How to Use endorphin in a Sentence

endorphin

noun
  • Exercise to help improve blood flow and release pain-relieving endorphins.
    Michelle Pugle, Verywell Health, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Exercise increases blood circulation to the face and helps with the release of endorphins, the body’s feel-good hormones.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Being intimate with or without a partner can mean holding hands, kissing snuggling on the couch, reading to each other or using a vibrator as a method of self-care to release endorphins.
    Clea Shearer, Flow Space, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Now is the time to get up, get my endorphins going, get the kids to school.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In fact, singing alone or in groups has been shown to lower stress and raise endorphins.
    Daniela Province, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • By the end, most of us were breathless and slightly sweaty, on a high of high-brow endorphins.
    Amy Verner, Vogue, 2 May 2024
  • Fate is a one-track, high-speed train wreck, and for the audience, this means a swift rush of endorphins.
    Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
  • But there were times the endorphin rushes weren't quite enough.
    Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 12 Mar. 2020
  • What gets the endorphins going more than a drumline (and no, drugs don’t count)?
    Erin Granat, Billboard, 29 July 2019
  • Moving in the same way, and at the same time, as others triggers a release of endorphins.
    Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Just ask anyone when the endorphins hit from those first few miles running.
    Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 25 Aug. 2023
  • There’s this — these little endorphins that were just going off in my head.
    The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • Exercise will keep you healthy, sharp, young, and full of endorphins.
    Sheryl Posnick, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2017
  • But her brain kept chasing the endorphin rush of imagining two people in the throes of passion.
    Lisa Bonos, Dallas News, 23 July 2019
  • Increase your endorphins — or the feel-good hormones in your brain — through movement.
    Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • About 20 minutes of exercise can start to release the endorphins in your body.
    Phil Blair, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 May 2017
  • But my endorphin rush was short-lived upon seeing the run time: 96 minutes.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Smart money, then, appears to be flowing with the endorphins.
    The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • An orgasm is the release of all that tension, plus a rush of an endorphin called serotonin that spills into your blood stream.
    Yerin Kim, Seventeen, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Believe me, 300 people with positive endorphins is a rare thing to see as a CEO.
    Alyssa Shelasky, The Cut, 16 Jan. 2018
  • But the endorphin rush of a great trail can be blunted by the high-pitched buzz of a mosquito hovering around your neck, trying to score some lunch.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • The capsaicin will blast those balky sinuses and give you an happy endorphin boost.
    Debbie Moose, charlotteobserver, 7 Feb. 2018
  • On the other hand, exercise also kicks in the feel-good hormones, such as endorphins and the body’s other mood enhancers and pain killers.
    Kimberly Garrison, Philly.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • As for any qualms about tattooing, Bourdain said: There's a big endorphin rush.
    Sarah Rense, Esquire, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The trick is not turning that cardio workout into a sprint endorphin rush.
    Marty Munson, Men's Health, 23 June 2023
  • Yet, my mind was still abuzz with endorphin-inducing awe.
    Dominica Lim, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2017
  • Even if the recreations are small, Sadler hopes his followers can get a tiny endorphin boost from recognizing the places in his posts.
    Andrew Christiansen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2023
  • For one thing, the endorphin and adrenaline rush that comes with a good scaring can produce a natural high.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 11 Oct. 2022
  • See, your body knows that eating sugar triggers the release of endorphins.
    Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 26 Aug. 2016
  • The endorphins seem to come in moments of sudden and fleeting clarity.
    Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2018

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