phobia

How To Use phobia In A Sentence

• Silence is the rule for our heroes, and that means a bit of extra claustrophobia to scenes that would otherwise be totally generic.
• Also well known is hydrophobia, literally ‘fear of water ‘, as a name for rabies, which sometimes appears to cause such a sensation in sufferers because it makes the throat swell and so it becomes difficult for the victim to swallow.’
• The plagues of aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia, anti-semitism and ethnic tension are still widespread.
• The most common, with 54 per cent of us suffering, is the fear of spiders — arachnophobia. The Sun
• This antimodernist nativism pervaded the 1920s, but it was particularly visible in the scientific racism of the eugenics movement, the xenophobia of the "100 percent American" movement, the sharp resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan, the post – World War One Red Scare (directed primarily at immigrant radicals), and in a series of draconian immigration restriction acts. 11 Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
• But a growing number accept school phobia as a valid reason to keep their little ones out of the classroom. The Sun
• Despite suffering with emetophobia for nearly 75 years, last year she finally tackled her fear with the support of a therapist.
• I have always had a phobia about pregnancy and childbirth, the whole idea of it repulses me beyond belief.
• Clyde's request stemmed from either a headache or a sudden phobia, he wasn't sure which. DO NO HARM
• Racism, homophobia, McCarthyism, classism, it's all on display as they try to muzzle those who disagree by vitriolic, personal attack.