How to Use phobic in a Sentence

phobic

adjective
  • She is phobic about heights.
  • Be tech-savvy, not tech-phobic.
    — Lynda Silsbee, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • There is still no cure for noise-phobic pets, but there are ways to comfort them.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 26 June 2020
  • That can mean a stressful week for people with noise-phobic pets.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, courant.com, 22 June 2018
  • Parents of noise-phobic dogs and cats start to get uneasy this time of year.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 26 June 2020
  • This solution is ideal for pets that are anxious, stressed, or phobic.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2022
  • But there are also the good reasons, often overlooked in leisure-phobic culture.
    — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 5 July 2021
  • This 4th of July holiday will be a long stretch of misery for noise-phobic dogs.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 28 June 2019
  • Next to the skin is a high-tech, moisture-phobic fiber than wicks moisture quickly out to the merino outer layer.
    — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 23 July 2020
  • For needle-phobic adults, one brand uses a needle-free jet injector that pushes vaccine through the skin.
    — NBC News, 26 Sep. 2019
  • For example, some people are phobic of elevators or of leaving their homes.
    — Steven Hassan For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 29 Sep. 2021
  • On cat forums and Twitter, the cat-toothbrushing-phobic joke about losing their fingers.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Your pediatrician likely has dealt with many needle-phobic children and might have ideas for easing your child's fears.
    — Moira Szilagyi, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021
  • For needle phobic people, McMurtry suggests sticking to a plan to guide yourself through the process.
    — Tara Law, Time, 7 May 2021
  • For someone who is already sort of shy and occasionally socially phobic, that was a very deadly trap to fall into.
    — Lenika Cruz, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
  • My eating disorder was not an exercise in vanity or a haphazard way, in a fat-phobic world, to simply lose weight.
    — Caroline Rothstein, Marie Claire, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Some people have an almost phobic fear of uncertainty and construct their lives to minimize it as much as possible.
    — Prudy Gourguechon, Forbes, 13 June 2021
  • Meanwhile, millennials see baby boomers as smug know-it-all, old-school, tech-phobic dinosaurs from a different bygone era.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
  • So does this mean spoiler-phobic viewers will have to start getting up early on Fridays, instead of Wednesdays?
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • To me, this is not just an argument for digital detox, or a smartphone-phobic repackaging of the familiar idea that the journey is the destination.
    — Alex Williams, New York Times, 18 May 2020
  • Even among those who support the American-phobic and anti-Ukrainian propaganda myths, there are bitter disputes.
    — Stanislav Kucher, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
  • In this early project, Goodman described himself as commitment phobic while Walsh purported to fall in love perhaps too easily.
    — Tahneer Oksman, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
  • But as Americans became more health-conscious (or fat-phobic, depending on your POV), fondue fell out of favor.
    — Michelle Tchea, Bon Appétit, 14 Feb. 2023
  • To help the needle-phobic, McMurtry says that vaccination sites should let people know ahead of time which questions they’ll be asked and what accommodations can be made for them.
    — Tara Law, Time, 7 May 2021
  • For others, vaccine clinics that cater to certain populations, such as the homeless, the neurodiverse, or the needle-phobic, can also have a small but important impact.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Even the most math-phobic person is likely to have no trouble grasping the idea that if a symbol refers to a number of things, then the opposite is true as well — most school kids aren’t struggling with the very meaning of numbers, after all.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2019
  • Ashton Kutcher plays Peter, a commitment-phobic New York business guru who’d rather be a novelist.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
  • And even for those that aren’t MSG-phobic, there’s still a shroud of mystery surrounding how to incorporate it into a regular arsenal of seasonings.
    — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Grandma is on Instagram Contrary to stereotypes that cast older adults as tech-phobic, many older people are learning new skills to become more familiar with technology.
    — Marcia G. Ory, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2020
  • My contribution to the debate is a reminder that this is the one-year anniversary of the release of the landmark Plain View Project, which exposed police officers’ racist and phobic public posts on Facebook.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 12 June 2020

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