Sentence examples for in a reflex action from inspiring English sources
"How do you do, son?" "In a reflex action, Russell takes it.
Immediately after the shooting, officials have said, Officer Neri, who has not yet been formally interviewed by investigators, made statements suggesting he had been startled by Mr. Stansbury and that his gun had gone off, perhaps in a reflex action that police academies try to guard against during training.
"Then I saw a man reverse his rifle at me. "I ducked down a little bit in a reflex action.
Knight said he had brushed de Silva's cheek in a "reflex action". Knight, handcuffed, was taken to jail, where he was locked up for about 10 minutes.
Ultrasonic frequencies trigger a reflex action in the noctuid moth that cause it to drop a few inches in its flight to evade attack.
Almost as a reflex action, done in shock and relief at lifting the siege, Russell put boot to ball and hoofed it into touch.
"Did you hear me?!" And then it was almost as if it was a reflex action or something instinctual kicked in but at that moment I just started speaking Vietnamese.
What she found, and reported with colleagues in a paper in Current Biology in 2008, was that when a predator loomed, the takeoff was not just a reflex action.
To some extent, such sentiments are a reflex action from a nation at war, albeit a limited war in which the vast majority of casualties are on the other side.
