How to Use coca in a Sentence

coca

noun

• The drug comes from the leaf of the coca plant, which is harvested and processed in the country.
  — Johnny Harris, Vox, 18 Dec. 2018
• The two younger children, a boy and girl, showed lower levels of coca use.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 29 June 2018
• Its raw form, the coca leaf, has been chewed and ingested for thousands of years.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 May 2017
• Mario Tellez travelled by boat for three hours, to attend the coca growers protest.
  — Manuel Rueda, miamiherald, 27 Oct. 2017
• By analogy, many people might be able to chew coca leaves from time to time.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• Lime from the shells activates the coca, giving a mellow high.
  — Anika Fajardo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
• The jump in coca production brought pressure from the United States.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2018
• Its fields, chopped from the forest over the past few decades, produced plentiful coca.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2019
• At the threshold of the frame, people had left coca leaves and plastic cups of red wine as offerings to Incan gods.
  — Gabriel Urza, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• The reserve was created last year after a two-decade campaign, but is now marred by coca fields and two airstrips.
  — Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
• The government has made a small dent in reducing coca crops, but fields of the plant used to make cocaine still cover wide swaths of the country.
  — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• But as an intoxicant, coca leaf packs no more punch than a strong cup of coffee.
  — Cecil Adams, Chicago Reader, 11 May 2018
• My sin is being indigenous, a union leader and a coca farmer.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• In the early 1900s, the soft-drink company replaced it with an extract of the coca leaves -- sans stimulant.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 May 2017
• Many people are dairy farmers; some grow or pick coca, the base product in cocaine, one of the few profitable crops in the remote region.
  — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2021
• Convincing farmers to stop growing coca has been one of Colombia’s largest problems for the last fifty years.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
• Duque, meanwhile, has pledged to redouble efforts to combat a record surge of coca - the building bloc of cocaine.
  — Anthony Faiola, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2018
• The region's dense cloud forests favor the cultivation of coca leaves, a by-product of cocaine.
  — Neil Giardino, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2021
• The Toronto La Crosse Club, while hosting the world championships, decided to use coca in all their matches.
  — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
• The area, known as Catatumbo, is rife with coca fields, contraband routes and several armed groups.
  — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 19 June 2017
• Getting farmers to stop growing so much coca may be a bigger challenge.
  — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 8 May 2017
• And even as the FARC did give up major drug trafficking routes, the country’s coca crops have exploded as other actors have moved in.
  — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 10 Apr. 2018
• The hotel's welcome drink is a cup of tea made with coca leaves, the local remedy for altitude sickness.
  — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 17 Feb. 2015
• Indigenous groups living in the Andes have consumed coca for hundreds of years.
  — National Geographic, 26 June 2018
• The men sat separately, chewing coca leaves, and had vacant stares.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2018
• The coca surge comes as the number of new cocaine users and overdose deaths continues to rise dramatically in the United States.
  — Washington Post, 26 June 2018
• In 2019, Solnit pulled off a rare tour of one of the rose factories that were supposed to supplant coca production in Bogotá, Colombia.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• Coca-Cola contained coca leaf extract – cocaine, more or less – for the first 20 years of its history.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2017
• Many layers of sweetness emerge, including flat coca cola, sugared black tea as well as fruit like mangoes On the herbal side there’s aloe vera and green tea.
  — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• Lopez offered a plastic bag of coca leaves, a common remedy against hypoxia.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024