Sentence examples for reflex in from inspiring English sources

A long dormant civic reflex in young people is roaring to life.

This sets off, in Buford's words, "some kind of Neanderthal reflex" in the viewer.

However, I don't see that reflex in these compositions [on the billboards].

For, in his account, it appears that fanaticism was an already present reflex in the region.

(Grayling mistakenly credits Descartes with the first known observation of a conditioned reflex, in 1630.

As in, politics today breeds a "partisan reflex" in its practitioners, which in turn pollutes the tone.

Imagining a loud noise caused an involuntary protective reflex in his eardrums, as though the sound had actually occurred.

"It's a reflex in many readers and reviewers to read great nature writing and cry 'poetry!'" he says.

Some even endorsed a training programme in which women pushed their fingers down their throat while suppressing their gagging reflex, in order to perfect their deep-throating skills.

Eating a human organ might trigger a gag reflex in some, but advocates point to the near ubiquitousness of the practice among mammals.

I set up targets, bought bows for my children, started pondering the differences between deflex and reflex in the way a bow bends.