How to Use overstimulated in a Sentence

overstimulated

adjective

• In a public place like the dog park, dogs can become overstimulated.
  — Hannah Harper, Health.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• But during the 45-minute treatment, my overstimulated brain started to churn at a less rapid pace.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Marie Claire, 28 Apr. 2017
• And with the virtual format, overstimulated guests can pass out in the privacy of their home.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 30 June 2020
• When an overstimulated child starts to show signs of a meltdown, Ms. Hotho will often suggest taking a deep breath.
  — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2020
• This is an album-length requiem for the overstimulated and the under-inspired, an ode to the numb generation.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• This an album-length requiem for the overstimulated and the under-inspired, an ode to the numb generation.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2017
• This is not to say that the same is true in humans or that overstimulated kids will turn to drugs, but addiction relies on reward networks in the brain and habit formation.
  — Erik Vance, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
• There, a hodgepodge group of Brooklynites tried to coax overstimulated kittens onto our laps while we were taught how trapping works.
  — Jessica Roy, The Cut, 12 Jan. 2018
• Inside, there's soothing bubble art on the walls and tactile displays that can calm an overstimulated mind.
  — CBS News, 27 Jan. 2018
• After Dinner W Talk Dreams offers the kind of breezy, timeline-cleansing tunes our overstimulated brains are begging for right now.
  — Alex Suskind, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• After a ten-day break, the researchers put the overstimulated mice through their paces in a series of tests like maze navigation and object recognition and compared their results to mice that hadn’t been exposed to the cartoons and light.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2018
• Think about a cranky, overstimulated child after a birthday party.
  — Anika Marinakis, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2017
• The windows of the buildings reflected the light down into my overstimulated eyes, incubating me.
  — Juneameliarose, Longreads, 25 Mar. 2020
• An overstimulated dog may have a physical response to its stressors.
  — Emma Fox, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• Exposure to nature tends to soothe and refresh overstimulated brains.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2021
• Even in an overstimulated metropolis where residents are known for their indifference to spectacle, hordes of people will pack the streets along the East River, poke their heads out windows or climb to rooftops to gawk on Thursday.
  — Jake Michaels, New York Times, 2 July 2019
• This can be especially helpful for dogs who tend to become overstimulated or anxious.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
• As the calendar moves into deep December and early January, those hearty greetings become less jovial and the Grinch beckons because of hectic schedules, overstimulated kids and credit card bills in the mail.
  — Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• And a recession is exactly what Wall Street fears as the overstimulated economy forces up inflation and interest rates.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2018
• Brown saw the pandemic isolate and depress students, some of whom presented behavioral problems because they were so overstimulated by their return to school.
  — Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 3 Apr. 2022
• As in Hamsun’s fiction, there is a tendency in Munch to slide past mystery into an overstimulated state approaching hysteria.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• Certain kinds of cancer patients can benefit from high doses of IL-2, but the treatment carries risks: the molecule binds to three different receptors, and one of those, if overstimulated, can unleash a toxic response in the body.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2020
• In one early scene, a striking scarlet gown captures the designer’s bold ambitions; episodes later, in Halston’s overstimulated ’80s, the same intense color invades his own wardrobe and office decor.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 14 May 2021
• Emails, often with 2-3 different accounts, several social media accounts and texts constantly can leave us all in an overstimulated state.
  — Hansa Bhargava, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• Doctors must learn to manage potentially life-threatening side effects from an overstimulated immune system.
  — Lauran Neergaard, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
• The sketches in these early pages skillfully evoke their moment’s spiky, overstimulated atmosphere — especially the new, frightening friction of such everyday routines as grocery shopping or picking up a prescription.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
• Beneath that overstimulated voice, though, is sincerity.
  — Jessica Testa, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• Sargent notes that overstimulated environments are typical of tech headquarters in Silicon Valley.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz at Work, 6 Nov. 2019
• Once thought to affect overstimulated boys primarily, diagnoses for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, have sharply increased among adult women.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022

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