How to Use phobia in a Sentence

phobia

noun

• His fear of crowds eventually developed into a phobia.
• Still, Game of Thrones might take the cake for spoiler-phobia.
  — Laura Bradley, HWD, 11 July 2017
• All this is bad enough abroad but obscene when the Soros-phobia migrates to the USA.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 1 June 2018
• Lotus pods are one of the most well-known triggers of this phobia.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 13 Sep. 2017
• Just like me, about 9 percent of adults in the U.S. lived with a specific phobia in the last year.
  — Agata Boxe, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2019
• The company looked at each state’s most searched phobia over the past year.
  — Lavendrick Smith, charlotteobserver, 20 Oct. 2017
• About 19 million people in the U.S. have at least one phobia.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2021
• All that other stuff is learned — all that phobia and hatred and fear is taught.
  — Christina Schoellkopf, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2017
• By confronting the source of his fear in a safe setting, the person learns to manage that phobia.
  — Markham Heid, Time, 23 May 2018
• Banish you phobia of Brussels sprouts with this tasty and easy recipe.
  — Country Living, 1 Sep. 2010
• My wife and our 12-year-old daughter both find opossums and my phobia adorable.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 4 Aug. 2020
• Just seeing a photo of a snake is enough to trigger my phobia.
  — By Susan Vollenweider, kansascity.com, 9 May 2017
• Statham’s character is, we’re told, subject to a bunch of neuroses and phobias, none of which come in to play.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2023
• My phobia also seemed to go beyond just a fear of falling.
  — Ilana Strauss, SELF, 9 July 2018
• Many of the most common phobias, from flying to heights, come out when people travel.
  — Alyson Krueger, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 June 2019
• To those of us who would like our language to be a bit more concise than a dog’s bark, a phobia is an irrational fear.
  — James Lileks, National Review, 11 July 2019
• In the beginning of the episode, Rebecca's phobia of bridges is revealed.
  — Eileen Reslen, Good Housekeeping, 7 Feb. 2018
• For someone who was once afraid of flying, Danny Ramirez sure picks projects that force him to push through his phobia on screen.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 17 May 2022
• The phobia affects hundreds of thousands of people in the United States alone.
  — Jennifer Billock, Good Housekeeping, 20 Jan. 2022
• Like a real, actual, have-to-get-out-of-the-car, have-to-leave-the-situation phobia.
  — Jessica Bennett, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
• He was ridden with phobias of death, darkness, and open spaces.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 6 June 2018
• Fears don’t get much more false than today’s rising-rate phobia.
  — Ken Fisher, USA TODAY, 10 June 2018
• There’s no need to keep your phobia a secret and suffer in silence, Sawhne stresses.
  — Angela Haupt, TIME, 22 May 2024
• Having reviewed a photo of the art, this court sides with Nathan: This thing is a rat king of writhing, entwined phobia triggers.
  — Judge John Hodgman, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
• The city now has a plan that could curb some of this tourism phobia, while also helping with adaptation to climate change.
  — Laura Millan, Fortune Europe, 13 Jan. 2024
• To fully immerse the viewer in her phobia, naturally, Bell was placed in the rain... a lot.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• Part of the reason for this phobia being so common is the rapid growth of the aviation industry.
  — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2024
• My mother-in-law has an instinctive hatred for dogs that seems like a phobia.
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2023
• Young children commonly fear death and may develop phobias around it.
  — Wendy Wisner, Health, 26 July 2024
• The list is long, but two of the frontrunners include possessing an irrational phobia of the banana (never had one, never will) and being an abysmal sight reader.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 26 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024