How to Use drug in a Sentence

drug

1 of 2 noun

• I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs.
• Have you ever taken any illegal drugs?
• The judges also upheld the FDA's approval of the generic version of the drug in 2019.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• His dark side really takes over in L.A., with all the drugs.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2023
• In one case, the drug may have been on the hands of a parent who prepared the baby’s bottle.
  — Olga R. Rodriguez, Fortune Well, 8 Sep. 2023
• A lot of drug stores and health-food stores carry pure aloe vera gel.
  — Cathy Wong, Verywell Health, 12 Apr. 2024
• Signs of the local drug trade are all around them and vacant houses line their streets.
  — Lea Skene, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
• The risk may be greater with higher doses and more frequent use of the drug, studies note.
  — Nicole Wetsman, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
• While the vehicle had not been involved in the hit-skip, the officer noted signs of drug use in the car.
  — cleveland, 26 Aug. 2023
• The drug is used to treat angina, a condition that causes severe pain in the chest.
  — Lawrence Yee, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
• Fill the shortage The weight loss drug market in China is expected to boom in the coming years.
  — Laura He, CNN, 6 June 2023
• And then getting in to see a neurologist who prescribes the drug can take months.
  — Tom Murphy, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
• Is this drug available in the United States either by prescription or over the counter?
  — Joe and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 12 June 2023
• But the suction cup stretches the cheek, creating a larger surface area for the drug to pass through.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
• And there are even more weight-loss drugs in clinical trials.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
• This offers patients answers to their many questions, such as: Is this drug safe for me?
  — Ashu Goel, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The new rules mean adults can possess small amounts for personal use but the drug remains banned for under 18s.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
• Inside the labyrinth of the upper floors, men sniffed a highly volatile liquid called butyl nitrite—poppers, as the type of drug is still known.
  — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• The drug can cause abdominal pain and is not approved in children younger than age 4.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 16 June 2023
• Najjar told us that he was forced to tell a patient with a face wound to go out to a local drug store to buy the supplies needed to stitch up the gash.
  — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• Taylor was also sentenced to 21 months in prison on federal firearm and drug charges.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• It was later learned that the same wrong drug had been used to execute an inmate in January 2015.
  — CBS News, 20 July 2023
• The most remarkable thing about the drugs is their ability to, in some cases, reverse late-stage cancers.
  — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
• Crushing tablets with an enteric coating can destroy it, causing the drug to break down in the stomach.
  — Health Editorial Team, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
• The agency allowed pharmacists to prescribe the drug instead of just doctors.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
• Some are also concerned about the ability of those patients to consent to the drug therapy.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• They have largely been replaced by drugs with fewer side effects.
  — Sonya Collins, Fortune Well, 4 Nov. 2023
• Are there some that actually work, and why is testing these kinds of drugs so challenging?
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
• What most Burners know — and what’s probably lost to the outside world amid the hyperbole of drug use and dusty dancing — is that the event is a major test of self-reliance.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2023
• However, three months later he was expelled for drug use.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2023

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drug

2 of 2 verb

• He looks like he's been drugged.
• Someone could have drugged your drink.
• Over the years, he had been gouged, slashed, stripped, beaten, drugged, dumped in the snow and shot at.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• The woman, 31-year-old Leah McGuirk, wrote in a Facebook post that she was drugged at the bar.
  — Lavendrick Smith, charlotteobserver, 14 June 2018
• In the spring of 2022, two men were drugged and robbed after leaving gay bars in New York.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2023
• The two drugged toughs get off with a warning and some pummeling.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2019
• Often, newcomers were drugged by their pimps to cope with the shame.
  — Choe Sang-Hun Jean Chung, New York Times, 2 May 2023
• Smart testified in 2009 that she was drugged, starved, tied to a tree and raped as often as four times a day.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2024
• We are drugged by nostalgia, even for things that weren’t very good to begin with.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• Then Fallon reveals that Swift's mom filmed her while she was drugged up postsurgery—and sent him the video.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 4 Oct. 2019
• For days, several men, all of them Hindu, drugged, starved, and gang-raped her.
  — Kai Schultz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2019
• The guests, two women from Kentucky, said they were drugged and raped while ashore on the island of Grand Bahama.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
• The glitzy film is based on the true story of New York exotic dancers who drugged and robbed their rich customers.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2020
• In one scene, a schoolgirl is drugged and raped after a party, and the film of her assault is used to blackmail her.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
• Bill Cosby faces a new lawsuit against him from a singer who claims that the comedian drugged and raped her in the late 1980s.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2023
• Huntsville police drug their feet in working with the committee.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 28 Apr. 2021
• Most tourists who enjoy these encounters don’t know that the adult tigers may be declawed, drugged, or both.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Their bodies have been cut, radiated, and drugged through ports and pills.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 22 Jan. 2020
• All pointed to the same two men — Michael Bjorkman and David Golden — as the ones who drugged and sometimes assaulted them.
  — Debra Kamin, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• The victim said her last memory of the night of the rape was being at a bar with Patterson and feeling as though she had been drugged.
  — Gal Tziperman Lotan, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 June 2018
• In 2019, women were allegedly drugged at a party at his home.
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2020
• Cyrus is a 20-something man shaking off years of drinking and drugging by spouting words.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• But the majority of respondents -- 41% -- didn't know what substances had been used to drug them.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Oct. 2019
• Adult tigers may be drugged or even declawed to make interaction safe.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2019
• In the season 3 finale, Love paralyses Joe by drugging him with aconite.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 12 Mar. 2023
• The search is on for a pair of femme fatales who drugged and then robbed a poker-playing tourist in Hollywood, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.
  — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• Their claims joined a 2014 blog post from a former graduate-school classmate of deGrasse Tyson's, who claimed he had drugged and raped her.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2019
• Bibbs, who was called Adam Doe, was a hitchhiker who had been drugged and murdered by Eyler, who targeted young boys and men.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 25 July 2023
• People who drug others use substances that are most readily available to them, Metz said.
  — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2024
• Eight men were accused last year of drugging and robbing roughly three dozen New York City bar and nightclub goers, leading to the deaths of at least seven people.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024