How to Use phobic in a Sentence

phobic

adjective

• She is phobic about heights.
• Parents of noise-phobic dogs and cats start to get uneasy this time of year.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 26 June 2020
• There is still no cure for noise-phobic pets, but there are ways to comfort them.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 26 June 2020
• That can mean a stressful week for people with noise-phobic pets.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, courant.com, 22 June 2018
• This 4th of July holiday will be a long stretch of misery for noise-phobic dogs.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 28 June 2019
• Next to the skin is a high-tech, moisture-phobic fiber than wicks moisture quickly out to the merino outer layer.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 23 July 2020
• For needle phobic people, McMurtry suggests sticking to a plan to guide yourself through the process.
  — Tara Law, Time, 7 May 2021
• This solution is ideal for pets that are anxious, stressed, or phobic.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2022
• But there are also the good reasons, often overlooked in leisure-phobic culture.
  — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 5 July 2021
• Inflation-phobic Germany just saw prices rise in November by 5.2%, a 29-year record.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2021
• For needle-phobic adults, one brand uses a needle-free jet injector that pushes vaccine through the skin.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
• Strategy with color-phobic clients: Show them how little hits of color can have a major impact.
  — Tim McKeough, House Beautiful, 29 Aug. 2016
• Your pediatrician likely has dealt with many needle-phobic children and might have ideas for easing your child's fears.
  — Moira Szilagyi, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021
• To me, this is not just an argument for digital detox, or a smartphone-phobic repackaging of the familiar idea that the journey is the destination.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 18 May 2020
• To help the needle-phobic, McMurtry says that vaccination sites should let people know ahead of time which questions they’ll be asked and what accommodations can be made for them.
  — Tara Law, Time, 7 May 2021
• But as Americans became more health-conscious (or fat-phobic, depending on your POV), fondue fell out of favor.
  — Michelle Tchea, Bon Appétit, 14 Feb. 2023
• My eating disorder was not an exercise in vanity or a haphazard way, in a fat-phobic world, to simply lose weight.
  — Caroline Rothstein, Marie Claire, 27 Feb. 2018
• For someone who is already sort of shy and occasionally socially phobic, that was a very deadly trap to fall into.
  — Lenika Cruz, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
• Perhaps Saturday authorized even the most snow-phobic to believe that memories of Jan. 28 may now be dismissed.
  — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2022
• Even the most math-phobic person is likely to have no trouble grasping the idea that if a symbol refers to a number of things, then the opposite is true as well — most school kids aren’t struggling with the very meaning of numbers, after all.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2019
• For example, some people are phobic of elevators or of leaving their homes.
  — Steven Hassan For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 29 Sep. 2021
• My contribution to the debate is a reminder that this is the one-year anniversary of the release of the landmark Plain View Project, which exposed police officers’ racist and phobic public posts on Facebook.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 12 June 2020
• Some people have an almost phobic fear of uncertainty and construct their lives to minimize it as much as possible.
  — Prudy Gourguechon, Forbes, 13 June 2021
• Meanwhile, millennials see baby boomers as smug know-it-all, old-school, tech-phobic dinosaurs from a different bygone era.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
• And even for those that aren’t MSG-phobic, there’s still a shroud of mystery surrounding how to incorporate it into a regular arsenal of seasonings.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
• In this early project, Goodman described himself as commitment phobic while Walsh purported to fall in love perhaps too easily.
  — Tahneer Oksman, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
• For others, vaccine clinics that cater to certain populations, such as the homeless, the neurodiverse, or the needle-phobic, can also have a small but important impact.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 9 Aug. 2021
• Toney’s freelancing style worries turnover-phobic coaches.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 24 July 2019
• Would-be vendors also must agree to not sell culturally appropriated or fat-phobic products, items that promise weight loss, or sage and palo santo.
  — Eric Ducker, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2019
• Mainzer recently caught up with Discover about hunting for space rocks, chatting with Meryl Streep via iPad and the invaluable role that scientists can play in an increasingly science-phobic society.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024