out of one's mind

Example Sentences

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Most of all, they are both discomfiting because no matter how much one might try to keep it out of one’s mind, the autobiographical correspondences are too present.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2017

That's the English expression for shell-shocked out of one's mind.

From US News • Jun. 13, 2016

Well, I must try to forget, but I don't know anything that so takes the courage and the cheerfulness out of one's mind as one of these secret, dastardly things.

From The Upton Letters by Benson, Arthur Christopher

I've known one can't really put the war away out of one's mind: it can't be done.

From Non-combatants and Others by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

The effect of perspective in memory is to make things loom large because the essentials stand out isolated from their surroundings of insignificant daily facts which have naturally faded out of one's mind.

From Notes on My Books by Conrad, Joseph