How to Use hypersensitive in a Sentence

hypersensitive

adjective

• People who are hypersensitive to the chemical may have violent reactions even to small amounts.
• She's hypersensitive about her past.
• Davies films the momentous times with a grand yet hypersensitive style to match.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2021
• Snook are hypersensitive to the cold and will move out at the slightest dip of the thermometer.
  — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Oct. 2021
• With odds this one-sided, the market is hypersensitive to how the Fed frames the cut.
  — Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 29 Oct. 2025
• But investors are currently hypersensitive to even slight changes in tone.
  — Richard Barley, WSJ, 20 July 2017
• But this other idea of being hypersensitive to the way things feel on a sensory level.
  — Chris Payne, Billboard, 28 June 2018
• The whiplash from the stunning speed of that shift has left my whole being hypersensitive to any sudden movement, to being jerked around.
  — Lisa Richardson, Longreads, 8 Apr. 2020
• Those whose vestibular system is hypersensitive may feel off-balance or in danger of falling.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 1 Oct. 2024
• After all, their fellow politicians are nothing if not hypersensitive to even the slightest shifts in the winds of power.
  — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 14 July 2019
• His hypersensitive ears perceived the slightest sound as torture, and he was forced to retreat to the countryside.
  — Matthew Jordan, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2018
• But this steady diet of praise has made the generals hypersensitive to criticism.
  — Jeff Martini, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
• If the now hypersensitive person is stung again, their immune system will, in essence, overreact to those proteins.
  — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 17 Mar. 2018
• Your former friend appears to be both aggressive and hypersensitive.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 12 June 2020
• Now, those kids are pouring out of campus by the millions, and the most demanding, annoying, and hypersensitive among them go straight to work .
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 23 June 2022
• Others, like the rhino beetle’s borns, are hypersensitive and grow huge, out of all proportion to the rest of their bearer’s anatomy.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2012
• My toes felt as if my socks were bunched up beneath them, while the balls of my feet had become hypersensitive; a stray grain of cat litter underfoot was maddening.
  — Lynn Peterson Mobley, Washington Post, 8 July 2018
• In some cases, doctors may still use cisplatin to treat patients — for instance, in those who are hypersensitive to carboplatin.
  — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 16 Aug. 2023
• Americans are hypersensitive to cost increases after years of price spikes.
  — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 13 Mar. 2026
• This new immunity might also have had a downside in the form of allergies that come with a hypersensitive immune system.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
• Plucking Strings , which are small, hypersensitive grooves that deform with even the slightest disturbance.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2014
• In our hypersensitive and litigious society, too many agendas have warped the once-noble idea of hate-crime legislation.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2017
• This would include active eczema, psoriasis flare ups, or people with hypersensitive skin.
  — Georgia Day, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2025
• Fake news is a sign of intolerant and hypersensitive attitudes, and leads only to the spread of arrogance and hatred.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2018
• His claim that Obergefell burdened religious freedom is also a worrying one in a court that is hypersensitive to those claims.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 May 2022
• The other hand is hypersensitive, with frequent nerve pain and uncomfortable sensations at the slightest touch.
  — Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• IgE can bind to the surface of mast cells or basophils (types of white blood cells) and trigger hypersensitive reactions in response to allergens.
  — Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 8 Sep. 2024
• Unless a service is core to your business and hypersensitive to your and your customers’ security, an as-a-service option could be viable.
  — Bill Geary, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• Wall Street is hypersensitive to cash flows these days given the arms race to invest in artificial intelligence.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 27 May 2026
• Some people become hypersensitive to noise; others lose their hearing entirely.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026