How to Use hyperactive in a Sentence

hyperactive

adjective
Definition of hyperactivenext
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  • When Laney runs, his hyperactive brain calms down, and in its place is a calm rhythm.
    — Jennifer Kuhns, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The under-12 crowd darts through the hyperactive jets of a fountain embedded in the pavers.
    — Curbed, 27 July 2022
  • That’s a problem of the hyperactive hive-mind work flow.
    — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2023
  • And yes, the hyperactive Hamilton watches Netflix at the end of the day.
    — Lisa Boone, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
  • When he was hired, the lingo sounded over-the-top and easy to dismiss as the musings of a hyperactive mind.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2020
  • And the hyperactive pace of news, which ramped up during the campaign and hasn’t slowed down much, is a major factor.
    — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 10 May 2017
  • But don’t assume this hyperactive SUV is all play and no work.
    — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Picnics are a way of tapping the brakes, even as life goes back to its usual hyperactive speed.
    — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 June 2022
  • Sure enough, people with IBS have been shown to have a hyperactive amygdala.
    — Jessica Wapner, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The beauty of a pizzeria from a hyperactive chef is the menagerie of flavors that come together.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The hyperactive camerawork of the first episode works to keep pace with a script that’s written in the bing-bang-boom rhythm of a Mamet play, where the joke’s on everyone.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The hyperactive pace of this year’s 60-day short legislative session shows in the numbers.
    — Joseph O’Sullivan, The Seattle Times, 11 Feb. 2018
  • In many ways, Sheveluch is like Mount St. Helens' hyperactive cousin.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Chris Jericho stood with his back to the hyperactive crowd, his arms outstretched and lights flashing on his jacket.
    — Dan Gelston, miamiherald, 26 May 2017
  • In fact, the fast-talking hyperactive chef from Newport Beach is flummoxed with her mystery partrner from the get go.
    — Nancy Luna, Orange County Register, 10 Feb. 2017
  • Women danced in hyperactive bachelorette kinds of groups, while the men in jackets, some in shiny silk shirts, swayed with more adult decorum.
    — Holly Peterson, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The structure called the cingulate gyrus, curving through the center of the brain, is hyperactive in murderers.
    — Rob Verger, Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2014
  • Dustin was their fifth child, a hyperactive mess of red hair who sometimes preached at his father’s church in tiny Ekalaka, Montana.
    — Alden Woods, azcentral, 29 June 2018
  • Although the team around him has been hyperactive, Mr Johnson himself has sat out most of the chances to debate or be interviewed.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2019
  • After that, all bets are off in what is predicted to be a hyperactive season.
    — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 19 July 2024
  • The result is a bourbon that is just a bit too much, and the use of Spanish oak here comes across almost like a hyperactive cask finish in terms of its effect on the flavor.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 18 June 2023
  • The season is now just one named storm away from tying the infamous and hyperactive 2005 season which made it as far as Zeta.
    — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2020
  • At this second of two back-to-back Garden shows, Eilish commanded every inch of the stage like a hyperactive court jester.
    — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Redemption comes in many guises, and that is what this clever, hyperactive story is all about.
    — Pamela Miller, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The drug’s main goal is to balance certain chemicals in the brain that cause poor attention spans when hyperactive.
    — Dallas News, 24 July 2022
  • The muscle, which was strong enough to keep the birds in flight, turned out to be metabolically hyperactive even after it had been pulverized.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The eels in the cocaine water appeared more hyperactive to the biologists than the eels in cocaine-free water.
    — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Studies have shown, for instance, that people with PTSD have hyperactive amygdalae, which are a region of the brain that helps process emotions.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2023
  • So far, the season hasn't logged an exceptional number of storms, despite early warnings of a hyperactive season.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Neurons become hyperactive, astrocytes and microglia become stuffed with lipids and less effective, and cells called oligodendrocytes fail to maintain the sheathing around nerve fibers.
    — Byjocelyn Kaiser, science.org, 12 Sep. 2024

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