How to Use mind game in a Sentence

mind game

noun

• Paul is crafty and one of the best at playing mind games.
  — Jason Jones, sacbee, 10 Feb. 2018
• There's no trail of evidence to suggest the Cavs play the same mind games.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• In that moment, Imogen plays a mind game and knows quickly to do so.
  — Vulture, 19 Aug. 2022
• Soccer's weird tiebreaker is a mix of skill, luck, mind games, and heartbreak.
  — Allen St. John, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2018
• There are a lot of mind games that savvy businesses play with consumers.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
• The tough-guy display is likely part of a campaign of cold-weather mind games.
  — Gabrielle Bruney, Esquire, 31 Dec. 2017
• The mind games have started, the statistics are being mulled over.
  — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 1 July 2019
• These coaches do not like each other and appear to be playing mind games in the lead-up.
  — Steven Ruiz, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
• All Blacks boss Steve Hansen was more reserved when asked about the mind games coaches play with each other ahead of crunch games.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019
• Follett said that dogs can learn balance, agility and do mind games.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2019
• This was a shocking step for the show, which prides itself on being a free-for-all of deceit, mind games and treachery.
  — Noam Cohen, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
• Determining the proper pitch was a mind game with the batter.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 25 Oct. 2021
• Play a little mind game with yourself to really get that heart rate up!
  — Kimberly Harrington, The New Yorker, 5 May 2022
• Not that running a good time trial is entirely a mind game.
  — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 12 May 2020
• Each has their own rules, aesthetic, and fanbase but all aim to puzzle the mind game strategists among us.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 11 Mar. 2022
• The three-day event brings the spectacle of the big-top to life through uncovering the mysteries of magic, mind games and more.
  — Nikki Delamotte, cleveland.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• The mind game oil companies are stuck in Oil companies have known about climate change for a long time.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 30 Mar. 2018
• Companies play those mind games and a lot of people are afraid to leave promotions.
  — Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Some in the sport wondered if the Norwegians were playing mind games with their competitors.
  — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
• Oh, the mind games coaches play; Northwestern hasn’t won a conference game since last year.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 22 Nov. 2019
• And so Chicago is just [a] pawn in Trump’s mass manipulative mind game.
  — Danielle C. Belton, The Root, 18 Oct. 2017
• Refuse to let anyone distract you or waste your time playing emotional mind games with you.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
• Regina, with the unerring instinct of a killer primate to spot a potential threat, zeroes in on pretty Cady as a plaything for her mind games.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2018
• But Ream also has a history of mind games, toying with investigators in a game of cat and mouse.
  — Elisha Anderson, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2018
• What rankled Jimmy was the notion that someone else was playing mind games for a change, and with him, the master psychologist.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2020
• Petrified Forest can feel like a mind game for most visitors.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 5 May 2020
• Is a husband’s memory of pineapple-induced rashes a real health concern or a dad-joke mind game?
  — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• The mind game is so important in golf that most professionals employ mental coaches on their teams.
  — Carmine Gallo, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• Our guys fall short in the mind game, an inability to construct points with deliberate placement of serves or volleys.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2022
• Skinner delights in these edible mind games, the most nostalgic of which springs from something his grandmother made for him all her life.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 June 2019

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024