How to Use phobia in a Sentence

phobia

noun
  • His fear of crowds eventually developed into a phobia.
  • Watch Cyrus talk about her paper phobia above.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2025
  • One of my prompts on the app detailed my phobia of snails in detail.
    — Isoke Atiba, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Why is fear of flying such a common phobia?
    — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2025
  • His father has many food phobias and drug issues.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • All that other stuff is learned — all that phobia and hatred and fear is taught.
    — Christina Schoellkopf, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2017
  • Fears don’t get much more false than today’s rising-rate phobia.
    — Ken Fisher, USA TODAY, 10 June 2018
  • The idea stems from a very specific phobia.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Just seeing a photo of a snake is enough to trigger my phobia.
    — By Susan Vollenweider, kansascity.com, 9 May 2017
  • The study also found the phobia was more prevalent among women than men.
    — Jack Beresford, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Still, Game of Thrones might take the cake for spoiler-phobia.
    — Laura Bradley, HWD, 11 July 2017
  • Banish you phobia of Brussels sprouts with this tasty and easy recipe.
    — Country Living, 1 Sep. 2010
  • He was ridden with phobias of death, darkness, and open spaces.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 6 June 2018
  • My wife and our 12-year-old daughter both find opossums and my phobia adorable.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • If the thought of being cramped in a tight space triggers your flight phobia, book an aisle seat in advance.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The person with a phobia does not want to be terrified of spiders.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Despite its name, photophobia is not a phobia or a fear of lights.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 7 Apr. 2025
  • My mother-in-law has an instinctive hatred for dogs that seems like a phobia.
    — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • By confronting the source of his fear in a safe setting, the person learns to manage that phobia.
    — Markham Heid, Time, 23 May 2018
  • Many of the most common phobias, from flying to heights, come out when people travel.
    — Alyson Krueger, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 June 2019
  • One Reddit poster said bi-erasure and bi-phobia are huge problems.
    — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 23 Aug. 2017
  • According to research, the fear of flying is one of the most prevalent phobias in the world.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Statham’s character is, we’re told, subject to a bunch of neuroses and phobias, none of which come in to play.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2023
  • To those of us who would like our language to be a bit more concise than a dog’s bark, a phobia is an irrational fear.
    — James Lileks, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • Fat phobia is a moral panic crafted from fears about free Black women in public life.
    — Tressie McMillan Cottom, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Despite all these benefits, snakes are among humans’ top phobias.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2026
  • As seen in the video above, even before the fire alarm goes off, the dog was triggered, which happens to canines with phobias.
    — Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
  • There’s no need to keep your phobia a secret and suffer in silence, Sawhne stresses.
    — Angela Haupt, TIME, 22 May 2024
  • How to overcome your fears Most of us, including me, have a short list of travel phobias.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Arachnophobia, the clinical term for a , is one of the world's most common phobias.
    — Jack Beresford, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025

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