How to Use hypersensitive in a Sentence

hypersensitive

adjective
Definition of hypersensitivenext
Synonyms for hypersensitivenext
  • People who are hypersensitive to the chemical may have violent reactions even to small amounts.
  • She's hypersensitive about her past.
  • Snook are hypersensitive to the cold and will move out at the slightest dip of the thermometer.
    — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Big cities are hypersensitive to what the next guy is doing.
    — Tyler Moss, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2017
  • Davies films the momentous times with a grand yet hypersensitive style to match.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The whiplash from the stunning speed of that shift has left my whole being hypersensitive to any sudden movement, to being jerked around.
    — Lisa Richardson, Longreads, 8 Apr. 2020
  • After all, their fellow politicians are nothing if not hypersensitive to even the slightest shifts in the winds of power.
    — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 14 July 2019
  • His hypersensitive ears perceived the slightest sound as torture, and he was forced to retreat to the countryside.
    — Matthew Jordan, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Now, those kids are pouring out of campus by the millions, and the most demanding, annoying, and hypersensitive among them go straight to work .
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 23 June 2022
  • Wallen shared that a doctor diagnosed her with hypersensitive pelvic nerves, which is believed to have caused her PGAD.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2024
  • But this other idea of being hypersensitive to the way things feel on a sensory level.
    — Chris Payne, Billboard, 28 June 2018
  • Others, like the rhino beetle’s borns, are hypersensitive and grow huge, out of all proportion to the rest of their bearer’s anatomy.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2012
  • June 30th: Everyone will be hypersensitive near the 17th, so try to be gentle.
    — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 16 June 2022
  • To the Harwood Heights girl, the world is loud, sometimes too loud, but her hypersensitive hearing is credited with saving the life of her neighbor last winter.
    — Anna Kim, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2020
  • My toes felt as if my socks were bunched up beneath them, while the balls of my feet had become hypersensitive; a stray grain of cat litter underfoot was maddening.
    — Lynn Peterson Mobley, Washington Post, 8 July 2018
  • Image Going out in public required becoming hypersensitive to mobs at the supermarket or on the street who, lost in their phones or thoughts, all seemed to head straight for me.
    — Josh Max, New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • If the now hypersensitive person is stung again, their immune system will, in essence, overreact to those proteins.
    — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 17 Mar. 2018
  • In these mice, the PNNs remained intact after the sciatic nerve surgery and, remarkably, the mice did not become hypersensitive to painful stimuli.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 July 2022
  • In the film, Bella Thorne’s character, Katie, has the rare genetic disorder, making her hypersensitive to the sun.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • But investors are currently hypersensitive to even slight changes in tone.
    — Richard Barley, WSJ, 20 July 2017
  • But in keeping with their hypersensitive approach, the Bigfoot folks have now filed a defamation lawsuit in Taney County, Missouri.
    — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 12 June 2018
  • Fake news is a sign of intolerant and hypersensitive attitudes, and leads only to the spread of arrogance and hatred.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2018
  • During migraine headache attacks, inflammation around the blood vessels in say, the dura, makes the pain fibers hypersensitive, Collins notes.
    — Brittany Edelmann, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
  • In fact, scientists who've studied the changes in a mother's brain post-birth have found that adjustments in the amygdala — a small set of neurons shaped like an almond — can make a mother hypersensitive to the needs of her newborn.
    — Jessica Zucker, Good Housekeeping, 8 Apr. 2020
  • In some cases, doctors may still use cisplatin to treat patients — for instance, in those who are hypersensitive to carboplatin.
    — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Plucking Strings , which are small, hypersensitive grooves that deform with even the slightest disturbance.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2014
  • His claim that Obergefell burdened religious freedom is also a worrying one in a court that is hypersensitive to those claims.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 May 2022
  • The boy has severe headaches and is hypersensitive to normal levels of sound, according to his aunt and Dr. Amy Cohen, an advocate working with the family.
    — Nomaan Merchant, Houston Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Many white people feel that this term is used too haphazardly, and that being called racist is a silencing tactic deployed by hypersensitive people of color who don’t want to move on from the past.
    — Brittney Cooper, Cosmopolitan, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Sunlight Sunlight and other sources of ultraviolet (UV) light can cause a hypersensitive immune response that worsens several skin conditions.
    — Jennifer Sabour, Health, 10 May 2024

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