How to Use adrenaline in a Sentence

adrenaline

noun
  • Deep in the woods, Diana felt a tinge of fear, but her adrenaline overpowered it.
    New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Whatever the athletes look like, though, there’s one thing that keeps them coming back: the pure adrenaline of it all.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Doing something out of the box can get your adrenaline going and make for great memories.
    Brittney Oliver, Essence, 23 Mar. 2022
  • As the adrenaline wore off the new reality loomed, with a long night of recovery ahead.
    Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Burnett said that sprint into action is accurate and a boost of adrenaline like no other.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2024
  • And 10 milligrams of melatonin because sleep is really hard to achieve with so much post-game adrenaline.
    Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2022
  • When this occurs, your body triggers a fight-or-flight response that involves a boost of adrenaline and an increase in heart rate and blood pressure.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 29 July 2024
  • The air is alive with laughter and glee; everyone, myself included, seems to be riding an adrenaline rush of their own.
    Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
  • His favorite sports came with a side of adrenaline: rock climbing, skateboarding, skydiving, etc.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Stuart choreographs the young thugs’ street brawls with all their surging adrenaline and tactical ingenuity.
    Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2022
  • There are many potential side effects of adrenaline, which include weakness, tremors, anxiety, and skin redness.
    Laura Schober, Health, 11 July 2024
  • The new track is an adrenaline rush from start to finish, with the 39-year-old rap queen spitting both fast and slow over an eerie, reverberant vocal sample.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Embrace projects that stimulate your creativity or get your adrenaline flowing.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Every time the Spartans needed a jolt of adrenaline, A.J. Hoggard seemed to deliver it.
    Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Wright State’s charter plane landed just after 1:30 a.m., its players riding a similar adrenaline rush.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2022
  • 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 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

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