How to Use meth in a Sentence

meth

noun
  • Muthart said $5 worth of meth could last her for a day or more.
    Mike Ellis, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Hardy was high on meth and had passed out when the fire started.
    Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Her neighbors were cooking meth and had burned the place down.
    Candice Rainey, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2018
  • No meth addicts running the drive-thru; that was a strong start.
    Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026
  • But she was hooked on cocaine, next meth, then both, combined.
    Shane Buffaloe, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Billy explained that one of the meth-heads was white and one of them was black.
    Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
  • Mesquite trees for acacias, pronghorns for gazelles, meth heads for leopards.
    Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • During a search, police found the meth, as well as a scale and torch lighters.
    John Benson, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The best way to pay for cancer treatments is rarely cooking meth.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2017
  • The federal law that equates pot with meth is ridiculous on its face.
    Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 June 2017
  • Me, a former drunk and meth addict who could very well have rabies.
    David Sedaris, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The mother is charged with felony meth possession and gun theft.
    Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Aug. 2025
  • For the first time in months, no meth psychosis obstructed my view.
    Nick Dothée, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Her headaches persisted but the meth and opioids helped soothe the pain.
    oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2022
  • On the streets, users say, fentanyl is more expensive than meth.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • There’s babies that are being raised by meth addicts.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The small amount of fentanyl is much more potent than the dozens of pounds of meth, experts said.
    Nathan Luna, ABC News, 3 May 2022
  • The meth was found in a magnetic metal box attached to a bed frame.
    Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Well, the real story in the Iron Range about crime is meth.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Barr described the adverse effects of meth on the human body.
    Katelyn Keenehan, The Arizona Republic, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Which is why meth use is currently high, Mendelson added.
    Kevin Krause, Dallas Morning News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The Wa cook meth — and before meth was in vogue, the Wa churned out heroin.
    Patrick Winn, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Police stopped the car, and a drug-detecting dog sniffed out 40 pounds of meth.
    Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Since coming home, the most troubled of them had turned to painkillers, alcohol, and even meth.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • She was arrested with her drug dealer boyfriend and sentenced for the pound of meth and a firearm found with them.
    Mallory Simon and Sara Sidner, CNN, 2 June 2017
  • And each use of meth or crack is a dice roll with the irreplaceable faculties of the brain.
    Wilson M. Sims, Longreads, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Most of the people smoking fentanyl or meth on this city’s streets balled them up and tossed them onto the ground.
    Zusha Elinson, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2023
  • In total, the deputy and his K-9 found ten pounds of meth, distributed in ten bags.
    Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Agents seized over 211 pounds of meth, heroin, cocaine and fentanyl at the home.
    Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Ocejo mailed about 22 pounds of meth and more than 2 pounds of fentanyl, in total.
    Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026

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