How to Use psych in a Sentence

psych

verb
  • He was trying to psych himself before the race.
  • As soon as the lights go down and that first chord plays you are just psyched.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], AL.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Her parents, namely her mom, were not that psyched about the idea.
    — Kim Fusaro, Woman's Day, 28 Mar. 2012
  • They weren’t psyched to be onstage in the middle of at trial.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 22 June 2018
  • Before games, guys are trying to get psyched up rather than relax.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Okay, so except for that last guy, most of the fans were psyched about the Dragons.
    — Charlotte Wilder, SI.com, 31 May 2018
  • Watch the celeb guest stars get psyched about their upcoming Idol duets below.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The Nebraska fans seemed to help psych the Gators out a bit in the fourth set.
    — Aaron Reiss, kansascity, 16 Dec. 2017
  • But this isn’t the first time McConaughey has psyched one of his costars out on set.
    — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Some may be into a little bit of a trim… but not all that psyched about the upkeep of taking all off.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 9 Feb. 2023
  • There's no real preparation to like pump myself up or psych myself out for those kind of scenes.
    — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Watch the full video here, and get psyched for one of the biggest rivalry games in college football.
    — Matt Jennings, ajc, 11 Oct. 2017
  • They're psyched for the big pour, for example, in Calvert County.
    — David Sturm, Columbia Flier, 16 May 2017
  • There are people who have to psych themselves up to enter a gym and people who have to work hard to get in the mood to rage.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, SELF, 27 Oct. 2018
  • Her kids, now in their 20s, were not psyched about a potential lifetime of colonoscopies.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 11 May 2017
  • Fallon is always the most freaked out, just doing the absolute most to psych himself out.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Sure, fans trying to psych out players is part of the game, but sometimes fans cross the line with personal attacks.
    — The Tylt, OregonLive.com, 12 May 2017
  • Of course, not every creator will be psyched to jump on this new payment method, Mandelbrot tells me.
    — Ashley Carman, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
  • The Scouts built their cars from wood and decorated them for speed – or to maybe psych out their competitors.
    — Orange County Register, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Fans watch for the excitement, for the tension, for the release, to be psyched up, for the thrill, for the enjoyment.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 14 July 2018
  • That's a career path that many trying to make it in the entertainment industry would be psyched to have.
    — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 12 May 2018
  • The crowd goes from raucous to quiet; then Vea psyches himself up, and the fans in this room start cheering again.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • From hotline to psych hospital, the focus is on risk management.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • Fresh off a recent plank challenge of my own, I was psyched when the folks at Stealth offered to send me a trainer to try.
    — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • That this dumb, fun series lasted three whole movies is a feat in itself, let alone the impending all-female spinoff (which we are psyched for).
    — Tom Philip, GQ, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Still others may be into a little bit of a trim… but not all that psyched about the upkeep of taking *any* of it alllll off.
    — Kim Tranell, Seventeen, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Later at Big Cat Rescue, she was psyched there was a snow leopard at that sanctuary.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The locker room is reminiscent of my bathroom and hanging out with my friends getting ready to go out for the night and psyching each other up.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Marie Claire, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Demetrius Johnson shot 88, and he wasn't psyched about it because his best score on the Creek Course is a 75.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Because just like Queen Elizabeth, Drake has been using his wardrobe to psych out the competition.
    — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 5 June 2019

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