How to Use dopamine in a Sentence

dopamine

noun

• Kitchel is on medicine to boost the dopamine in his body.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Aug. 2021
• The dopamine hit of the wins softens the sting of the losses and serves as a lure.
  — Adrienne So, Wired, 6 Dec. 2021
• Wear this on and off the slopes for a hit of dopamine dressing in the colder landscapes.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Feb. 2023
• All of this drives what is known as a dopamine feedback loop.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• Plus, the flash of red is the perfect burst of color when dressing for dopamine.
  — Town & Country, 8 Feb. 2023
• Try dopamine fasting or, for a quick pick-me-up, get dopamine dressed.
  — Celia Ford, Vox, 22 May 2024
• And maybe his illness, and his dopamine, were urging him to just do it!
  — Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• The result was that the set was like a dopamine generator.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
• The Gossip Describe your sound in a sentence: A pure shot of dopamine.
  — Alex Apatoff, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
• Meth gave you a dopamine rush that was quick and enveloping.
  — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2020
• At the right levels, that dopamine helps keep movements sharp.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 2 Sep. 2021
• The Datta Lab checked this off its bucket list just this year in its dopamine study.
  — Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2024
• This act gave me that same surge of dopamine that trich had given me years before.
  — Ludmila Leiva, refinery29.com, 15 June 2020
• And, of course, there’s the game, which mixes a spoonful of dopamine with the medicine of learning about data use.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
• Like most things on the internet, the meme came and went—a small dopamine hit in the middle of a peak doomscrolling night.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 2 Oct. 2020
• So a dog named after a favorite food is sort of like a double-dopamine hit.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 1 Feb. 2023
• There is a 'slot machine' dopamine effect that an iPad has.
  — Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 29 July 2024
• Newness gives us a hit of dopamine, which fades as the novelty wears off.
  — Rainesford Stauffer, The Atlantic, 6 May 2021
• According to Hird, this powder is known to trigger a dopamine hit in the shark’s brain.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
• The progress gives you little shots of dopamine as your savings increase.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2022
• This change up also reflects the idea behind dopamine decor, which has come to the forefront of the design world in the past year.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2023
• This boosts blood flow which can increase serotonin and dopamine.
  — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 30 Sep. 2024
• These are rich in Omega-3 fatty acids which mean your dopamine level in the brain will get increased.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
• And if Wednesday’s victory over those same Bucks stirred up the dopamine, that’s fine, too.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• But the person who’s actually getting the dopamine hit off of that is you, the tipper.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Video of the band members watching the pre-tel awards ceremony is like a hit of dopamine.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2023
• Being back out in the world after a year of austerity is a boost of dopamine.
  — Margaret Littman, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2021
• Essentially, to parent through rewards is to play with the levers of a child’s dopamine.
  — Josh Wilbur, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• Deep work gives you a sense of inner satisfaction and a dopamine boost that can energize your day.
  — Luciana Paulise, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
• Existing schizophrenia drugs work by directly blocking the dopamine receptors in the brain to generally improve symptoms in patients.
  — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024