How to Use stimulus in a Sentence

stimulus

noun

• The dog responded to the stimulus of the ringing bell.
• The pay raise was a stimulus for production.
• Heat and light are physical stimuli.
• Turquoise is a stimulus of both the blue and the green channel.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025
• Of course, there are two ways to pay for such a fiscal stimulus.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
• Is there a fourth stimulus check coming in?
  — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 20 Dec. 2025
• Yellow is a stimulus of both the green and the red channel.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025
• What a stimulus and benediction even to meet with for a day!
  — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
• All of this gives new stimulus to the spread of nuclear weapons.
  — Anthony Lake, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
• Adding the fly to your routine gives your pecs and front deltoids a new stimulus.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 7 Dec. 2022
• The shape change comes about in response to an outside stimulus.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2022
• Hot cocoa, tea or coffee can take the edge off the chill, as well as provide a slight stimulus.
  — Joe Rao, Space.com, 7 Dec. 2025
• Hot cocoa, tea or coffee can take the edge off the chill, as well as provide a slight stimulus.
  — Joe Rao, Space.com, 12 Dec. 2025
• Incomes had been shored up by stimulus checks earlier in the spring.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 30 July 2021
• There’s so much stimuli that I get really pumped doing it.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
• Our market reacts to rate cuts more than any other stimulus.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2026
• Fiscal stimulus helped to buoy spending in the first quarter.
  — ABC News, 3 May 2026
• Is the $2,000 stimulus check true?
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 31 Jan. 2026
• This means that 90% of the stimulus goes to one side while 10% goes to the other.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2024
• Over time, the organoid learns to associate certain stimuli with outcomes.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Aug. 2025
• Just how many households are still owed a $1,400 stimulus check?
  — Fortune, 1 Dec. 2021
• Libraries are not so great because of the way sound carries, coupled with visual stimuli.
  — Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
• But the stimulus wasn’t the only thing putting cash in the hands of Americans.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 11 Dec. 2025
• Rumors and speculation about a fourth stimulus check are all over the place.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 19 June 2021
• The team posits that this network helps the rays’ tails pinpoint stimuli in the surrounding water.
  — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
• So, the play of color is a result of this relative stimulus.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025
• The city's car market is in line to receive a stimulus injection, too.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 30 May 2022
• Some of those young workers put their stimulus checks into the stock market, some researchers have found.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2024
• Train your brain to pause between stimulus and response—the space where conscious choice occurs.
  — Anna Barnhill, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• In general, weight loss means less load on your bones, which reduces the stimulus to create new bone cells.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 31 Mar. 2026