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Examples of khat in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The crops that painted the 12-hour-long drive from Addis to Harar — teff, sorghum and coffee — were now replaced by a green blanket of khat, an ancient stimulant now turned into the most lucrative cash crop. — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2022 Cathinone’s occurrence in khat plants, however, does raise one intriguing question: Could these plants contain hidden fungal partners that are actually the engineers behind the compounds? — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 27 May 2021 His attorneys describe him as a family man and hard worker with no criminal record who was never caught with any khat. — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 4 Dec. 2020 In the center of Hargeisa, in a plaza where men while away hours drinking earthy camel milk tea and chewing thick bundles of khat, a local narcotic, and taxis idle waiting for customers, stands an old Somali fighter plane mounted on a tall pedestal. — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2020 In Hargeisa, men gather in informal street-side cafes to drink camel-milk tea and chew khat, a local leafy plant that is a mild narcotic. — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2020 Men with no jobs and no purpose loiter in the market chewing khat leaves to escape their dreary existence. — Alan Gratz, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020 The khat is imported by truck from Harar in Ethiopia. — Jillian Keenan, Time, 20 Aug. 2019 Even the market selling khat, a mild stimulant used by most Yemenis, had fallen quiet. — New York Times, 16 June 2018 See More

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