How to Use addict in a Sentence
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And these guys have all gone over the top — heroin addicts, on and on and on and on.
— Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Apr. 2023 -
Cowell was adamant that AGT addicts haven’t seen the last of the crooner.
— Lars Brandle, Billboard, 14 Sep. 2023 -
In the building next door, addicts shot up in a stairwell.
— Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023 -
She’s been both a drug addict and a star track athlete.
— Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 26 July 2022 -
Griner is a drug addict and should have served her 9-year sentence.
— Chicago Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022 -
There were also addicts and artists and addict artists.
— Nicolaia Rips, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2023 -
At the beginning of the flick, Michael is pretty much on his own — his dad passed away and his mom is a drug addict.
— Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 22 Nov. 2022 -
On the other side of the ball is an addict who is seriously ill.
— Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023 -
Her oldest son is a drug addict and bounces between the streets and friends’ homes, and shows up every now and then, too.
— Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023 -
Earlier in her life, Rocha was an addict and living on the streets.
— Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023 -
Biggalo told David that Lauren was an addict and asked for $500 to buy enough meth to wean her off the drug.
— Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022 -
The character is an addict, running the drug game inside the prison, and there’s so much pain in the character.
— Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2022 -
The town — which has drawn addicts and the homeless from other states — has too few detox and drug treatment centers.
— Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023 -
My dream would be to play a homeless [person] or a drug addict, someone with a lot of issues.
— K.j. Yossman, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023 -
The roof was off-limits for many, because that was where drug addicts shot up and passed out, residents said.
— Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023 -
The record company wanted Scott back, drug addict or not.
— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2022 -
So often, people turn the other cheek and pay them no mind or assume addicts are too far gone.
— Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024 -
At one point, Joey gives her mother $800 of her loan disbursement to bail her sister, a drug addict with a young son, out of jail.
— Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022 -
The patient, also an addict, admitted that, for him, reading the book may have done more harm than good.
— Jamieson Webster, Washington Post, 11 May 2023 -
Despite his success as an artist, Debora was still a drug addict and still in a gang.
— Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024 -
Make no mistake, Charlie and Bill are addicts, but the addiction is mostly played for laughs and charm.
— Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023 -
John Wells would be the first to acknowledge the difficulties of living with an addict.
— Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2023 -
That heroin addict once found unconscious in his car with a syringe in his arm, now sober and married, with twins.
— Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023 -
And after an addict died testing another batch of fentanyl, one of the suspects sent the batch to the United States anyway.
— Devlin Barrett and Nick Miroff, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2023 -
Is Armand a devoted lover keeping his addict boyfriend on a healthy path?
— Darren Franich, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2022 -
The reaching out to save oneself is also a kind of ritual — one that some addicts would say God built into us.
— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023 -
His own son, Pedro, becomes a drug addict and then, as a dealer known as Dom, one of the most wanted criminals in Brazil.
— Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2023 -
You shouldn’t be excited when someone’s stealing or going to jail or an addict starts to drink again.
— Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023 -
Through Michaela, a recovering addict who has lived a hard life, the audience learns that their childhood was scarred by parental loss, abuse and the oppressive power of the church in their lives.
— Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2024 -
Inside was a white powder, which Smith, a recovering addict, believed to be cocaine.
— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
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Jones said the mothers of both of these children were addicted to drugs.
— Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2019 -
By the ninth grade, Phillip Fuhrman was already addicted to Juul, as were many of his friends.
— Wired, 9 Sep. 2019 -
Also two months in, three months in, there was a reason I was addicted, right?
— Recode Staff, Recode, 18 July 2018 -
That said, being addicted to alcohol and wanting to drink less aren't the same thing, and the two shouldn't be held in the same regard.
— Cory Stieg, refinery29.com, 5 July 2019 -
The woman said the man had been addicted to pills in the past and had served prison time related to his addiction.
— Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 23 Apr. 2020 -
The chorizo wrap is filled with high-quality meat and cheese that’s almost addicting to eat, and the black beans are a nice touch.
— Alex Darus, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2019 -
The shootings occurred while Ochoa was high on crack cocaine, a drug he’d been addicted to for years.
— Imelda García, Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2020 -
At the time, Biden, who had been addicted to crack cocaine, was struggling to remain sober.
— Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2023 -
The rats are multiplying because our city is addicted to putting trash out in bags on the street.
— Curbed, 21 Aug. 2023 -
Five million kids in the U.S. are now addicted to e-cigarettes.
— Christopher Magan, Twin Cities, 9 Nov. 2019 -
Miranda, by then, was moved out of the little cape and the rumor about town was that she was addicted to drugs and living in Newark, under the bridge.
— Lisa Taddeo, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020 -
The enormous amount of nicotine in e-cigarettes — up 76% over five years — can addict kids in a matter of days, Koval said.
— Liz Szabo | Kff Health News, NBC News, 21 June 2023 -
The closure of the Parkview and other homes comes as more than 5,000 people — many mentally ill and drug addicted — sleep on the streets every night.
— Trisha Thadani, SFChronicle.com, 10 Feb. 2020 -
The younger Biden was charged last week with three felony gun charges tied to owning a firearm while using or being addicted to narcotics.
— Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2023 -
Our testers are addicted and stressed that it’s constantly sold out.
— Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 13 Nov. 2023 -
In 1996, his brothers rolled out Oxycontin, the pill that swallowed the suburbs whole, addicting the sons and daughters of cops and lawyers.
— Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023 -
And more needs to be done to prevent Americans from becoming addicted in the first place.
— Sabrina Eaton, cleveland.com, 4 Sep. 2019 -
Dostoyevsky was as addicted as anyone to the crime stories flooding the papers.
— Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023 -
Their patients, all men, aged 19 to 37, had been addicted to heroin for an average of nine years.
— Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023 -
The self-awareness that smartphones are bad for us, and that tech companies are evil for addicting us to their apps, is proof of sanity.
— Catherine Leclair, Wired, 26 Feb. 2020 -
Trinkets follows a group of girls who are addicted to shoplifting.
— Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 17 June 2019 -
Get ready for films about Mario Kart addicts who leave their consoles, grow mustaches, and train to become small Italianate plumbers.
— Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023 -
Teens around the country, many of whom would never touch a cigarette, are already addicted to the device.
— Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 15 Nov. 2018 -
Imani alleged that he is now addicted to nicotine, and had seizures as a result of using the e-cigarettes.
— oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2019 -
As a person addicted to meth for 11 years, my poor choices led to extreme paranoia.
— Ed Kressy, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023 -
There are people who are addicted, in desperate need of treatment, who are stuck in prisons and jails.
— The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2019 -
All these drugs were coming into New York City from abroad; thousands were addicted.
— Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023 -
And there are few treatment options for teens addicted to nicotine.
— Author: Moriah Balingit, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2019 -
And he is charged with knowingly possessing the revolver despite the restrictions against people addicted to drugs owning firearms.
— Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024 -
And if people got addicted to figuring things out for themselves, they’d be inoculated against having to take the word of whatever bullies happened to be in power.
— Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
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