How to Use stimulant in a Sentence

stimulant

noun

• The movie was a stimulant to discussion.
• Caffeine is a stimulant that boosts the amount of cAMP in your body.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 May 2022
• Feeling chill on your skin and in your lungs is both a respite and a stimulant.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
• In the short term, at least, tax cuts would raise demand and act as a stimulant.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
• So much for the idea that deficit spending is a stimulant.
  — Stephen Moore, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2018
• That's of course thanks to the caffeine, a stimulant that can rev up your body's engine for the day.
  — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2022
• At low doses—say, when the fresh leaves are chewed—kratom acts as a stimulant.
  — Peter Andrey Smith, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2019
• Caffeine is a stimulant and that can make your heart rate jump up, Dr. Franey says.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 2 May 2023
• For a movie about a stimulant, there’s a remarkable lack of zip; events plod along like a sober bear.
  — WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
• Get Outside Sunlight is one of the best stimulants there is.
  — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 6 Mar. 2020
• Methamphetamine, the stimulant that has long been a staple of rural Ohio, is gaining a foothold in the state’s largest cities.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 8 Mar. 2022
• The chemical is best known as a stimulant that raises the heart rate and blood pressure.
  — Daniel Wolfe, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
• On the other hand, cannabis is a substance that can be a stimulant or a depressant.
  — Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
• Kratom acts as a stimulant in low doses and a sedative at high doses.
  — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2022
• Light acts as a stimulant, similar to the way caffeine does, even in people who are blind.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 24 June 2018
• And as to the timing, the test did happen during the offseason (a couple months ago), which means it’s not for any kind of stimulant.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 11 June 2018
• There are the stimulants on game day to short-circuit the brain’s impulse to avoid sticking your head into a pile of 300-pound linemen.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2019
• What stimulant was combined with fentanyl changed based on where people lived, the study found.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• She was found to be under the influence of a stimulant and placed under arrest.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• It’s been held in Miami Beach for the past 18 years, and has become a major economic stimulant for the area.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 20 July 2023
• It's also used as an appetite stimulant and to treat chronic pain.
  — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2018
• The percentage of men younger than 19 with a prescribed stimulant decreased that year.
  — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• Rangers: The drumbeat has been getting louder for two off-seasons and now, a first-place team needs a deadline stimulant.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• He was found to be under the influence of a stimulant and arrested.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2024
• Zen monks returning from China brought the powder home, using it as a medicine and a stimulant.
  — Paul S. Atkins, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2024
• Energy drinks have high amounts of caffeine and some contain guarana, both of which are stimulants.
  — Sarah Cottrell, Parents, 11 July 2023
• The stimulant can be legally purchased in Ontario, Oregon – less than an hour’s drive from Boise.
  — Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 21 Feb. 2024
• Ephedrine, a stimulant, can be extracted from joint pine.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• Glover suggests unplugging from any media about an hour before going to bed and avoiding stimulants before bedtime.
  — Alice Park, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
• Key Takeaways Cognitive behavioral therapy and the mild stimulant modafinil both reduce fatigue in people with multiple sclerosis by about the same amount, finds a new study.
  — Lisa Rapaport, EverydayHealth.com, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Jan 2025