Example sentences for: emotions

How can you use “emotions” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Following the injection of the blocker, the researchers observed an increase of the brain chemical CRF in the amygdala, a portion of the brain involved with the emotions of fear and aggression.

  • Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents suggests an answer: as civilization “progresses,” it removes itself further and further from harshness and crude emotions.

  • "The conquest of space has moved ahead with breath-taking speed since the Space Age began on October 4, 1957," says the 1960 edition of the World Book , without shame because it's just an inanimate object and can't feel shame, unlike some kind of Space World Book of the future that will know all human emotions and will be perfected any minute.

  • In Freudian terms, the Niceness Principle is often equivalent to the defense mechanism of reversal, in which the individual transforms the situation into its opposite, usually as a retreat from unpleasant emotions.

  • During those several weeks of early summer the world could listen to articulate speakers of English who have the ability to manipulate our minds and twist our emotions with word-images.


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