How to Use gateway drug in a Sentence
gateway drug
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For some, the rental e-bikes from Jump and Baywheels served as a gateway drug.
—Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 11 Jan. 2020
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In the age of the hypebeast, shoes are like the gateway drug for resellers.
—Saira Mueller, Wired, 16 Nov. 2021
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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
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Any one of Carlotto's novels is like a gateway drug to the rest.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 7 June 2021
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The tender white fish is like a gateway drug to cooking with other types of fish.
—Audrey Bruno, SELF, 18 Sep. 2018
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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
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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
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Ah yes, the gateway drug video that seduced me into the world of Siwanators (as fans are known).
—Jenny Singer, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2021
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So the Stones were my gateway drug to all these incredible things.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
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Chris Christie on Morning Joe is calling pot a gateway drug again.
—The Tylt, cleveland.com, 31 Oct. 2017
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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
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The mixed reality glasses will be the gateway drug to the future.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 7 June 2022
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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
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Her gateway drug to abandonment is, as is often the case, a business trip.
—Amanda Hess, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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If weed is indeed a gateway drug, Waking Life is something like a gateway film.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
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Like a lot of people, Metallica was a gateway drug into heavy music for me.
—Liza Lentini, SPIN, 4 Mar. 2022
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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
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Of course, as everyone knows, holiday cookies are a gateway drug to love.
—Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 23 Nov. 2022
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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
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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
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Congress’s gateway drug to spending is back, and Members are already on their way to mainlining.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 June 2021
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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
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Pets are the gateway drug to making a lasting commitment, never forget that.
—Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 17 Oct. 2017
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MuchMusic was my gateway drug into the highs and lows of Canadian media.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 9 July 2020
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Pornography is a gateway drug to orgies with strippers!
—Anonymous, Redbook, 17 Jan. 2018
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Now new research suggests that cannabis may not be a gateway drug to creativity after all.
—Richard Sima, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
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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
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