Sample sentences for ADRENALINE

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Definition

"fight or flight" stimulating hormone secreted by the adrenal gland in response to stress (making the body feel excited and ready for action)

She's an adrenaline junkie. She loves the rush that comes from roller coasters, skydiving, and big waves.

adrenaline = "fight or flight" stimulating hormone

She was still shaking from the adrenaline rush that came with the fright.

adrenaline = "fight or flight" stimulating hormone

You should rest. You're running on caffeine and adrenaline.

adrenaline = "fight or flight" stimulating hormone

Before every game the adrenaline flows, but this game was like no other.
Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy

adrenaline = "fight or flight" stimulating hormone that excites the body and prepares it for action

Struggling, bursting with adrenaline, he finally found an open spot to get his feet under him and ran with all his power.
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner

adrenaline = "fight or flight" stimulating hormone

There was no adrenaline, no danger.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon

adrenaline = hormone released to help the body prepare for action ("fight or flight")

I felt totally wired on adrenaline, just nuts.
James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment

adrenaline = "fight or flight" stimulating hormone

A new surge of adrenalin sent the weary army in full flight to the rescue of their comrades.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
I'd be so pumped with adrenaline, I wouldn't need it.
Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy
An adrenaline-steroid-amphetamine craziness came over me, and pretty soon I was screaming and bouncing up and down more than anyone.
Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy
The gunslinger was pumped full of adrenalin; the car was flying along the tracks into the darkness.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
I could feel my heart beat and the fiery, enlivening flow of adrenalin in the blood.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
But, careful, she circled her craft, scenting the sharp adrenalin wafted from his pores.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
The barbarian had been fighting with hardly a break for over ten minutes, but adrenalin coursed through his veins, and he barely felt winded.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
But I wanted to be with Viviana, away from the war cries, thebloodshed, away from the adrenalin pumping up our speech and walk.
Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
Rod felt cold ripple of adrenalin shock trickle down his back and out his finger tips.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
Everybody else was dragging, waiting for practice to end, but the adrenaline was flowing for me.
Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy
Yet even the adrenalin and bloodlust that pumped through their veins could not dispel the exhaustion from their hard march.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
... I woke up, I didn't know where I was or who I was with, I got panicky ... adrenalin was released and I got short-winded.
Tennessee Williams -- A Streetcar Named Desire
Something disturbs me ... adrenalin's pumped in my blood and I get short-winded, that's all, that's all there is to it.
Tennessee Williams -- A Streetcar Named Desire

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