How to Use endorphin in a Sentence

endorphin

noun
  • Now is the time to get up, get my endorphins going, get the kids to school.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
  • And, of course, a great price point is like endorphins for my wallet.
    — Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 23 June 2026
  • But there were times the endorphin rushes weren't quite enough.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 12 Mar. 2020
  • In fact, singing alone or in groups has been shown to lower stress and raise endorphins.
    — Daniela Province, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Call it a runner’s high or a rush of endorphins while lifting weights.
    — Erik Vance, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Just ask anyone when the endorphins hit from those first few miles running.
    — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Pump up the endorphins — decrease the pain.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The endorphin rush that comes with buying and selling cards can now be just a click away.
    — Mark Billingsley, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There’s this — these little endorphins that were just going off in my head.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • What gets the endorphins going more than a drumline (and no, drugs don’t count)?
    — Erin Granat, Billboard, 29 July 2019
  • By the end, most of us were breathless and slightly sweaty, on a high of high-brow endorphins.
    — Amy Verner, Vogue, 2 May 2024
  • Exercise will keep you healthy, sharp, young, and full of endorphins.
    — Sheryl Posnick, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2017
  • With the lungs rinsed with the high clear air and burning with the work of movement, the blood brims with endorphins.
    — Maya Silver, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Fate is a one-track, high-speed train wreck, and for the audience, this means a swift rush of endorphins.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Your endorphins are in overdrive.
    — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Hot, fresh bread with sweet butter creates a release of endorphins.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Increase your endorphins — or the feel-good hormones in your brain — through movement.
    — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Moving in the same way, and at the same time, as others triggers a release of endorphins.
    — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Smart money, then, appears to be flowing with the endorphins.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • The capsaicin will blast those balky sinuses and give you an happy endorphin boost.
    — Debbie Moose, charlotteobserver, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The trick is not turning that cardio workout into a sprint endorphin rush.
    — Marty Munson, Men's Health, 23 June 2023
  • There’s just something about dancing that gets those endorphins moving.
    — Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The weather is lovely, and the endorphins are kicking!
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 11 Aug. 2025
  • See, your body knows that eating sugar triggers the release of endorphins.
    — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 26 Aug. 2016
  • But her brain kept chasing the endorphin rush of imagining two people in the throes of passion.
    — Lisa Bonos, Dallas News, 23 July 2019
  • An orgasm is the release of all that tension, plus a rush of an endorphin called serotonin that spills into your blood stream.
    — Yerin Kim, Seventeen, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The endorphins seem to come in moments of sudden and fleeting clarity.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2018
  • About 20 minutes of exercise can start to release the endorphins in your body.
    — Phil Blair, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 May 2017
  • For one thing, the endorphin and adrenaline rush that comes with a good scaring can produce a natural high.
    — Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Copper can promote the release of endorphins, which lift your mood and can reduce your perception of pain.
    — Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Health, 2 Oct. 2025

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