How to Use coke in a Sentence

coke

noun

• The ‘60s: there’s pot and acid, and then there’s coke and heroin in the ‘70s in New York.
  — Henry Everingham, SPIN, 14 Feb. 2023
• Some of them may or may not involve doing coke on live TV.
  — Vulture, 8 May 2023
• Like having a coke isn’t really going to change your life.
  — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023
• The titular bear, inspired by a real-life bear, eats a bunch of cocaine after some coke dealers heave it from the sky, and goes on a rampage.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
• And then there are all those songs that are downright unpleasant, about child molesters or coke dealers or abusive partners.
  — Chelsea Leu, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2022
• Throw on your purple sweatshirts, snort some coke, make some questionable choices, and rejoice!
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2022
• All of the pollutants are byproducts from the manufacturing of high-carbon coke used to fuel blast furnaces at steel mills.
  — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• An engineer may have to build in a settling time or change the rate of a flow to account for foam formation (consider the difference between pulling a beer and pouring a coke).
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
• Months later, the company idled its coke ovens because of major equipment problems.
  — Max Blau, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2023
• But the coke contained fentanyl, and Christina died shortly after ingesting it.
  — Alexandra Rockey Fleming, PEOPLE.com, 6 Apr. 2022
• Robbie, in the closest the movie has to an anchoring central performance, cranks the Eliza-Dolittle-on-coke brashness to 11, making her Harley Quinn look like a study in subtlety.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 23 Dec. 2022
• At the plant, coal was baked in superheated, low-oxygen coke ovens to remove impurities from the coal to produce fuel for blast furnaces.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 14 July 2023
• Like, wow, this bear — which, in real life, ended up dead after eating all this coke — ended up being sort of collateral damage in this war on drugs.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2023
• Today, fierce fighting around the eastern city of Avdiivka has forced Europe’s largest coke plant, another of Mr. Akhmetov’s properties, to shut.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• Further south, Russian attention has been focused for months on the town of Avdiivka, and its massive coke plant, both of which Russia has been attempting to encircle.
  — Maria Kostenko and Alex Stambaugh, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
• Other drinks have flavor profiles that recall espresso martinis, rum and cokes or gin martinis.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
• When tragedy strikes, the men receive unexpected second chances — and a magical briefcase of never-ending coke — thanks to a woman who looks vaguely familiar.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2023
• Goncalves said the company is also making changes to be more environmentally friendly, using less coke in the steel making process and increasing its use of scrap metal.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 11 Feb. 2022
• Resplendently fuzzed, a white shirt framing his chest hair, a kilo of coke (probably) up his nose, Peters appears after Gary starts a water bed company.
  — New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021
• The Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed changes to the way toxic air pollution is controlled at coke plants.
  — Max Blau, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2023
• Then, researchers tested various mutations that strengthened the enzyme’s weak points while retaining its coke-busting properties.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2014
• Former company towns and other neighborhoods closest to the still-functioning coke plants and other large industrial facilities still show evidence of decades of heavy industry.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 1 Dec. 2021
• In the past few decades, kiddie cartoon purveyors like DreamWorks and Illumination have attempted to bridge the gap by serving up cuddly characters spewing pop culture reference-laden dialogue, penned by Wesleyan grads with a minor coke problem.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2023
• No wonder, then, that Kendall chooses to distract himself with congratulatory tweets and his 15 minutes of grudging goodwill from outside observers, temporarily replacing his coke highs with dopamine rushes of social-media sanctimony.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2021
• Previous targets included landfills, toxic dumps and hazardous waste incinerators scattered around Lake Calumet, companies that stored huge piles of lung-damaging petroleum coke on the Calumet River and others that handle brain-damaging manganese.
  — Michael Hawthorne, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2021
• The ‘60s: there’s pot and acid, and then there’s coke and heroin in the ‘70s in New York.
  — Henry Everingham, SPIN, 14 Feb. 2023
• Some of them may or may not involve doing coke on live TV.
  — Vulture, 8 May 2023
• Like having a coke isn’t really going to change your life.
  — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023
• The titular bear, inspired by a real-life bear, eats a bunch of cocaine after some coke dealers heave it from the sky, and goes on a rampage.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
• And then there are all those songs that are downright unpleasant, about child molesters or coke dealers or abusive partners.
  — Chelsea Leu, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024