How to Use dopamine in a Sentence

dopamine

noun
  • Quick dopamine, quick dopamine.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • His brain went kablooey on dopamine.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Soon, his brain was hooked on that dopamine rush.
    — Rachel Hale, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
  • But what about dopamine and pleasure?
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • And the getting is dopamine—quick dopamine.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • And that to me there is a laziness and there is sort of a dopamine drip.
    — NBC News, 31 Dec. 2017
  • Try dopamine fasting or, for a quick pick-me-up, get dopamine dressed.
    — Celia Ford, Vox, 22 May 2024
  • That glamorous rush makeup should spark is a dopamine hit.
    — Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 13 Apr. 2026
  • But dopamine is also key to speech and movement.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The pairing of dopamine and acetylcholine is the crux of the study.
    — Elana Spivack, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Writers have long been chasing that dopamine hit.
    — Bonnie Tsui, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026
  • This boosts blood flow which can increase serotonin and dopamine.
    — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 30 Sep. 2024
  • At the right levels, that dopamine helps keep movements sharp.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 2 Sep. 2021
  • If the body doesn’t need salt, that dopamine drip disappears.
    — Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
  • How does tech hijack the brain's dopamine system?
    — Alicia Garceau, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026
  • And maybe his illness, and his dopamine, were urging him to just do it!
    — Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
  • This act gave me that same surge of dopamine that trich had given me years before.
    — Ludmila Leiva, refinery29.com, 15 June 2020
  • The dopamine hit of the wins softens the sting of the losses and serves as a lure.
    — Adrienne So, Wired, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The dopamine neurons stop firing.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Some people get more of a kick from this dopamine response than others.
    — Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • If the body needs salt, those chips will cause a surge of pleasurable dopamine to flood the brain.
    — Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
  • What starts as hard work seems to have turned into a dopamine addiction.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Newness gives us a hit of dopamine, which fades as the novelty wears off.
    — Rainesford Stauffer, The Atlantic, 6 May 2021
  • So a dog named after a favorite food is sort of like a double-dopamine hit.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The progress gives you little shots of dopamine as your savings increase.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2022
  • At its most basic, dopamine decor can be boiled down to making bold choices.
    — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 June 2026
  • Or a dopamine-riddled ode to pinball and amusement parks.
    — Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Plus, the flash of red is the perfect burst of color when dressing for dopamine.
    — Town & Country, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The truth about dopamine is far more nuanced than current myths suggest.
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • The pleasure hormone, dopamine, might take your mind off any pain in itself.
    — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 19 May 2017

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