How to Use hyperactive in a Sentence

hyperactive

adjective
  • When Laney runs, his hyperactive brain calms down, and in its place is a calm rhythm.
    — Jennifer Kuhns, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Of course, Zola was hyperactive in his own way.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
  • Picnics are a way of tapping the brakes, even as life goes back to its usual hyperactive speed.
    — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 June 2022
  • After that, all bets are off in what is predicted to be a hyperactive season.
    — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 19 July 2024
  • For people like me, that function is a little more hyperactive.
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
  • And male dogs were more hyperactive and aggressive than female ones.
    — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Lines were spoken as if newly coined from the hyperactive minds of Macbeth and his wife.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • When he was hired, the lingo sounded over-the-top and easy to dismiss as the musings of a hyperactive mind.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Redemption comes in many guises, and that is what this clever, hyperactive story is all about.
    — Pamela Miller, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
  • And the hyperactive pace of news, which ramped up during the campaign and hasn’t slowed down much, is a major factor.
    — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 10 May 2017
  • But don’t assume this hyperactive SUV is all play and no work.
    — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The beauty of a pizzeria from a hyperactive chef is the menagerie of flavors that come together.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • From a young age, his family says, Job was brilliant but hyperactive.
    — Erin Woo, The Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2019
  • The under-12 crowd darts through the hyperactive jets of a fountain embedded in the pavers.
    — Curbed, 27 July 2022
  • His family, speaking in court, described him as a hyperactive kid who was placed in foster homes twice.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
  • After 24 hours at 4G, flies stayed hyperactive for weeks.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
  • Chris Jericho stood with his back to the hyperactive crowd, his arms outstretched and lights flashing on his jacket.
    — Dan Gelston, miamiherald, 26 May 2017
  • Initially, there is a lot of crying, a lot of acting out, there is a lot of hyperactive behavior.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 July 2019
  • And yes, the hyperactive Hamilton watches Netflix at the end of the day.
    — Lisa Boone, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
  • Women danced in hyperactive bachelorette kinds of groups, while the men in jackets, some in shiny silk shirts, swayed with more adult decorum.
    — Holly Peterson, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Sure enough, people with IBS have been shown to have a hyperactive amygdala.
    — Jessica Wapner, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The drug’s main goal is to balance certain chemicals in the brain that cause poor attention spans when hyperactive.
    — Dallas News, 24 July 2022
  • The hyperactive pace of this year’s 60-day short legislative session shows in the numbers.
    — Joseph O’Sullivan, The Seattle Times, 11 Feb. 2018
  • The mothers have one mutation that makes the neuron hyperactive and another that mutes it.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • The play’s hyperactive rhythm seems especially cramped on the Fountain’s tiny stage.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Check out the full list of stops, which comes with support from the similarly hyperactive Dazegxd, below.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The muscle, which was strong enough to keep the birds in flight, turned out to be metabolically hyperactive even after it had been pulverized.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Dustin was their fifth child, a hyperactive mess of red hair who sometimes preached at his father’s church in tiny Ekalaka, Montana.
    — Alden Woods, azcentral, 29 June 2018
  • The structure called the cingulate gyrus, curving through the center of the brain, is hyperactive in murderers.
    — Rob Verger, Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2014
  • The eels in the cocaine water appeared more hyperactive to the biologists than the eels in cocaine-free water.
    — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2021

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