How to Use coca in a Sentence

coca

noun

• The palate shows notes of cassis, coca nib and black cherry.
  — Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• By analogy, many people might be able to chew coca leaves from time to time.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• The two younger children, a boy and girl, showed lower levels of coca use.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 29 June 2018
• Its raw form, the coca leaf, has been chewed and ingested for thousands of years.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 May 2017
• But as an intoxicant, coca leaf packs no more punch than a strong cup of coffee.
  — Cecil Adams, Chicago Reader, 11 May 2018
• My sin is being indigenous, a union leader and a coca farmer.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• The drug comes from the leaf of the coca plant, which is harvested and processed in the country.
  — Johnny Harris, Vox, 18 Dec. 2018
• Mario Tellez travelled by boat for three hours, to attend the coca growers protest.
  — Manuel Rueda, miamiherald, 27 Oct. 2017
• Lime from the shells activates the coca, giving a mellow high.
  — Anika Fajardo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
• Getting farmers to stop growing so much coca may be a bigger challenge.
  — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 8 May 2017
• The reserve was created last year after a two-decade campaign, but is now marred by coca fields and two airstrips.
  — Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
• The men sat separately, chewing coca leaves, and had vacant stares.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2018
• The jump in coca production brought pressure from the United States.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2018
• At the threshold of the frame, people had left coca leaves and plastic cups of red wine as offerings to Incan gods.
  — Gabriel Urza, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• Duque, meanwhile, has pledged to redouble efforts to combat a record surge of coca - the building bloc of cocaine.
  — Anthony Faiola, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2018
• The region's dense cloud forests favor the cultivation of coca leaves, a by-product of cocaine.
  — Neil Giardino, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2021
• Convincing farmers to stop growing coca has been one of Colombia’s largest problems for the last fifty years.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
• In Trim’s thick Geechee accent (coca-nut wataa), the words come alive and escape the contours of the waveform.
  — Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 11 May 2026
• Many people are dairy farmers; some grow or pick coca, the base product in cocaine, one of the few profitable crops in the remote region.
  — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2021
• The government has made a small dent in reducing coca crops, but fields of the plant used to make cocaine still cover wide swaths of the country.
  — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• The hotel's welcome drink is a cup of tea made with coca leaves, the local remedy for altitude sickness.
  — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 17 Feb. 2015
• The area, known as Catatumbo, is rife with coca fields, contraband routes and several armed groups.
  — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 19 June 2017
• Indigenous groups living in the Andes have consumed coca for hundreds of years.
  — National Geographic, 26 June 2018
• The new courts have not begun work, coca production is still soaring and many rural towns do not have a single police officer.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2018
• Petro also urged the rebels to back efforts to replace coca crops in the northeastern Catatumbo region.
  — ABC News, 15 Feb. 2026
• Bolivia is the world's third largest coca producer after Colombia and Peru.
  — Carlos Valdez, Star Tribune, 29 July 2020
• The product is low sugar, gluten and dairy free and comes in a coca and carob powdered formulation that is perfect for mixing into smoothies and creamy hot drinks.
  — Bridget Arsenault, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
• Colombian drug cartels used coca plants to produce cocaine in the South American jungle.
  — Damian Paletta, The Seattle Times, 11 Feb. 2018
• Coca-Cola contained coca leaf extract – cocaine, more or less – for the first 20 years of its history.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2017
• In the early 1900s, the soft-drink company replaced it with an extract of the coca leaves -- sans stimulant.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 May 2017