How to Use react in a Sentence

react

verb

• I didn't expect him to react that way.
• He reacted badly to the drug.
• The firefighters reacted quickly when they heard the alarm.
• When I told her what happened, she reacted with anger.
• That’s good news as that is the index to which the Fed reacts.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• As to how a team should react to a game like this, James didn’t have answers.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Once applied, the ink reacts with the proteins and keratin in the skin, and darkens over 24-36 hours.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
• Why do our brains react so strongly to the combination of the two?
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2023
• Get your thinking done before the shot, and then shut off your conscious mind and react.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 21 Mar. 2024
• On a recent day, more people than not reacted with shock and horror at the stand.
  — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
• Pausini reacted to all this with laughter and tears, making hearts with her hands and even standing up to hug the singers on the edge of the stage.
  — Sigal Ratner-Arias, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2023
• The screens showed an empty school hallway and a campus library as two men stood ready to react.
  — Sonia Rao, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Irizarry did not have time to react to the officer’s commands before he was shot, the lawsuit says.
  — Danny Freeman, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
• How did the Teamsters, Glacier Northwest react to the decision?
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• In fact, no one seemed to react (except me, inwardly!).
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023
• Viewers reacted with shock in the live chat as the stream captured the pair’s subsequent arrest.
  — Olivia Balsamo, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• When a foreign object is placed in the body, the body reacts by forming an envelope of tissue around it.
  — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 26 June 2023
• Haverhill first-year head coach Rob Pike reacts to a bold call to go for a fake punt early in the game that yielded a first down and sparked a 27-point flurry in the first half.
  — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• There was a close call when a truck stopped in front of her — and Ms. Amini did not immediately react.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
• Olga Tsvyk, center, and Nadia Ford, right, react to the guilty verdict.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 3 June 2023
• The leader of the British crew had reacted to this petty crime by shooting not only the thief but also a second Māori man.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Since steel and silver react to one another, the work’s colors and textures change over time, like skin exposed to sun.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• The basalt then reacts with rainwater to trap carbon dioxide in the air as a bicarbonate.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 7 Dec. 2023
• Cream of tartar: Acidic cream of tartar reacts with baking soda to give these cookies their spread.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2023
• Not many people would know how to react to that much attention, that much focus, that much pressure.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 6 June 2023
• And on the latest episode of his New Heights podcast, Kelce himself reacted to the revealing numbers.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2023
• How has the creative community reacted to this new concept for the show?
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Nov. 2023
• The market is saturated and users simply don't react the same way.
  — Sebastian Naum, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The prevalence and lethality of methamphetamine and fentanyl on the streets have forced legislators to react.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• The students asked questions about how their pets would react, and excitedly pointed out their location on a map of the eclipse’s path.
  — Caitlin Babcock, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024