How to Use overactive in a Sentence

overactive

adjective

• She has an overactive bladder.
• His crazy ideas are products of an overactive imagination.
• This teaches the brain not to be afraid of it and to calm down the overactive alarm systems.
  — Lucia Osborne-Crowley, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• More in the series Young was a fragile yet overactive child.
  — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2017
• Even the balm of the New Hampshire wilderness has not slowed Rohrer’s overactive motor.
  — Joseph Bien-Kahn, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
• In the early two-thousands, Nvidia shipped a faulty graphics card with a loud, overactive fan.
  — Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• Now, that overactive hand of fate has simply been caught on camera.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2017
• Age spots: Age spots are caused by overactive pigment cells.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
• On the other hand, if your lawn problem is due to overactive weed competition, fall is a great time to tilt the field in favor of the grass.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 12 Aug. 2022
• The pressure of having too much milk build up in the breasts can also cause an overactive letdown reflex and a fast flow of breast milk out of your breasts.
  — Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 30 July 2024
• Botox and Dysport are used to relax the wrinkles of overactive muscles.
  — Carlos Wolf, miamiherald, 5 July 2017
• Doing something that connects your mind and body through the use of fine motor skills will help you to massage that overactive brain of yours.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2023
• The answer to Barnett's problems lay in wielding her overactive mind as a tool for her own smarts, and not self-damnation.
  — Eve Barlow, GQ, 15 Feb. 2018
• But as more and more clumps of my hair began to settle in the shower drain, the overactive shedding became alarming.
  — Sophie Axon, Allure, 3 Oct. 2022
• How can Botox help treat an overactive bladder? Dr. Kavaler laid out my options.
  — Beth Sobol, Allure, 12 Sep. 2023
• But not all chats are welcome, and an overactive chat can be distracting.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• Your pelvic-floor muscles are shortened, overactive, or in spasm.
  — Elyssa Goodman, Glamour, 21 Mar. 2019
• Sometimes, Van Ness’s overactive, hot-wired brain causes the podcast to veer unabashedly off the rails.
  — refinery29.com, 14 June 2018
• Now the overactive electric activity is coming to an end across the state.
  — Judson Jones, CNN, 10 Sep. 2021
• During a cytokine storm, the body's overactive immune response begins to attack its own cells rather than just the virus.
  — Ryan Prior, CNN, 27 June 2020
• As illness goes on, the immune system may become overactive and people can die from that.
  — NBC News, 26 Apr. 2021
• One theory revolves around overactive nerve signals between the skin and the brain.
  — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 23 July 2024
• When Mize starts Wednesday, Gardenhire hopes to give the bullpen — which has been overactive this season because of the starting pitching woes — a break.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2020
• Like a Sandman for the eardrums, the Yogasleep sound machine covers my overactive brain with a comforting blanket of sound.
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 24 June 2021
• More likely, the virus is gone but the immune system, having been provoked by it, is stuck in a lingering overactive state.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 4 June 2020
• This happens when a person's overactive immune system speeds the growth of skin cells, according to the Mayo Clinic.
  — Beth Krietsch, SELF, 21 Aug. 2020
• Even once healing has occurred, the overactive mast cells don’t return to their normal resting state.
  — Sarah Graham, refinery29.com, 11 Jan. 2024
• But severe Covid-19 can involve a second phase in which a person’s immune system gets overactive and starts to damage the body.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 2 Oct. 2020
• This formula is a must for many, especially when stressed and looking to quiet their overactive minds in the evening.
  — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
• An overactive thyroid can speed up heart rate and cause irregular heart rhythms.
  — Alexandria Nyembwe, Phd, Rn, Health, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024