How to Use fight-or-flight in a Sentence

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• Oxytocin shifts your body out of fight-or-flight mode.
  — Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 17 June 2026
• When you’re stressed, your body gets ready to enter fight-or-flight mode.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
• Over time, our nervous systems stay locked in fight-or-flight.
  — Marc Brackett, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
• Long-term stress can mean our fight-or-flight response does its thing on a hair trigger.
  — Eleanor Morgan, refinery29.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• This is often referred to as the fight-or-flight response.
  — Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2025
• The panic attack fight-or-flight response is well-known to me.
  — Alice Bradley, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
• Short resets—gentle stretching or a slow flow—can shift you out of fight-or-flight.
  — Lourdes Mestre, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
• Snapped out of modern-day fight-or-flight mode, I was primed for smoother sleep despite the jet lag.
  — Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Mar. 2024
• Some fears—like the fight-or-flight response—are essential for survival.
  — Benjamin Adams, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
• Stimulating it, even briefly, can shift your body out of fight-or-flight and into calm.
  — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2026
• But life, such as it’s been granted them, has trained them both to swim forever in the seas of fight-or-flight.
  — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
• The sight of white men laughing activates an ancient fight-or-flight response in me.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2025
• This allows an athlete like Shiffrin to override the fight-or-flight response.
  — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
• Stress triggers a physical response known as the fight-or-flight response.
  — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 25 Oct. 2024
• Your skin prickles, adrenaline spikes — and that primal fight-or-flight instinct kicks in.
  — Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
• The amygdala is where our primitive fight-or-flight response resides.
  — Mary Clements Evans, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
• In turn, the body gears into fight-or-flight mode, which shuts the brain’s higher reasoning functions down.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• That’s why, in the pre-race fight-or-flight stage, adrenaline’s effect is important.
  — Richard A. Lovett, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
• Stress puts your body on alert, and, in turn, your body releases adrenaline, the fight-or-flight hormone.
  — Alysse Dalessandro, Health, 18 Dec. 2024
• Fear aggression emerges when a dog's fight-or-flight instinct activates.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
• When we are stressed or in fight-or-flight mode, the brain kicks off a process that results in the body producing cortisol.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, TIME, 12 Mar. 2025
• Peak performance happens in flow states, not fight-or-flight responses.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• The fight-or-flight response is a body mechanism intended to keep humans safe from threats.
  — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 24 Jan. 2025
• Even normal stuff, like a bus backfiring or a balloon popping, can send her into fight-or-flight mode.
  — Amelia Harnish, Women's Health, 5 June 2023
• The two are linked through a physiological process called the fight-or-flight response.
  — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 24 Jan. 2025
• The relationship puts me in a perpetual state of fight-or-flight.
  — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 2 July 2025
• The sympathetic nervous system is part of your body's fight-or-flight response.
  — Cathy Cassata, Health, 29 July 2023
• This is the hormone that triggers the fight-or-flight response which helps the body better cope with real or perceived threats.
  — James Myhre & Dennis Sifris, Md, Verywell Health, 3 Sep. 2024
• Doing so activates the vagus nerve and nudges the nervous system from fight-or-flight back toward rest.
  — Angela Haupt, Time, 10 Apr. 2026
• This can trigger the sympathetic nervous system and send your body into fight-or-flight mode.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 31 Mar. 2023