If I sound paranoid, it's because the last 3 weeks have changed my entire outlook on this country.

I know it sounds paranoid, but I've heard of cases like this.

Now you can tell this to other people without sounding paranoid because it's "true."

I know that sounds somewhat paranoid, but he really is the only one of the friends who had anything like a motive.

"I don't mean to sound paranoid, but everything seems to be happening to me."

I guess I'd have to say it sounds a little paranoid to me.

She was starting to sound paranoid, but Jack measured his words.

"It's going to sound paranoid, but do you think somebody's watching us now?"

In the short retrospect of seven years, the questions now sound even more paranoid than they did then.

Listen, I don't know how to ask this next question without sounding totally paranoid.