How to Use reflex in a Sentence

reflex

1 of 2 noun

• Disagreeing with my suggestions has become almost a reflex for him.
• My reflexes are slower now that I'm older.
• The head is brought to the surface before the rest of the body; this overrides the dive reflex.
  — Bekka Besich, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
• That is still my reflex, to try to find my own way out.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 May 2022
• So, please, for the sake of my gag reflex, stop letting your clothing drag on the ground.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 10 Nov. 2022
• Slow is the key, as faster movements can trigger the stretch reflex.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 17 Feb. 2022
• In other words, cough pearls numb your airways to calm the cough reflex.
  — Ayana Underwood, SELF, 7 Feb. 2024
• But the press has that reflex because Democrats let things happen that way.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
• All cats presumably have this reflex, but not all of them are very good at it.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2023
• What’s even more surprising was his very fast reflex to catch it with one hand in midair.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2023
• An encounter with any of them on a dark night might trigger your fight-or-flight reflex.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
• When the seller meets any resistance from the buyer, often the first reflex is to drop the price by 20%.
  — Greg Story, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• The natural reflex is to track and follow how the picture will turn out.
  — Esther Choy, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• Single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras have been around since the 1860s.
  — Brent Rose, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2021
• It was machined with just as much care as, say, a single-lens-reflex camera from the same era.
  — Dan Falk, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
• In time, though, perhaps people will have honed that reflex, too.
  — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2022
• To Trump’s credit, his reflex appears to be more tactical than in the past.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 8 Aug. 2023
• And a lot of times, the vagus nerve or an interruption of the signals that might cause this reflex to happen.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
• Anglers crank the spinners near the surface, and their flash draws male shad to chase them, sometimes all the way to the boat, in a reflex spawning effort.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 2 May 2021
• Newborns have a startle reflex that can disrupt their sleep (and yours).
  — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
• Bass said that when the public feels unsafe, the reflex from candidates is to make big promises of many more cops.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• The petals on Erythronium 'Pagoda' reflex to reveal a reddish ring at the base and bloom in mid to late spring.
  — Nadia Hassani, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2024
• Once a player learns to suppress the startle reflex, the next step is to anticipate where a pitch might hit him.
  — Matt Martell, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• The reflex is to assume that the more expensive version is better.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 19 May 2022
• Examples include the human knee-jerk reflex and the act of walking.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2021
• An appeal to force was an admission of failure, and the pride of the new nation was the sense of overcoming the sanguinary reflexes of the old world.
  — TIME, 31 Jan. 2024
• For weeks afterward, the taste festered in my thoughts, goading my gag reflex.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• The underlug has a three-slot pic-rail to allow for the attachment of a laser or light, or laser/light combo, and the top is drilled and tapped for a scope/reflex sight rail.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 24 Jan. 2023
• Learning to fly an FPV well takes talent, good reflexes and plenty of practice.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• From lipomas and cysts to keloids and tumors, Lee tackles them all with professionalism and a seemingly imperturbable gag reflex.
  — Briana Richert, James Mercadante, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2024

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reflex

2 of 2 adjective

• But on the left side, nothing: no reflex movement at all.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• There's the urine sample jar that won't open, the blood pressure gauge that insists on farting, and the reflex test that causes the wrong knee to react.
  — Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2013
• One reason the finger must stay off the trigger is that the reflex action of the finger to surprise could cause a loaded gun to fire.
  — Christine Cunningham, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 July 2017
• There’s also a rear reflex port to extend the speaker’s bass response.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• Nikon has long made some of the best optics in the world, but this P-Tactical Spur is the company's first foray into reflex sights.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 1 June 2020
• Another reflex test, designed to detect damage to the nerve pathway through the spinal cord to the brain, was negative.
  — Beverly Purdy, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2012
• Except in the case of reflex actions, all muscle work begins with an act of conscious willing.
  — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 19 Jan. 2021
• Muscle tension is almost a reflex reaction to stress—the body’s way of guarding against injury and pain.
  — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• Sauvignon blancs and grüner veltliners are reflex choices and would be fine.
  — David Tanis, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
• This should be a reflex reaction for any campaign that did not perform as expected.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• After high school, Osman was working as a preschool teacher, and was tasked with taking photos of the children using a reflex camera.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 27 May 2022
• Meanwhile, the main woofer is a 5.5-inch aluminum alloy driver delivering a beefy bass response that can dip as low as 45Hz thanks to a reflex port on the rear of each cabinet.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• If the variant was unexpected, the reflex reaction was not.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
• Within half an hour, cats that had been paralyzed for three months began walking as if their spinal cords were intact — this was hardly a reflex effect.
  — Nate Berg, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2013
• Maddie still wasn't responding to the manual pain and reflex assessments.
  — Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• Baby Carmen is set to go home with her dad on Monday after spending two months at the hospital due to reflex issues with her feedings, a common problem in many premature babies.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 24 Oct. 2021
• With reflex syncope, her body is unable to appropriately regulate her heart rate and blood pressure, leading to dizziness, nausea, and a loss of consciousness.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• And when various outsiders interfere — a meddling neighbor, a nasty classmate, any misguided human who attempts to hit her power switch — her reflex response is homicide.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 6 Jan. 2023
• But on the left side, nothing: no reflex movement at all.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• There's the urine sample jar that won't open, the blood pressure gauge that insists on farting, and the reflex test that causes the wrong knee to react.
  — Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2013
• One reason the finger must stay off the trigger is that the reflex action of the finger to surprise could cause a loaded gun to fire.
  — Christine Cunningham, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 July 2017
• There’s also a rear reflex port to extend the speaker’s bass response.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• Nikon has long made some of the best optics in the world, but this P-Tactical Spur is the company's first foray into reflex sights.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 1 June 2020
• Another reflex test, designed to detect damage to the nerve pathway through the spinal cord to the brain, was negative.
  — Beverly Purdy, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2012
• Except in the case of reflex actions, all muscle work begins with an act of conscious willing.
  — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 19 Jan. 2021
• Muscle tension is almost a reflex reaction to stress—the body’s way of guarding against injury and pain.
  — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• Sauvignon blancs and grüner veltliners are reflex choices and would be fine.
  — David Tanis, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
• This should be a reflex reaction for any campaign that did not perform as expected.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• After high school, Osman was working as a preschool teacher, and was tasked with taking photos of the children using a reflex camera.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 27 May 2022
• Meanwhile, the main woofer is a 5.5-inch aluminum alloy driver delivering a beefy bass response that can dip as low as 45Hz thanks to a reflex port on the rear of each cabinet.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024