How to Use agoraphobic in a Sentence

agoraphobic

adjective
  • My father was a textbook agoraphobic who shut himself off from the world and at the end was leaving his house only once or twice a year.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2024
  • When Lemon’s agoraphobic mother dies suddenly, five-year-old Lemon goes outside for the first time in search of her father.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The question is never answered by Midge, my agoraphobic chihuahua, but the answer is obvious.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 29 July 2021
  • The series follows Ataru Aida, an agoraphobic young man who is fired from his job and takes his frustrations out on the internet.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Her brother, Casey (Spike Fearn), is an agoraphobic shut-in failing to confront his mounting mental-health crises.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Jimmy Choo and others are also indulging newly agoraphobic patrons with one-on-one, appointment-only shopping slots.
    — Drew Hutchinson, Bloomberg.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Amy Adams signed on to play agoraphobic child psychologist Anna Fox in 2018.
    — Annabel Gutterman, Time, 14 May 2021
  • The Whale, about a depressed and agoraphobic man struggling with obesity, is a tour de force for Brendan Fraser but otherwise divisive among viewers.
    — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Eighteen-year-old Dakota (Whitney Peak) lost her father at a young age and is still traumatized by the recent death of her mother, her anxiety making her agoraphobic.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Adams is fine as the agoraphobic psychologist who apparently witnesses a murder in the Harlem brownstone across the street from her, but aside from a few nice set pieces the film feels weirdly inert and tellingly dumbed down.
    — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 21 May 2021
  • Bullock plays Loretta Sage, a romance novelist and frustrated academic who has become borderline agoraphobic after the death of her husband.
    — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The experience can be difficult for the heat-susceptible, agoraphobic, the frail or very young; Mecca during the Hajj is often stifling hot, humid and beyond overcrowded.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2012
  • The Woman in the Window stars Amy Adams as an agoraphobic doctor who witnesses something horrible while keeping tabs on the seemingly perfect family that lives across the street.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Its agoraphobic heroine, a psychologist named Anna (Adams), spends every day in sleepwear, drinking, abusing prescription meds and watching old black-and-white movies on TV.
    — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
  • Bernadette Fox, a brilliant but agoraphobic architect, mysteriously disappears, sending her 15-year-old daughter, Bee, on a determined search.
    — Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Pairs an eccentric, agoraphobic arm-chair detective with a reluctant traffic cop in a series that showcases community, connection and yes, only-in-Florida characters.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Many agoraphobic individuals are essentially homebound, crippled by their anxiety.
    — John Duffy, CNN, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Danny is agoraphobic, socially anxious, obsessive, something of a hypochondriac and nominally a journalist, that most nominal of television professions.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • In 2015, Cusack won her first Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her five-season run as the agoraphobic Sheila Jackson in Shameless.
    — Laura Millar, PEOPLE, 20 June 2026
  • That means overcoming Ella’s hostility and bridging the divide with her uncommunicative kid brother Casey (Spike Fearn), an MIT graduate who has become an agoraphobic shut-in since his breakup with beloved girlfriend Susan (Ayo Edebiri).
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Dec. 2025

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