How to Use psyche in a Sentence

psyche

noun
  • Why is there a hole in your heart and psyche a mile wide?
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 4 May 2023
  • All these classics were part of our psyche at the time.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The sight of the crime scenes has left a permanent mark on my psyche.
    Wojciech Delikta, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The rest of that day is a blur as my psyche was so traumatized.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
  • With a twisty narrative for the ages, the film delves into the limits of the human psyche and the depths of grief.
    Lillian Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The American psyche has taken such a hit in the last decade or so.
    Carl Kelsch, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 May 2023
  • Time and distance do a funny thing to the human psyche.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 2 Nov. 2022
  • But for now, take a beat to dive deep into your inner psyche.
    Korin Miller, Women's Health, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The term psychedelic was coined in 1956 and drawn from the Greek root psyche, which translates to mind or soul.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The Joe Goldberg psyche — hopeless romantic who kills in the name of love — will not be new to fans of the series.
    Karin Tanabe, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • That psyche run wild is dangerous as hell, and very strange.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In the Russian psyche, Levinson said, the war is not about defeating Ukraine.
    Keir Simmons, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • That is part of the Philippine psyche, this idea that what all of these colonizers have told us is true.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • Mercury and the sun join forces today, channeling a message from the depths of your psyche.
    USA TODAY, 1 July 2023
  • The pandemic had overshadowed most of his young life and took its toll on his psyche.
    Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Use it to shut off parts of your psyche and activate others.
    Reuven Perlman, The New Yorker, 28 June 2023
  • The Outback looms large in the country’s psyche, as evidenced by the kangaroo and emu on its coat of arms.
    Michael Robinson Chavez, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The allure of coastal living is carved into the bedrock of our collective psyche.
    Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2023
  • This movement has a unique if endangered place in the nation’s psyche.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • This runs deep inside the Palestinian psyche, this very act.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Burgers with doughnuts for buns leave their sticky phantom glaze on my psyche to this day.
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The nation’s southern border has loomed large in the psyche of the American electorate.
    Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Syd Barrett’s psychosis haunts the band, whose music never slips far from the vicissitudes of the psyche, the dramas of the ego.
    James Reich, SPIN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Tight end George Kittle explained how quick starts can work on the psyche of an opponent.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Addiction has also weighed on the psyche of families, the study found.
    Noah Weiland, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Ingram: That impact of breast-conserving surgery in the psyche of couples and women was huge.
    Amy Scharf, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
  • In recent years, as my climate grief has deepened and taken on its own life in my psyche, home is the planet itself.
    Kate Christensen, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2023
  • For so long, it was carved into our psyches by Hollywood and history that this could never be the case.
    Maitland Ward, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2023
  • Sunday’s shocker likely won’t damage the loyal psyche the way the Red Sox collapse of 1978 crushed our souls.
    Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
  • Conspiracy of the flesh is Kennedy’s root allure, the bloody loam of his candidacy, and maybe even his psyche.
    Time, 9 Aug. 2023

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