How to Use mental in a Sentence

mental

adjective
  • But the sixth tool is the mental side.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The last point is a mental one.
    Philipp Lahm, New York Times, 14 June 2026
  • None of this helped his mental state.
    Elisabeth Rosenthal, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • There is a mental trick for that, too.
    Natalia V. Osipova, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
  • That’s along with the mental side of it.
    Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • That side of the mental game of life is huge.
    Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 23 May 2026
  • Freed from my own mental prison!
    Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • And when that starts to dawn on you, the mental toll of that is hard.
    Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • There was a whole mental team behind me.
    Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2026
  • But Heeney wants to learn more about the mental side of things.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Kuhn still knows the real work is mental.
    Krystle Rich, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • And then there’s the pile-on of mental symptoms.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The mental break was harder to achieve.
    Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Only those with mental frailty would land there.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • There are mental hurdles to clear, too.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The mental ones for him and the team are going to be seen more over time.
    Dan Woike, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This is not about mental weakness.
    Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026
  • But for all its laugh lines, the play wrestles with heavy mental-health themes.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The president knows how to play on that mental piece of this.
    ABC News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • That mental part of the game was really killing me.
    Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The cherry on the top of her mental breakdown?
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • They have been found to boost mental and physical health.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Athletes speak of ski jumping as a mental game.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • There’s no excuse for having a mental lapse like that.
    Zak Keefer, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • That just entered my mental space maybe within the last year.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • No, Ryan didn’t have any mental-health issues.
    Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
  • How much of [that blurring divide] is his mental state?
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The cold water also took a mental toll.
    Jim Hoagland, Outdoor Life, 30 Apr. 2026
  • That takes a lot of mental strength to be able to do that and then turn your focus to the next team.
    Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2025
  • If sadness or mental fog rolls in, that’s normal.
    Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2026

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