How to Use anxiety in a Sentence

anxiety

noun

• He's been feeling a lot of anxiety about his new job.
• She suffers from chronic anxiety.
• A lot of the city’s anxieties had already fled with the panicked RVs the day before.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
• The White Lotus theme song is meant to give you anxiety.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2023
• Or are Mack’s anxieties getting the better of him once more?
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 14 June 2023
• And what would the perfect South Asian with anxiety look like, anyway?
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• Between mud, darkness, and snapping turtles, the world of the pond was at first one of anxiety for her.
  — Liam Archacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2023
• And part of that relaxing is just, uh, putting my brain down, putting my anxiety down.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
• When stress and anxiety are stealing your rest, here’s how to chill the F out and finally get a good night’s sleep.
  — Ayana Underwood, SELF, 9 Jan. 2024
• Elsewhere, however, TV is in the midst of an anxiety age.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• The heat wave comes amid rising anxiety about climate change.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2023
• But Matthews suffered anxiety the night they were scheduled to meet.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
• Plus, the mere thought of mirrors being taken away gave her anxiety.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 24 Jan. 2024
• Now a mom of 18-month-old twins, Day worries about her mother's anxieties passing on to her children as well.
  — Tanay Howard, Parents, 21 Dec. 2023
• As the uncertainty builds by the day, and Colorado's move to the Big 12 adds to the anxiety out West, saving the Pac-12 on just a short-term level gets tougher and tougher to envision.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 31 July 2023
• Whether the perpetrator’s anxiety is real is not the point.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• This, of course, had to do with the fact—in 2020 and just after World War I, when the novel was published—that the world was entering a confusing new age of anxiety.
  — Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
• An anxiety that might be describing the show itself and its initial flush of success.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2023
• For the past two years, a sinister third wheel had joined: crippling depression and anxiety.
  — Gary Gulman, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2023
• As weeks and months went by, their anxiety gave way to overwhelming excitement.
  — Sarah Gish, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• Move your body: Pumping endorphins is the best way to naturally increase dopamine in the body and fight feelings of stress and anxiety.
  — Detroit Free Press, 13 Jan. 2024
• Widespread hunger and rising prices have caused stress, anxiety and despair.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 25 Aug. 2023
• Said to be a weighted blanket for your eyes, the Nod Pod is lightly weighted to promote relaxation and help relieve stress and anxiety.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 14 Dec. 2023
• While these trips soothed my anxiety, guilt nagged at me about hoarding another resource: cash.
  — Emi Nietfeld, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• To see the island now is to see a place in flux, to play witness to history and to get a glimpse into the Cuban people’s mix of emotions – anxiety, excitement, fear – over the coming shift.
  — Moriah Balingit, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• Paich: Everybody was getting a little anxiety, a little stressed by the time we got involved.
  — Max Evry, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2023
• Seven weeks before the premiere debate of the 2024 GOP primary, anxiety is building that the event could prove messy and divisive for the party.
  — Jill Colvin, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
• Lots of people with anxiety are counting on cannabis’s ability to treat their symptoms.
  — Andrea Petersen and Julie Wernau, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
• Preparing questions ahead of time will help reduce your anxiety and help lead to a strong last impression.
  — Dear Sam | Expert Resume, oregonlive, 7 July 2023
• Both countries were gripped with anxiety upon their founding, as civil conflicts raged in the background.
  — Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024