How to Use gateway drug in a Sentence

gateway drug

noun

• For some, the rental e-bikes from Jump and Baywheels served as a gateway drug.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 11 Jan. 2020
• In the age of the hypebeast, shoes are like the gateway drug for resellers.
  — Saira Mueller, Wired, 16 Nov. 2021
• The ban stemmed from a fear that pinball was somehow a gateway drug to a life of crime.
  — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 19 June 2018
• Any one of Carlotto's novels is like a gateway drug to the rest.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 7 June 2021
• The tender white fish is like a gateway drug to cooking with other types of fish.
  — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 18 Sep. 2018
• But in the movie, that act is merely a gateway drug to the full-on loopiness that follows.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 13 July 2018
• Lewis’s Narnia was my gateway drug to The Lord of the Rings, which was to become an obsession.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• Ah yes, the gateway drug video that seduced me into the world of Siwanators (as fans are known).
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2021
• Chris Christie on Morning Joe is calling pot a gateway drug again.
  — The Tylt, cleveland.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• As such, the show can be a gateway drug for newbies who don’t know much about Star Wars but can get caught up in the Wild-West version of its world.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 25 Aug. 2019
• The mixed reality glasses will be the gateway drug to the future.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 June 2022
• With a slushbox, these tiny titans of performance can serve as a sort of gateway drug to sports cars.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 21 Sep. 2022
• Her gateway drug to abandonment is, as is often the case, a business trip.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022
• Prior work by Pierce and his team have found e-cigarettes can function as a gateway drug for many teens.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
• YouTube says the company is finding more and more creators who are lured in by Shorts and use it as a gateway drug to longer videos (and the ad revenue that comes with it).
  — Richard Nieva, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• In the same way Docs are a gateway drug into style, so Rick has become an entry point into fashion.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2021
• If weed is indeed a gateway drug, Waking Life is something like a gateway film.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
• Like a lot of people, Metallica was a gateway drug into heavy music for me.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 4 Mar. 2022
• The same goes for olive oil, at once a simple grocery store purchase and a gateway drug into complete culinary nerd-dom.
  — Brette Warshaw, GQ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Of course, as everyone knows, holiday cookies are a gateway drug to love.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 23 Nov. 2022
• The Pull Chop, with its ease of use and even easier cleanup, was my gateway drug to regular vegetable consumption as an adult.
  — Beejoli Shah, Bon Appetit, 12 July 2017
• The tension over how to operate a legal market for a substance once reviled as a gateway drug to heroin is not new.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
• Congress’s gateway drug to spending is back, and Members are already on their way to mainlining.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 June 2021
• But the argument for prohibition makes even less sense if Juul serves as a gateway drug and gets kids hooked on nicotine.
  — James P. Sutton, National Review, 4 July 2019
• Pets are the gateway drug to making a lasting commitment, never forget that.
  — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 17 Oct. 2017
• MuchMusic was my gateway drug into the highs and lows of Canadian media.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 9 July 2020
• Pornography is a gateway drug to orgies with strippers!
  — Anonymous, Redbook, 17 Jan. 2018
• Now new research suggests that cannabis may not be a gateway drug to creativity after all.
  — Richard Sima, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
• By the 1990s, Dungeons & Dragons had become wrapped up in the Satanic Panic — railed against by the religious right and seen to be a gateway drug of sorts into occultism.
  — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2022
• Cannabis only drew connotations of nickel and dime bags, and as a gateway drug that would eventually lead you down a dark path.
  — Siraad Dirshe, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024