Example Sentences

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Reflexes are generally good and the bats still have some pop in them, for the most part, especially for players closer to 50 than 80.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2025

The zero- and one-star videos are inevitably clips of fathers who didn’t act quickly enough, whose Dad Reflexes have been slowed by lethargy or beer.

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2018

Kroch, A. S. Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change.

From Nature • Oct. 31, 2017

The piece, which appeared in the Times Magazine, was ostensibly a review of the English translation of Pavlov’s “Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Physiological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2014

Reflexes introduce voluntary activity; appetitions and hidden tendencies are the forerunners of effective psychology.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen