Sentence examples for reflexes my from inspiring English sources

A year or two ago I was back in the U.S. at a big family gathering when my cousin Bob said, "Hey, do you have an email address?." With lightning reflexes, my left hand dove into my purse and snatched a little aluminum case from the depths.

He listened to my breath and my heart; looked in my eyes and my ears; felt my neck, my abdomen and my kidneys; and tested my strength, my reflexes and my balance.

Something is wrong — on exam, my big toes point up, my reflexes jump, my muscles catch, my index finger shivers in a sign of a spinal lesion — but they can't say what.

I can still vividly see the expression in his eyes when he checked my reflexes and my feet bobbed up and down in midair.

By reflex, my body traveled back to high school and struck the pose of a third-baseman fielding a ground ball.

(I say probably because there's always the small chance she really does take sick delight in watching my gag reflexes fire on overload, as I scoop up her poop with a plastic bag over my hand, then try not to use that specific hand for eating the rest of the day because I swear there is still the faint ghost smell of feces on it).

This is a land with finely-honed Nimby — "not in my backyard" — reflexes, where planners spend months, or years, seeking to overcome objections to all manner of new development by those living nearby: The new structure will block "ancient light"; it will strain amenities; overload parking facilities; change a neighborhood's character; obstruct the prospect of a church spire.

Now, despite my Pavlovian reflex, browsing my mail is not merely unexciting but depressing.

Despite my efforts to keep calm, the automatic reflexes of my body made me shiver with fear".

And the sad truth is that by now no one wants me to drive a car - my reflexes are too aberrant, my tendency to daydream too marked.

A lot of my reflexes are hyper, especially my startle reflex.