How to Use stimulus in a Sentence

stimulus

noun

• The dog responded to the stimulus of the ringing bell.
• The pay raise was a stimulus for production.
• Heat and light are physical stimuli.
• This means that 90% of the stimulus goes to one side while 10% goes to the other.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2024
• But for all the visual stimuli that Kraftwerk crammed into the evening, the real star of the show was the sound design.
  — Andrew Barker, Variety, 22 May 2024
• The fall of the Soviet Union brought a confusion of stimuli.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• Adding the fly to your routine gives your pecs and front deltoids a new stimulus.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 7 Dec. 2022
• The shape change comes about in response to an outside stimulus.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2022
• Biden did help juice inflation with a round of stimulus checks in March 2021.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 31 May 2022
• The move be an economic stimulus for downtown Youngstown and bring some decent jobs to the area.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
• The county has pledged $1.5 million in stimulus funds to cover the cost, as well as to pay back the county for prior use.
  — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 18 July 2022
• Lost in all the talk around tariffs is the news that China announced a new stimulus package.
  — Michael Foster, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
• New York City schools, the largest district in the country, received over $7 billion in stimulus funds.
  — Shruti Date Singh and Nic Querolo Bloomberg News (tns), Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2023
• After waiting two years for a stimulus payment, the IRS then paid him twice.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
• The stimulus checks – one worth as much as $1,500 – are meant to help Americans struggling to pay for the rising costs of food, gas and housing.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 24 Jan. 2023
• But that all changed when the pandemic closed the economy and forced the release of trillions of dollars in stimulus.
  — Robert E. Lighthizer, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2024
• Economists have called for fiscal stimulus for months, and say this is a small step in the right direction.
  — WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
• The city's car market is in line to receive a stimulus injection, too.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 30 May 2022
• So, all the math and science that people looked at for years has kind of gotten thrown straight because a massive stimulus went in.
  — CBS News, 4 Dec. 2022
• Some of those young workers put their stimulus checks into the stock market, some researchers have found.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2024
• That’s because these kinds of stimuli can lead to head-splitting aches, nausea, dizziness, and fatigue.
  — Julia Sullivan, SELF, 14 Mar. 2024
• Each stimulus can trigger the rise of one set of molecules in an animal’s body and perhaps the fall of others.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
• The second question is, was there more stimulus applied to the Covid issues than needed.
  — CBS News, 11 Aug. 2024
• Households above the poverty line were thus more likely to receive stimulus checks and the child tax credit than those below it.
  — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
• Some of them used government stimulus checks to launch their new ventures.
  — Rohit Arora, Forbes, 27 May 2022
• Many Americans did not get their stimulus check on time.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
• Carly points out that the prostate and G-Spot are roughly equivalent, and that your body’s response to stimulus can change due to hormones.
  — Evelyn Bauer, Them, 16 Aug. 2024
• This is the fourth direct stimulus payment to Hong Kong residents since covid-19 emerged.
  — Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 13 June 2022
• The city used federal stimulus dollars to keep the budget roaring.
  — cleveland, 4 Feb. 2023
• Biden then delivered what had been largely missing for the previous two decades: fiscal stimulus.
  — Matthew A. Winkler Bloomberg Opinion (tns), arkansasonline.com, 23 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025