How to Use adrenaline in a Sentence

adrenaline

noun

• But that night, as the adrenaline faded, the pain in his knee swelled.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• The adrenaline of the moment, and from the magnitude of the game, helped push him down the field.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2021
• Fueled by adrenaline, Taylor walked to the bike, jumped on it, started pedaling and didn’t look back.
  — Heather Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Oct. 2021
• As the adrenaline from a wild lead-changing, play-making end of the fourth quarter and overtime settled, the diagnosis was clear.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2021
• The virtual night air was filled with sirens and shouting, and the journalist tasted that metallic, get-me-out-of-here adrenaline flavor at the back of his mouth.
  — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• Beta-blockers: These medications lower blood pressure by blocking the effects of adrenaline, helping to slow your heart rate.
  — Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 28 Sep. 2024
• Sorry adrenaline junkies, but that’s what Oscar-winning, indie directors Chloe Zhao brings to her first blockbuster.
  — Katie Song, Variety, 29 Oct. 2021
• Simply freeing up the infrastructure measure for final congressional approval was a like a burst of adrenaline for Democrats.
  — Alan Fram, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2021
• Simply freeing up the infrastructure measure for final congressional approval was like a burst of adrenaline for Democrats.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2021
• Troye’s balmy, dance-pop sensibility and Charli’s adrenaline kept the emotions high and the energy sustained throughout the two-hour runtime.
  — Leah Lu, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024
• The sympathetic system stimulates adrenaline, which dilates your pupils, raises your pulse, opens your airways, and interferes with signals to your bladder.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• As conflict is often perceived as a threat, the brain prepares the body for an emergency response, releasing stress hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol - the classic fight, flight, or freeze response.
  — Anna Shields, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• The adrenaline from being on the mound keeps him awake for hours.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
• The scenery, the adrenaline, my car snapped out of cruise control.
  — Uwem Akpan, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• Nothing tops the adrenaline rush of sprinting to the gate.
  — Bert Stratton, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
• By then, the adrenaline had worn off, and the sun and Dramamine had lulled most of the anglers to sleep.
  — Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• For the first time all year, the 29-year-old felt an adrenaline rush while warning up in the bullpen.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2022
• The adrenaline from his fall had long worn off, and his body was aching all over.
  — Benjamin Alva Polley, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2022
• The adrenaline had worn off and my knee pulsed with a deep, thumping ache.
  — Outside Online, 10 July 2024
• Not if you get cut, of course, but the adrenaline of hearing your name is like. . .
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• The calendar says that this is the time of year when the adrenaline ramps up a bit for Sean Payton.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022
• Then came the Dance Marathon, the high adrenaline dance off where the couples are packed on the floor like sardines to dance their hearts out.
  — Calie Schepp, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• The adrenaline of game day got him through the shakiness.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 26 Oct. 2022
• But then once the challenges start, the adrenaline is just rushing through your body.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2022
• Start with a slow, leisurely descent and ease off the brakes to dial up the adrenaline.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2024
• For a rush of adrenaline, take the chairlift up to Colorado's longest alpine slide and rush 3,000 feet back down to the base of the mountain.
  — Tamara Gane, Chron, 23 Apr. 2023
• But the novel and the movie touched Americans and added a shot of adrenaline to his celebrity.
  — Joseph B. Treaster, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• The best way to move on is to calm the frenzy and get a home game against a team that expensed so much adrenaline Monday night.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2022
• But, when the big moment draws near, there can be a tendency to over swing a bit, in the adrenaline rush of it all.
  — Elie Honig, CNN, 8 June 2022
• Kadir is scared and all the more dangerous for his adrenaline.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024