How to Use stimulant in a Sentence

stimulant

noun
  • The movie was a stimulant to discussion.
  • Caffeine is a stimulant that boosts the amount of cAMP in your body.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 May 2022
  • Feeling chill on your skin and in your lungs is both a respite and a stimulant.
    David G. Allan, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
  • That's of course thanks to the caffeine, a stimulant that can rev up your body's engine for the day.
    Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Caffeine is a stimulant and that can make your heart rate jump up, Dr. Franey says.
    Korin Miller, Women's Health, 2 May 2023
  • For a movie about a stimulant, there’s a remarkable lack of zip; events plod along like a sober bear.
    WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Get Outside Sunlight is one of the best stimulants there is.
    Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Methamphetamine, the stimulant that has long been a staple of rural Ohio, is gaining a foothold in the state’s largest cities.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The chemical is best known as a stimulant that raises the heart rate and blood pressure.
    Daniel Wolfe, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Kratom acts as a stimulant in low doses and a sedative at high doses.
    CBS News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • There are the stimulants on game day to short-circuit the brain’s impulse to avoid sticking your head into a pile of 300-pound linemen.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2019
  • What stimulant was combined with fentanyl changed based on where people lived, the study found.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • She was found to be under the influence of a stimulant and placed under arrest.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • It’s been held in Miami Beach for the past 18 years, and has become a major economic stimulant for the area.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 20 July 2023
  • The percentage of men younger than 19 with a prescribed stimulant decreased that year.
    Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Rangers: The drumbeat has been getting louder for two off-seasons and now, a first-place team needs a deadline stimulant.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • He was found to be under the influence of a stimulant and arrested.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Zen monks returning from China brought the powder home, using it as a medicine and a stimulant.
    Paul S. Atkins, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Energy drinks have high amounts of caffeine and some contain guarana, both of which are stimulants.
    Sarah Cottrell, Parents, 11 July 2023
  • The stimulant can be legally purchased in Ontario, Oregon – less than an hour’s drive from Boise.
    Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Ephedrine, a stimulant, can be extracted from joint pine.
    Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Kratom has long been consumed in Southeast Asia as a pain reliever and mild stimulant.
    Mason Marks, STAT, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Meanwhile, Southeast Asian meth fell to less than 15% of seizures of the drug, a highly addictive and potent stimulant.
    Chris Lau, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The caffeine in green tea is a stimulant, increasing alertness and keeping you awake.
    Cynthia Sass, Mph, Rd, Health, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The temptation is only heightened when state-of-the-art stimulants are undetectable in the latest drug tests.
    Grant Clark and Henry Meyer | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Use it as a personal hype tool for days in need of a visual confidence stimulant.
    Vogue, 6 Oct. 2021
  • How did such an addictive stimulant come to be a routine part of so many people’s daily lives?
    Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2020
  • He got hooked on the stimulant Ritalin and is accused of using heavier drugs.
    Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2022
  • This means each bar is infused with a different type of mushroom that allows the sweet treat to double as a stimulant, sleep aid, or even aphrodisiac.
    Megan Wahn, Bon Appétit, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Even for people who consumed more than 400 mg of caffeine a day — just 4% of the study’s caffeine drinkers — the stimulant didn’t appear to have negative consequences for their cardiometabolic health.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024

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