took a firm stand on the stool.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  Eventually the youth's aversion almost attained the point of hysteria; until he felt that, come what might, he MUST insult the fellow in some fashion.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  One woman, close to hysteria, grabbed my arm.
2  A note of hysteria crept into her voice.
3  Unnecessary anxiety has been caused by media hysteria and misinformation.
4  For more years than I care to recall, the media have served as a willing accessory in fomenting environmental hysteria.
5  There was mass hysteria when the band came on stage.
6  The band, made up of four previously unknown young actors, have provoked hysteria across Asia since starring in the Taiwanese TV series.
7  Man made global warming hysteria is based on bad mathematical models that have not once been able to hindsight forecast.
8  In the midst of the battle, the Duke of Wellington remained imperturbable and in full command of the situation despite the hysteria and panic all around him.