How To Use Hysterically In A Sentence

  • She fell backwards, laughing hysterically as the kittens pawed at her nose and tugged on her hair.
  • I was laughing hysterically as he disentangled himself from it and tackled me in the sand.
  • The inquest heard how a plan was hatched that the pair should both swim across the river, but Mr Holding had not been in the water long when he began shouting hysterically and stopped moving.
  • The class was laughing hysterically and Bree whirled around and yelled at them to rack off.
  • In February this year, social workers at the airport reported that she had cried hysterically for hours.
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  • Bernard?" Her voice rose hysterically.
  • It always surprised me when Jem would laugh hysterically if Ben zinged me with the ultimate joke of which I was the victim.
  • Once we finished slurping our drinks and chomping down on pizza, we laughed hysterically at the guys' jokes and stories.
  • However, their over-the-top rock cabaret works because the audience are hysterically complicit.
  • She cried hysterically, and said that he would always despise her. Daniel Deronda
  • Kelvin started spitting hysterically, and swallowing down large amounts of water before regurgitating the water back out again.
  • “Raise your hand if you thought that Tigh and Adama were going to kiss each other when they were hugging over the death of Liam.” *raises hand* That had me hysterically laughing in my hotel room. Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock – TV Shows
  • But his stock-in-trade is moody, gargatuanly stringed incidental music for hysterically overblown movies like Moulin Rouge and Plunkett and MacLean.
  • Drew has keeled over to one side of the sofa and is laughing hysterically into the cushions.
  • For people who find (some kind) of satisfaction in endlessly ceaselessly hysterically blaming Israel for everything – the above facts are inconvenient. Matthew Yglesias » Israel’s Irrealism on Settlements
  • We find it hysterically funny, though it is a sad metaphor for the economic mess this country is in.
  • Residents said his brother was screaming hysterically as paramedics fought in vain to save him. The Sun
  • It's not my fault that nine times out of 10 they just won't let it lie and end up crying hysterically after I've been forced to demolish their argument, their character and their entire life choices.
  • They insisted on applying layers of foundation and concealer, but I tried to leave the room, and shrieked hysterically when either of them attempted to touch my face.
  • She cried hysterically, and said that he would always despise her. Daniel Deronda
  • We did conduct a couple of seances; during one I giggled hysterically throughout, much to my embarrassment.
  • I yell at a decibel machine hysterically, a series of chirps , with unknown tones, till i am voiceless.
  • We respond, unhysterically, with the note that for six years the Republicans have been doing everything they could to shut down dissent, disable the democratic process. GOP Will Make Blogs A Midterm Campaign Issue
  • What normally happens is they fall to the floor by accident with their champagne flutes in their hands and remain down there, flopping around, chatting and laughing hysterically for quite a bit of time.
  • Amy laughed hysterically at her joke and placed the items on the conveyer belt.
  • The three of us shrieked hysterically as one lobster tried to crawl his way out up the sides.
  • The last thing a responsible government should do is hysterically inflame these feelings by turning people against each other through the demonisation of innocent citizens.
  • All the kids around the playground laughed hysterically at this pathetic joke.
  • As soon as the game warden was out of sight, the three drunks started laughing hysterically.
  • Everyone is hysterically obsessed with white asparagus. Times, Sunday Times
  • I remember a pretty bad domestic a while ago multiple units enroute, controllers could hear the kids hysterically screaming in the background whilst all hell broke loose and you could hear it in their voices as the dispatched us that they were panicking, we got to the job about second unit to TA and shot inside the house, officers have got the female suspect (mother of the screaming kids) pinned in the kitchen she is going beserk and has beaten the bejesus out of her mum who has hair missing and is bloodied from the assault, she has a toddler in her arms who is shaking with fear and 2 other children also shaking and screaming, i scooped up the 2 others kids and ushered them all out of the room so i could check grandma over. The Love Shack, Baby. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • It wasn't supposed to be a comedy but I found it hysterically funny.
  • In a typical example, a reviewer for Time magazine wrote that Carson's case was 'unfair, one-sided, and hysterically overemphatic'. Rachel Carson's environmental ethics
  • His view is that our anxiety about terrorism is hysterically out of proportion, and is cynically perpetuated by our leaders.
  • Amy laughed hysterically at her joke and placed the items on the conveyer belt.
  • It was hysterically funny.
  • On the block where I lived, I remember seeing a young woman hunched over in pain, weeping hysterically.
  • Characters sob or laugh hysterically rather than just frown or smile - subtlety is nowhere to be found.
  • The first to reach Strong, a short fat man with a moonface and wearing glasses, began to jabber hysterically, while clinging to Strong's arm. Stand by for Mars!
  • Over the autumn and winter their language became hysterically belligerent towards the German princelings who harboured the émigrés and, behind them, the Habsburg Emperor.
  • According to a scoop from the New York Daily News, Heidi and John were knocking back drinks at the Gold Bar last week when John lowered his trousers and shimmed and shaked in front of the Project Runway host as she clapped and laughed hysterically. The 50 Hottest Models: Heidi Klum
  • Particularly ‘ticklish’ individuals wriggle and writhe in apparent agony, as well as laughing hysterically, when being tickled.
  • Grade schoolers attending a sneak preview found this stuff hysterically funny.
  • Swarms of scooters yammered hysterically past, sounding like runaway chainsaws.
  • Butterfly hugs him hysterically, then bids him a heart - rending farewell.
  • My character is really melodramatic, in that one minute she is throwing a tantrum and the next she is laughing hysterically, but I wasn't at all like that.
  • At home that afternoon she sat in a darkened room, trying unhysterically to sort out not only this messy affair but also the general relationships within her family. Space
  • Perhaps she might simply reread my essay — unhysterically. Wilson and the Academy
  • Hamlet arrives, and reflects on suicide, action, and the fear of death before seeing Ophelia, whom he hysterically instructs to retreat to a nunnery: after he leaves, Ophelia laments that he has lost his reason.
  • And then, that same candidate will put out an ad making perfectly generic critiques of his or her opponent -- which the media will hysterically then upbraid. Remember, Candidates: The Media Won't Let You Keep Your "Civility Pledge"
  • The visitation staff initially looked askance at the brouhaha, but they ended up laughing hysterically at the bizarre display.
  • It's a bit disturbing that I was laughing hysterically at a leader who's orchestrating the death of thousands, including our own people.
  • If you do end up hiring a car, staying in motorway hotels is often cheaper than historic (and hysterically expensive) city locations Five Ways To Save Money On UK Travel | Lifehacker Australia
  • Like, my dad was wearing a navy jumper with red and green argyle, and he tried on a red cardigan with navy and green argyle and I started laughing hysterically and saying ‘It's an argyle twinset!’
  • Humour for humour's sake is what we want, and in these anxious hours something to make us laugh quietly and unhysterically, if only by way of temporary relief. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914
  • Ryan was just hysterically laughing, asking how it was a twenty-one year old could lose to a five year old child in naughts and crosses.
  • I grasp my aching head and turn around to see them laughing hysterically as the volleyball bounces away.
  • It wasn't supposed to be a comedy but I found it hysterically funny.
  • You watch as the waters begin to protrude, becoming a mass of hysterically delocalized pillars slithering upwards, outwards, onwards towards the shore. Faraday's Wave Garden
  • They have chosen their footage wisely — and possily hysterically — as Rotaru, Miller and editors Harrison Engle and Drew Kilcoin culled 200 hours of material into a crammed 91 minutes. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • We found her standing on a chair, the picture of terror, screaming hysterically.
  • There she laid in the fetal position with her head buried crying hysterically.
  • His eyes slitted at the commander who was now laughing hysterically.
  • The arguments between the homoiousian and homoousians would be hysterically ridiculous if it weren't for the amount of blood shed over the letter ‘i’.
  • As far as the eye can see in all directions is green savannah, dotted with anthills and termite hills, scrub and manioc fields plunging down into forested valleys with jungle and rivers and women carrying huge loads on their heads and thousands of little kiddos shouting “mundele” ‘white person’ in Kikongo almost hysterically and running after the truck as we drive by. Archive 2007-05-01
  • However, their over-the-top rock cabaret works because the audience are hysterically complicit.
  • This is the most compelling part of the film, especially a long sequence in which his mother dances around laughing hysterically, which manages to be both touching and disturbing.
  • She cried hysterically, and said that he would always despise her. Daniel Deronda
  • He looked over at Katie, who was sobbing hysterically, tears pouring down her cheeks.
  • Sobbing hysterically I sank into the nearest silk bergere. Where to land, where to land
  • she screamed hysterically when she heard the news
  • An evening at the Magpie and Crown in Brentford was certainly lively, intellectually stimulating and at times hysterically funny; and I think their cask-conditioned scrumpy is probably at least twice the advertised strength... A busy weekend...
  • Sarah screamed hysterically as she pulled on her mother's limp arm, covered with deep cuts and bloodstains.
  • It wasn't supposed to be a comedy but I found it hysterically funny.
  • A session conducted by this well-known entomologist attracted more than three hundred children who laughed hysterically as he let George the weta and other insects crawl across his face and even into his mouth.
  • Even more hysterically funny and revolting, he says that the dictionary's editors tabulate "citational evidence" about anti-Semitism published in "carefully written prose-like books and magazines". A Warning To Those Who Dare Criticize Israel In The US
  • We found her standing on a chair, the picture of terror, screaming hysterically.
  • In the context of a live club appearance, a standup will say things that would be a sackable offence if repeated in the workplace, or lead to death threats if hysterically recounted on the front page of a national paper accompanied by a portrait snap. Charlie Brooker: We shouldn't have to feel paranoid about snoops listening in to everything we say
  • We pass endless farmyards where cows doze under banyan trees in the morning light and goats bleat hysterically at the sight of her.
  • Seventy five percent of our time together she was hysterically jealous, the other twenty five percent she was whoring.
  • Some tales, such as 'The Funeral' (1955) and 'The Doll that Does Everything' (1954) incorporate zany satirical humour at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in an hysterically overblown prose very different from Matheson's usual pared-down style. Feb. 25th, 2009 - Issue 0.039

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