How to Use ASMR in a Sentence

ASMR

noun
  • So, what do the hours-long ASMR compilations on your feed mean?
    Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Consider it a bit of visual ASMR.
    Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Mariko’s signature video style features simple meals and ASMR.
    Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
  • In contrast to role-play videos, this category captures ASMR out in the wild.
    Eliza Brooke, New York Times, 4 July 2023
  • Today, once-odd trends like ASMR and watching other people play video games are mainstream hits.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2026
  • When the worlds of slime and ASMR collided, the popularity of both got a boost.
    Nicole Gull McElroy, WIRED, 13 July 2024
  • Taciturn men whose guttural consonants hit the ear like an ASMR shopping haul.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Along with the actual slime, this set comes with cupcake charms so your kids can indulge in ASMR exploratory play.
    Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 3 Oct. 2023
  • As someone who doesn’t like going into the water but enjoys the ocean's ASMR, this room was lovely.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • So how did his quest for professional arm wrestling lead him to the wild world of unintentional ASMR?
    Kelsey Weekman, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2023
  • As someone who spent many a childhood sleepover playing with peel-off masks, this is definitely my kind of ASMR.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Since then, she's consistently posted videos about beauty, fashion, food, and even ASMR.
    Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Raina is a teenager who creates YouTube ASMR videos—her face hidden—and has a sizable following.
    Lauren Morrow september 9, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The moody interior color palette is like a big, happy sigh—couple that with the sound of a light rainfall for some wedding ASMR.
    Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Her subjects swing from making ASMR content out of printer sounds to earnestly explaining the various coil sizes for book binding.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Sometimes, people find ASMR annoying or can share feelings of calm and relaxation from videos without feeling the tingles.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Watch Lady Gaga and Catherine Zeta-Jones try their hands at ASMR below.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The duo’s Halloween ASMR clip arrives the month after the conclusion of Wednesday season 2.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Slime arguably gained traction thanks to ASMR videos posted on Instagram, but has since migrated into the world, where kids play with it (or make their own) at home.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 6 Nov. 2025
  • These content creators’ occasional mukbangs and habitual ASMR crinkling of chip bags do nothing much for me.
    Adam Dalva, Longreads, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Fuelled by #SnackBox purchases, people are sharing the many ways to prep and pack snack boxes, adding fun ASMR elements to the mix.
    Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Functional genres will include white noise, nature sounds, machine noises, sound effects, non-spoken ASMR, and silence recordings.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The store offers customers sounds and smells throughout the dispensary experience, with ambient nature audio and even cannabis ASMR like rolling a joint, heard over speakers.
    Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The app started to get saturated — with brands, movies, videogames, cats, ASMR, and more all battling for attention — which made marketing music both more expensive and less effective.
    Elias Leight, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Body dysmorphia itself seems to serve as the body horror for much of the film, with mukbang ASMR taken to visceral levels to emphasize the character’s binge eating disorder.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2026
  • From color-coding to elaborate labeling systems, the videos are addictive to watch and often go viral for their satisfying aesthetics (or, in some cases, ASMR).
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Even viewers who aren’t getting the order in question can have these emotional responses—and many of them also experience ASMR as tissue paper is crinkled, tape is ripped, and a soothing voice narrates the packing process.
    WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The spa also feels high-end without being intimidating—my facialist answered all my questions while providing a calming, nearly ASMR experience.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Mar. 2026
  • That makes sense; there's a whole cult-like following around podcasts and videos that use binaural microphones to produce surround sound and a tingly feeling in the ears, known as the autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR.
    Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2021
  • Researchers suggested that future studies should include people who actually experience tingles to better understand how ASMR might help with mental health and relaxation.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025

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