How to Use derange in a Sentence

derange

verb
  • And if this fool was just mad or deranged, the gun kills just the same.
    — Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
  • That’s not to say that there aren’t the truly deranged among us.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 18 July 2018
  • Then there's this movie with a leprechaun, and he's deranged.
    — Mike Sager, Esquire, 4 June 2015
  • Kingsley’s deranged Karzai could have had more screen time.
    — Joshua Keating, Slate Magazine, 24 May 2017
  • Nearly deranged with grief, the surviving Clare vows to track Hawkins through the wilderness and kill him.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • This deranged Kubrickian series pokes fun at the mythology and lore of aliens.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2003
  • Wilde tries to play Scruggs with bad-girl swagger but seems merely deranged.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Our president can disrupt and derange people in a lot of ways.
    — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 28 May 2018
  • Kate Lindsey, as Agrippina’s deranged son, Nero, spazzed out in a bad-boy style, burying her face in heaps of stage cocaine.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
  • These shooters were deranged and needed things like mental health treatment at least as much as the things Dionne argued for.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Here, then is the anguished Dr. Calgary, who—unlike the Calgary in the novel—is deranged by grief over his wartime role working on the atomic bomb.
    — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
  • They were armed with twisted minds and deranged morals - like those maniacs played by James Cagney or Peter Lorre.
    — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • Where could a show this beautifully deranged go from here?
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • This country is deranged — children who don’t want to starve become debtors before they’re 10.
    — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 12 June 2019
  • Only someone completely deranged and delirious can negate that which the eyes can see.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
  • But the story used to sketch in such a bracing and dark vision of social critique and the collapse of civilization turns schizoid and deranged.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Not surprisingly, the reaction from the left has been deranged.
    — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Quichotte is deranged by his constant exposure to the junk culture of today, just as his antecedent, Don Quixote, was made crazy by the junk culture of his time.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
  • It is deranged, its pilot dense with improbable, hand-over-mouth twists.
    — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Critics have described his thrillers, which were both produced and distributed by A24, as tormenting and deranged, but enthralling all the while.
    — Sonia Rao, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Critics have described his thrillers, which were both produced and distributed by A24, as tormenting and deranged, but enthralling all the while.
    — Sonia Rao, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Critics have described his thrillers, which were both produced and distributed by A24, as tormenting and deranged, but enthralling all the while.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Doing nothing is, at its very core, perpetuating the cycle, allowing the deranged to have access to weapons that are made to kill.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 11 Oct. 2017
  • During peak season, Aberdeen Fear Factory employs 50 to 60 actors per night—corpses, clowns and deranged lunatics roam the space deep into the night.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2019
  • On the other side of the table sat a Latino man about Kiril’s age, early thirties, with an open smile that was either optimistic or mildly deranged.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
  • There is no precedent for this behavior in the Oval Office in American history, even in Nixon’s deranged final days.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
  • Eventually this damage can derange cells enough to result in cancer.
    — David J. Waters, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
  • Terriers are deranged animals who could probably teach us a lot about how brains pointlessly track small movements and changes; these traits of theirs far exceed those needed to hunt small rustling prey.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Because Chance the Rapper is from Chicago, the glare of his celebrity has an especially deranging effect on local media.
    — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
  • After all, the original Surrealist movement, with its urge to systematically derange the senses, occurred in the wake of the First World War and its horrors.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022

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