How to Use anabolic steroid in a Sentence

anabolic steroid

noun
  • More common than stimulant use is the use of anabolic steroids.
    Philip D. Harvey, Ph.d., miamiherald, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Oxymetholone is an anabolic steroid that can promote muscle gain and strength for people with anemia.
    Cristina Mutchler, Health, 16 June 2023
  • Clenbuterol is an anabolic steroid that bodybuilders often use to lose fat and promote lean muscle mass.
    Dallas News, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Those who know the side effects of anabolic steroids are switching to legal steroid alternatives.
    Discover Magazine, 30 June 2023
  • In anabolic steroid abuse, people with normal testosterone levels supplement with steroids and bring their testosterone over the top.
    Ben Radding, Men's Health, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Some peptides trigger reactions in the body similar to those of anabolic steroids.
    Michael Powell, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Palmeiro framed his return, in part, as a chance to clear his name after being suspended in 2005 for testing positive for anabolic steroids.
    Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 9 May 2018
  • Quiala tested positive for the anabolic steroid Drostanolone, according to a news release.
    Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 22 June 2018
  • Benevento captain Fabio Lucioni was banned for one year for using an anabolic steroid.
    Afp, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Mullen’s heart was 64.7% over the upper limit of the range for someone of his age, fitness and build, the report says, and anabolic steroid use is associated with an enlarged heart and sudden cardiac death.
    Courtney Kube, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The distance runner Shelby Houlihan tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone, a drug that can increase muscle strength and red-blood-cell count.
    Matt Hart, The Atlantic, 30 July 2021
  • To do this, some athletes train harder, some train longer, and some have even resorted to cheating by taking synthetic hormones such as anabolic steroids.
    Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The supplement is an anabolic steroid precursor, meaning that the body converts it into testosterone.
    Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 26 May 2021
  • Police who arrived on the scene discovered anabolic steroids in Taylor’s bedroom.
    Jeff Miller, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
  • Another anabolic steroid in common usage in the 1970s, Deca-Durabolin causes users to build muscle quickly.
    Dallas News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Other athletes at the games were likely using anabolic steroids, but a reliable test for these drugs wasn’t introduced until 1976.
    Umair Irfan, Vox, 24 July 2018
  • How do testosterone or estrogen or other anabolic steroids solve this problem?
    Umair Irfan, Vox, 24 July 2018
  • The results can also be affected if by biotin (B7) supplements taken in the last eight hours, anabolic steroids or other steroidal medications taken in the last three to six months, or steroid creams used in the past week.
    Lindsay Modglin, Health, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The once-taboo topic of anabolic steroid use in the fitness and bodybuilding communities has become its own internet content genre.
    Jake Traylor, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The next day, one of Sandberg’s former teammates, Rafael Palmeiro, was suspended for testing positive for stanozolol, a powerful anabolic steroid.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Clase, who saw a sharp rise in velocity a year after the Rangers acquired him from San Diego, tested positive for Boldenone, an anabolic steroid used mainly in veterinary medicine.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 1 May 2020
  • Kerley was suspended by the league without pay on Nov. 6 after testing positive for Turinabol, an anabolic steroid.
    Dennis Waszak Jr., Houston Chronicle, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Shelby Houlihan, the American record-holder in the 1,500, was suspended for four years last month after testing positive for nandrolone, an anabolic steroid.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 July 2021
  • Testing for anabolic steroid use among baseball players was increased after high-profile cases like Barry Bonds’s.
    Art Markman, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Creatine has the most efficacy, which is well documented, but even the best supplements don’t give anabolic steroid-like effects.
    Oliver Lee Bateman, Men's Health, 19 May 2022
  • Shelby Houlihan, the American record-holder in the 1,500 meters, was suspended for four years last month after testing positive for nandrolone, an anabolic steroid.
    New York Times, 3 July 2021
  • In addition to the civil rights charges, Wenger is accused of conspiracy to distribute and possession of anabolic steroids in a second grand jury indictment.
    Taylor Romine, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Houlihan tested positive for an anabolic steroid, not marijuana, and she was suspended for four years.
    Rick Rouan, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
  • Gebo said that Bell had been using methamphetamines and anabolic steroids and grew paranoid, believing that the 1-year-old girl wasn’t actually his biological daughter, the affidavit states.
    Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • The most popular methods have included blood doping (via injections of the hormone EPO or blood transfusions) and taking anabolic steroids or human growth hormone.
    Grant Clark and Henry Meyer | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019

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