How to Use reflex in a Sentence

reflex

1 of 2 noun

• Disagreeing with my suggestions has become almost a reflex for him.
• My reflexes are slower now that I'm older.
• Freak us out and test our gag reflex.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
• And if there’s a sell reflex, sell what?
  — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
• Keep your body strong and your reflexes sharp.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• But his reflexes test off the charts.
  — Will Borger, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
• In other words, cough pearls numb your airways to calm the cough reflex.
  — Ayana Underwood, SELF, 7 Feb. 2024
• All cats presumably have this reflex, but not all of them are very good at it.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2023
• In time, though, perhaps people will have honed that reflex, too.
  — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2022
• What’s even more surprising was his very fast reflex to catch it with one hand in midair.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2023
• Yet the phrase wasn’t always an empty reflex.
  — Angela Haupt, Time, 28 Jan. 2026
• An encounter with any of them on a dark night might trigger your fight-or-flight reflex.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
• So, please, for the sake of my gag reflex, stop letting your clothing drag on the ground.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 10 Nov. 2022
• Even though most humans don’t have enough body hair for that to work today, the reflex still fires.
  — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 12 Nov. 2025
• But the press has that reflex because Democrats let things happen that way.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
• The head is brought to the surface before the rest of the body; this overrides the dive reflex.
  — Bekka Besich, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
• Newborns have a startle reflex that can disrupt their sleep (and yours).
  — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
• Leaving was a reflex to survive.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
• The reflex, from a distance, is to call this irrational.
  — Tyler Evans, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026
• It was machined with just as much care as, say, a single-lens-reflex camera from the same era.
  — Dan Falk, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
• The natural reflex is to track and follow how the picture will turn out.
  — Esther Choy, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• When fixated on screens, our blink reflex is suppressed.
  — Matt Fuchs, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
• When your child asks a question, resist the reflex to hand them the phone or summon a chatbot.
  — Erica Dhawan, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2025
• Still, my first reflex is always to blame myself for everything that goes wrong around me.
  — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
• Interrupt the reflex to speak, defend, or act.
  — Naz Beheshti, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Somewhere along the way, most of us lose that reflex—and the world isn't exactly helping.
  — Angela Haupt, Time, 3 June 2026
• Babies can present with a weak cry, poor sucking reflex, and decreased muscle tone.
  — Dr. Baibing Chen, CNBC, 24 Nov. 2025
• For weeks afterward, the taste festered in my thoughts, goading my gag reflex.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• My self-deprecating remarks, a knee-jerk reflex with me, didn’t amuse him.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• Whereas for him this is almost a reflex that is part of his decision-making process.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022

reflex

2 of 2 adjective

• That reflex delays care and erodes trust.
  — Liz Koch, STAT, 6 Apr. 2026
• The hard plastic cabinets have bass reflex ports on the rear along the top edge.
  — PC Magazine, 23 July 2025
• There’s also a rear reflex port to extend the speaker’s bass response.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• Apart from the reflex response to a jump scare, the purpose of almost any horror movie is to disturb you.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 May 2025
• Sauvignon blancs and grüner veltliners are reflex choices and would be fine.
  — David Tanis, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
• Except in the case of reflex actions, all muscle work begins with an act of conscious willing.
  — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 19 Jan. 2021
• This should be a reflex reaction for any campaign that did not perform as expected.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• Some bass-heavy speakers can create an annoying booming sound from the reflex port at the rear of the speaker.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
• There was a reflex stop on a David Kämpf flash rebound in the second period.
  — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
• Wyle listened to the two women’s breathing and administered a reflex test on their knees.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 May 2026
• Muscle tension is almost a reflex reaction to stress—the body’s way of guarding against injury and pain.
  — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• There are varying depths of coma, however, and some people may still have some reflex responses.
  — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
• There's the urine sample jar that won't open, the blood pressure gauge that insists on farting, and the reflex test that causes the wrong knee to react.
  — Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2013
• In addition, the bass reflex port on these speakers is front-facing, which means that they can be placed close to walls without risk of distortion.
  — Brad Moon, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
• Another reflex test, designed to detect damage to the nerve pathway through the spinal cord to the brain, was negative.
  — Beverly Purdy, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2012
• Within half an hour, cats that had been paralyzed for three months began walking as if their spinal cords were intact — this was hardly a reflex effect.
  — Nate Berg, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2013
• Maddie still wasn't responding to the manual pain and reflex assessments.
  — Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• When the reflex actions are prevented, those muscle movements that ultimately cause the quick spoilage don’t occur.
  — Simon Mainwaring, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
• Cherry Venice' With its bright red reflex flowers, this heirloom variety is like the cherry on top of your fall garden.
  — Mike Irvine, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2025
• After high school, Osman was working as a preschool teacher, and was tasked with taking photos of the children using a reflex camera.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 27 May 2022
• The Loewe Grand inicio is a powerful two-way speaker with a bass reflex system and is available as a floor-standing speaker.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
• During that second stay, a routine reflex test caused his leg to jerk violently, prompting a full spinal MRI.
  — Jordan Greene, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• Or just a reflex mean-reversion trade in some laggard sectors at a time when the AI theme has become more fragmented and treacherous?
  — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2025
• Nikon has long made some of the best optics in the world, but this P-Tactical Spur is the company's first foray into reflex sights.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 1 June 2020
• That listen-then-adapt reflex repeats across states, which is why programs feel relevant in one village today and repeatable in a new district tomorrow.
  — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• The reflex reaction might well be, What exactly have the governor and fellow Democrats been doing for the previous six years?
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
• The selloff earlier also stopped short of the low set in the reflex Fed-day selloff during Chair Powell's press conference.
  — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
• The reflex trade was a textbook Fed-easing play to rotate out of big, expensive growth stocks and into lower-quality, more cyclical small-caps and financials .
  — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
• With reflex syncope, her body is unable to appropriately regulate her heart rate and blood pressure, leading to dizziness, nausea, and a loss of consciousness.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• The reflex reaction would be to suggest that without Stiller and Goretzka, Germany lost control in midfield.
  — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025