How to Use fight-or-flight in a Sentence

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• When you’re stressed, your body gets ready to enter fight-or-flight mode.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
• Snapped out of modern-day fight-or-flight mode, I was primed for smoother sleep despite the jet lag.
  — Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Mar. 2024
• The panic attack fight-or-flight response is well-known to me.
  — Alice Bradley, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
• If fight-or-flight fails, the instinct to feign death kicks in as an attempt to forestall the danger.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• Long-term stress can mean our fight-or-flight response does its thing on a hair trigger.
  — Eleanor Morgan, refinery29.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• Don’t neglect self-care: When stress takes over, your brain shifts into fight-or-flight mode.
  — Noma Nazish, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• This is the hormone that triggers the fight-or-flight response which helps the body better cope with real or perceived threats.
  — James Myhre & Dennis Sifris, Md, Verywell Health, 3 Sep. 2024
• Remember: Your body was just in fight-or-flight mode and stress hormones may still be surging through your veins.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 18 Sep. 2024
• Stress can also slow digestion because when you're stressed, the body's fight-or-flight response kicks in.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• Those alarms trigger the grownup’s fight-or-flight response and raise the odds that adult and child will enter a co-escalation cycle of doom.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024
• Stress triggers a physical response known as the fight-or-flight response.
  — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 25 Oct. 2024
• Cold, on the other hand, can improve blood flow in some athletes by activating the fight-or-flight response.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2024
• Even normal stuff, like a bus backfiring or a balloon popping, can send her into fight-or-flight mode.
  — Amelia Harnish, Women's Health, 5 June 2023
• The sympathetic nervous system is part of your body's fight-or-flight response.
  — Cathy Cassata, Health, 29 July 2023
• Since fight-or-flight mode can cause your thoughts to race, grounding techniques can help your mind and body connect with the present moment and reset, Dr. Albers-Bowling says.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 31 Mar. 2023
• 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
• This can trigger the sympathetic nervous system and send your body into fight-or-flight mode.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 31 Mar. 2023
• Your brain is hard-wired to zoom in on violence, mayhem and conflict for fight-or-flight purposes because those acts are threats to survival.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• The technique involves tensing and releasing different body parts, which helps quell stress by forcing your body out of fight-or-flight mode.
  — Alice Oglethorpe, SELF, 10 May 2024
• Could this be a pheochromocytoma — a usually benign tumor that causes the adrenal glands to produce too much of the fight-or-flight hormones?
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• That particular sequence provides a good early test of your fight-or-flight instincts.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• The booming sounds can be perceived as a threat and trigger dogs' fight-or-flight response, according to Veterinary Specialists of the Rockies.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 July 2023
• Naturally, some people will go to great lengths to avoid triggering such fight-or-flight (or freeze) responses.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
• The harmonies of the forest resonate deeply within us, soothing our fight-or-flight instincts, melting away stress and guiding us toward serenity.
  — Gen Cleary, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
• His body was still in fight-or-flight mode, overwhelmed by the incomprehensible explosion.
  — The Arizona Republic, 14 Jan. 2024
• Too much pressure can trigger a fight-or-flight sympathetic response.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2024
• Phobias exists on the extreme tail-end of fear, manifesting as absolute, fight-or-flight horror.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• For some budding musicians (and even old pros), the very sight of sheet music can elicit a fight-or-flight response, bringing up painful memories of strict piano teachers and high-pressure recitals.
  — Tristan Geary, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• Things escalate when a starving Samuel and Nolan are confronted with a tense fight-or-flight catalyst involving the family dog.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 17 Sep. 2024
• Hoping that helped explain some of Camilleri's symptoms, Verma prescribed some heart medicines that dilate blood vessels and others to dampen that fight-or-flight response.
  — Lauran Neergaard The Associated Pres, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Jan 2025