How to Use mind game in a Sentence

mind game

noun
  • That’s a mind game to hold you down mentally.
    — Byron Armstrong, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In the end, like the series, Finch won the mind game.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 1 May 2026
  • There are a lot of mind games that savvy businesses play with consumers.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Follett said that dogs can learn balance, agility and do mind games.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Soccer's weird tiebreaker is a mix of skill, luck, mind games, and heartbreak.
    — Allen St. John, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2018
  • Play a little mind game with yourself to really get that heart rate up!
    — Kimberly Harrington, The New Yorker, 5 May 2022
  • In that moment, Imogen plays a mind game and knows quickly to do so.
    — Vulture, 19 Aug. 2022
  • There's no trail of evidence to suggest the Cavs play the same mind games.
    — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The tough-guy display is likely part of a campaign of cold-weather mind games.
    — Gabrielle Bruney, Esquire, 31 Dec. 2017
  • These coaches do not like each other and appear to be playing mind games in the lead-up.
    — Steven Ruiz, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The mind games have started, the statistics are being mulled over.
    — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 1 July 2019
  • Companies play those mind games and a lot of people are afraid to leave promotions.
    — Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Refuse to let anyone distract you or waste your time playing emotional mind games with you.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
  • Determining the proper pitch was a mind game with the batter.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Each has their own rules, aesthetic, and fanbase but all aim to puzzle the mind game strategists among us.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 11 Mar. 2022
  • This was a shocking step for the show, which prides itself on being a free-for-all of deceit, mind games and treachery.
    — Noam Cohen, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The mind game oil companies are stuck in Oil companies have known about climate change for a long time.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Petrified Forest can feel like a mind game for most visitors.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 5 May 2020
  • Oh, the mind games coaches play; Northwestern hasn’t won a conference game since last year.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Distance yourself from anyone who is unstable or playing mind games.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 25 July 2019
  • Some in the sport wondered if the Norwegians were playing mind games with their competitors.
    — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The mind game is so important in golf that most professionals employ mental coaches on their teams.
    — Carmine Gallo, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • Consumers who angst for detailed storyline and a potpourri of mind games will devour this encounter.
    — Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Traffickers use all kinds of terror tactics and mind games to establish control over women.
    — Maggie Mertens, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The three-day event brings the spectacle of the big-top to life through uncovering the mysteries of magic, mind games and more.
    — Nikki Delamotte, cleveland.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • All Blacks boss Steve Hansen was more reserved when asked about the mind games coaches play with each other ahead of crunch games.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019
  • But Ream also has a history of mind games, toying with investigators in a game of cat and mouse.
    — Elisha Anderson, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2018
  • Our guys fall short in the mind game, an inability to construct points with deliberate placement of serves or volleys.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2022
  • Skinner delights in these edible mind games, the most nostalgic of which springs from something his grandmother made for him all her life.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 June 2019
  • The mind games, manufacturing runs, dugout traditions, great defense, windy nights and garlic fries.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 21 Sep. 2019

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