adrenaline
Example Sentences
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The actress plays an outdoors-loving adrenaline junkie harassed by a group of hunters in director Baltasar Kormákur’s spectacular, unsettling film.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
I believed that if I allowed myself to get charged up by adrenaline rushes before the game started, I would use up energy I needed for the entire game.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
Spare adrenaline auto-injectors must also be stocked by schools for emergencies involving children without a prior allergy diagnosis.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
Several times while training for Ironman triathlons, I’ve crashed my bike and jumped right back up—there was so much adrenaline flowing that I didn’t feel pain in the moment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026
Blood rushed to my brain; I felt an animating surge of adrenaline, of possibility, of a frontier being pushed outward.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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