become deranged

Example Sentences

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Either Gale's sense of color and proportion had become deranged during the fight, or the encompassing air and the desert had changed.

From Desert Gold by Grey, Zane

He learned that the machinery in the point lighthouse had become deranged, so that the wrong signal was shown.

From The Boy Pilot of the Lakes Nat Morton's Perils by Webster, Frank V.

We looked over the book of reports, and found seven-eighths of the female patients to have become deranged from love; whilst, with the majority of the males, the hallucination proceeded from disappointments of ambition.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 by Various

The machine must be complete in all its parts, and work with a common accord, or it will soon become deranged and break to pieces.

From The Land of Thor by Browne, J. Ross (John Ross)

Or, finally, the man had suddenly become deranged from nerve strain and overwork, and in this irresponsible condition had stolen away the girl, with what crazy design none might guess.

From When the Cock Crows by Baily, Waldron