How to Use psych in a Sentence

psych

verb

• He was trying to psych himself before the race.
• But for the most part, people are psyched by the thought.
  — Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour, 9 May 2018
• As soon as the lights go down and that first chord plays you are just psyched.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], AL.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• The Nebraska fans seemed to help psych the Gators out a bit in the fourth set.
  — Aaron Reiss, kansascity, 16 Dec. 2017
• There wouldn’t be a single team that’s psyched to see them.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
• Okay, so except for that last guy, most of the fans were psyched about the Dragons.
  — Charlotte Wilder, SI.com, 31 May 2018
• And to gear up for round three, Louis-Dreyfus's Veep costars made her a video to psych her up.
  — Zoe Weiner, SELF, 14 Feb. 2018
• They weren’t psyched to be onstage in the middle of at trial.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 22 June 2018
• But this isn’t the first time McConaughey has psyched one of his costars out on set.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• Her parents, namely her mom, were not that psyched about the idea.
  — Kim Fusaro, Woman's Day, 28 Mar. 2012
• Demetrius Johnson shot 88, and he wasn't psyched about it because his best score on the Creek Course is a 75.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Aug. 2017
• Fans watch for the excitement, for the tension, for the release, to be psyched up, for the thrill, for the enjoyment.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 14 July 2018
• They're psyched for the big pour, for example, in Calvert County.
  — David Sturm, Columbia Flier, 16 May 2017
• Clearly, he's psyched about his new role in the family.
  — Elyse Roth, Redbook, 19 May 2017
• Clearly, he's psyched about his new role in the family.
  — Elyse Roth, Redbook, 19 May 2017
• There are people who have to psych themselves up to enter a gym and people who have to work hard to get in the mood to rage.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, SELF, 27 Oct. 2018
• Some may be into a little bit of a trim… but not all that psyched about the upkeep of taking all off.
  — Kim Tranell, Seventeen, 17 Sep. 2019
• Watch the full video here, and get psyched for one of the biggest rivalry games in college football.
  — Matt Jennings, ajc, 11 Oct. 2017
• Watch the celeb guest stars get psyched about their upcoming Idol duets below.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2018
• Fresh off a recent plank challenge of my own, I was psyched when the folks at Stealth offered to send me a trainer to try.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• The crowd goes from raucous to quiet; then Vea psyches himself up, and the fans in this room start cheering again.
  — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Before games, guys are trying to get psyched up rather than relax.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• Her kids, now in their 20s, were not psyched about a potential lifetime of colonoscopies.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 11 May 2017
• The Scouts built their cars from wood and decorated them for speed – or to maybe psych out their competitors.
  — Orange County Register, 23 Jan. 2017
• Sure, fans trying to psych out players is part of the game, but sometimes fans cross the line with personal attacks.
  — The Tylt, OregonLive.com, 12 May 2017
• Fallon is always the most freaked out, just doing the absolute most to psych himself out.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Of course, not every creator will be psyched to jump on this new payment method, Mandelbrot tells me.
  — Ashley Carman, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
• There's no real preparation to like pump myself up or psych myself out for those kind of scenes.
  — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2022
• That's a career path that many trying to make it in the entertainment industry would be psyched to have.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 12 May 2018
• From hotline to psych hospital, the focus is on risk management.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2022

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024