How do you use the word "reflex" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "reflex" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "reflex": Thank you very much. Thank you for activating my gag reflex. To me helping is a normal thing, a reflex, if you will, like breathing.

Reflex Meaning

/ˈɹiːflɛks/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAn automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.

nounThe descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.

Sentence Examples

Thank you very much. Thank you for activating my gag reflex.

To me helping is a normal thing, a reflex, if you will, like breathing.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

automatic involuntary

Antonyms:

voluntary

CEFR Practice Quiz

When a doctor taps your knee, a ____ makes your leg kick out automatically.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The doctor tested the patient's knee ____ by tapping it gently with a small rubber hammer.

Word Origin & History

From Late Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere (“to bend back”), equivalent to re- + flex. Photography sense is from noun sense meaning “reflection”. Compare English reflect.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive." — 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:

"The Middle Korean reflex for mey was mwoy 뫼" — 2011, Ki-Moon Lee, S. Robert Ramsey, A history of the Korean language:

"The superstition of the loup-garou, or werewolf, belongs to the folklore of most modern nations, and has its reflex in the story of "Little Red Riding-hood" and others." — 1898, Christian Brinton, The Century:

"Yon gray is not the morning’s eye, ’Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow." — c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

"On the depths of death there swims The reflex of a human face." — 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “(please specify |part=Prologue or Epilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX)”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

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