Sample sentences for AGORAPHOBIA

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Definition

a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place)

I wondered if she was agoraphobic, painfully shy.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
An agoraphobia rose in her, speeding higher and higher, bigger and bigger; she would not be able to contain it; there would no end to fear.
Maxine Hong Kingston -- The Woman Warrior
Stereotype has it" that someone born on Lusus hates to leave the Hive and suffers from instant agoraphobia if we visit anything more open to the elements that a shopping mall.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
He hated it, as he hated the Texas plains, the Nevada desert; spaces horizontal and sparsely inhabited had always induced in him a depression accompanied by agoraphobic sensations.
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
Agoraphobia
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
He made a checking list of the favorite neurasthenic fears: agoraphobia, claustrophobia, pyrophobia, anthropophobia, and the rest, ending with what he asserted to be "the most fool, pretentious, witch-doctor term of the whole bloomin' lot," namely, siderodromophobia, the fear of a railway journey.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
An agoraphobic shut-in, with no real friends, family, or genuine human contact.
Ernest Cline -- Ready Player One

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