How to Use adrenaline in a Sentence

adrenaline

noun
  • The adrenaline from being on the mound keeps him awake for hours.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The scenery, the adrenaline, my car snapped out of cruise control.
    Uwem Akpan, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • Nothing tops the adrenaline rush of sprinting to the gate.
    Bert Stratton, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • By then, the adrenaline had worn off, and the sun and Dramamine had lulled most of the anglers to sleep.
    Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Not if you get cut, of course, but the adrenaline of hearing your name is like. . .
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The calendar says that this is the time of year when the adrenaline ramps up a bit for Sean Payton.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022
  • Then came the Dance Marathon, the high adrenaline dance off where the couples are packed on the floor like sardines to dance their hearts out.
    Calie Schepp, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The adrenaline of game day got him through the shakiness.
    The Indianapolis Star, 26 Oct. 2022
  • But then once the challenges start, the adrenaline is just rushing through your body.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2022
  • For a rush of adrenaline, take the chairlift up to Colorado's longest alpine slide and rush 3,000 feet back down to the base of the mountain.
    Tamara Gane, Chron, 23 Apr. 2023
  • But the novel and the movie touched Americans and added a shot of adrenaline to his celebrity.
    Joseph B. Treaster, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The best way to move on is to calm the frenzy and get a home game against a team that expensed so much adrenaline Monday night.
    Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Kadir is scared and all the more dangerous for his adrenaline.
    Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But those moments alone weren’t enough to pump adrenaline into the show.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The adrenaline wore off, though, and his head began throbbing.
    The Indianapolis Star, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Even though there was no adrenaline, there was no noise, there was no nothing.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • When his adrenaline shot up, his stamina on the mound would sometimes go down.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • But not enough of it teases out the synesthesia of a night in a restaurant: the adrenaline, the prep, the community, the taste.
    Longreads, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Players rushed to the mound, spraying rosin and water in a frenzy of adrenaline and joy.
    Tyler Foy, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The adrenaline heading to the theater, the spikes in cortisol with every jump scare.
    Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health, 22 Oct. 2022
  • To get the chainsaw above my head, there'd be moments my whole body would be shaking from the motor and the adrenaline, from my toes to the tip of my head.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2023
  • There is something to be said for desire and adrenaline.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 July 2023
  • In the final seconds before a plane peels off the runway, my adrenaline spikes.
    Natalie B. Compton, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Corn mazes always give me the perfect fall adrenaline rush.
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 20 July 2022
  • The lead single from their debut album of the same name, this bracing burst of adrenaline defined West Coast rap of the era.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Back then, such an endeavor appealed to a small group of adrenaline-chasers willing to risk their lives for the thrill.
    Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 16 Mar. 2023
  • What surprised me the most was probably the adrenaline.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2022
  • And the adrenaline surging through her dulled the pain that would eventually come.
    Ben Finley, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Get a boost of adrenaline while balling with these wireless earbuds.
    Mark Stock, Men's Health, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Corry believed the adrenaline, the sense of purpose and the heightened feeling of service is what drew him in.
    Rebecca Boone, ajc, 14 Oct. 2022

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