How to Use overactive in a Sentence

overactive

adjective

• She has an overactive bladder.
• His crazy ideas are products of an overactive imagination.
• Now, that overactive hand of fate has simply been caught on camera.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2017
• This teaches the brain not to be afraid of it and to calm down the overactive alarm systems.
  — Lucia Osborne-Crowley, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• Warm, red, thin, or smooth skin is more common with an overactive thyroid.
  — Brandi Jones, Health, 28 Apr. 2026
• Treatment for overactive bladder is not one-size-fits-all.
  — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 1 May 2026
• Your pelvic-floor muscles are shortened, overactive, or in spasm.
  — Elyssa Goodman, Glamour, 21 Mar. 2019
• But not all chats are welcome, and an overactive chat can be distracting.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• Kids sometimes just have what looks like an overactive immune system.
  — The Atlantic, 7 July 2020
• These nerves can become overactive and fuel high blood pressure.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
• An overactive thyroid can speed up heart rate and cause irregular heart rhythms.
  — Alexandria Nyembwe, Phd, Rn, Health, 4 Nov. 2024
• The hormone, hepcidin, can be slightly overactive when your iron levels go up.
  — Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 6 Oct. 2025
• In the early two-thousands, Nvidia shipped a faulty graphics card with a loud, overactive fan.
  — Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• What’s going on there that can lead to this overactive vasovagal response?
  — Anne R. Crecelius, The Conversation, 20 June 2019
• This can appear like overactive energy or swimming against the tide.
  — Paul Prior, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• As illness goes on, the immune system may become overactive and people can die from that.
  — NBC News, 26 Apr. 2021
• The effect was the same as that of an overactive group chat, if it were populated by pop stars instead of friends.
  — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
• Getting a good sweat in always cleared my head and reset my overactive nervous system.
  — Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2026
• Our spy senses are overactive, leading to paranoia.
  — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 6 Nov. 2025
• Instead, it’s caused by an overactive immune system.
  — Refinery29 Staff, Refinery29, 3 Feb. 2026
• Now the overactive electric activity is coming to an end across the state.
  — Judson Jones, CNN, 10 Sep. 2021
• Even once healing has occurred, the overactive mast cells don’t return to their normal resting state.
  — Sarah Graham, refinery29.com, 11 Jan. 2024
• One theory revolves around overactive nerve signals between the skin and the brain.
  — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 23 July 2024
• Doing something that connects your mind and body through the use of fine motor skills will help you to massage that overactive brain of yours.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2023
• Doing something that connects your mind and body through the use of fine motor skills will help you to massage that overactive brain of yours.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2023
• Doing something that connects your mind and body through the use of fine motor skills will help you to massage that overactive brain of yours.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2023
• Botox and Dysport are used to relax the wrinkles of overactive muscles.
  — Carlos Wolf, miamiherald, 5 July 2017
• But as more and more clumps of my hair began to settle in the shower drain, the overactive shedding became alarming.
  — Sophie Axon, Allure, 3 Oct. 2022
• An overactive appetite for reward, by contrast, may raise the specter of addiction.
  — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2022
• During a cytokine storm, the body's overactive immune response begins to attack its own cells rather than just the virus.
  — Ryan Prior, CNN, 27 June 2020