How to Use "phobic" with Example Sentences

1. Despite these troubles , the socially phobic teens were no more likely than their counterparts to be taking medication .

2. Germany forecast thatcher would be phobic about inflation while the euro would prove fatal to the poorer countries because it would " devastate their inefficient economies " .

3. I could have forced myself to go along to ballet with the girls and then the library and then the spiders and snakes party , but I 'm a bit phobic when it comes to tarantulas and it was raining and ......

4. In exposure therapy , the phobic person puts him or herself in the presence of whatever they fear -- heights , spiders , etc. -- until , through habituation , they lose their fear of that situation or object .