Example Sentences

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Just make sure you do not play on your phone or a video game - the blue light makes us feel less sleepy and the activity is stimulating.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2024

Cells in the brain communicate with one another by means of electrical signals, which can be excitatory, that is, stimulating, or inhibitory.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023

With rates at zero, the ECB is stimulating the economy and remains far from the neutral rate, which is estimated by economists to be around 1.5%.

From Reuters • Aug. 27, 2022

For one thing, such gadgetry is stimulating, and convinces the brain that it should stay awake and pay attention even when you want it to start to relax.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2021

This narrow waterway that passes down between Asia on the one side and Africa on the other is stimulating to the imagination.

From Round the Wonderful World by Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson)