How to Use adrenaline in a Sentence
adrenaline
noun-
The adrenaline of the moment, and from the magnitude of the game, helped push him down the field.
— Nathan Baird, cleveland, 4 Nov. 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 -
But that night, as the adrenaline faded, the pain in his knee swelled.
— Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021 -
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 -
As a result of the sting, my body was now filled with adrenaline that hadn’t been there before.
— Curtis J. Morley, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021 -
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 -
But those moments alone weren’t enough to pump adrenaline into the show.
— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024 -
Packed with adrenaline right from the start, but also filled with lots of heart & humor!
— Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 19 Oct. 2021 -
The adrenaline wore off, though, and his head began throbbing.
— The Indianapolis Star, 20 Jan. 2023 -
That first night, Dasani and her siblings float on adrenaline.
— New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021 -
Even though there was no adrenaline, there was no noise, there was no nothing.
— Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023 -
When his adrenaline shot up, his stamina on the mound would sometimes go down.
— Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023 -
But not enough of it teases out the synesthesia of a night in a restaurant: the adrenaline, the prep, the community, the taste.
— Longreads, 28 Apr. 2023 -
Check out these spots to get your blood pumping and your adrenaline rushing.
— Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024 -
But the idea is for the Clippers to benefit from the adrenaline of a true homecourt advantage.
— Shane Young, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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