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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