How to Use overdose in a Sentence

overdose

1 of 2 noun

• She died from a cocaine overdose.
• See where these kids go to talk about loss to an overdose.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
• That was the day he was found dead from a cocaine overdose last year.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
• Their sons died from drug overdoses.
  — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
• This lowers the risk of overdose.
  — Rachel French, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
• But, one day his stepdad came in and told me his son passed away from an overdose.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
• The overdose left Odom in a days-long coma.
  — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2026
• Finally, he was told the young man died from a drug overdose.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
• More new moms die from suicide or overdose than anything else.
  — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• Then, the pills kick in and Bear overdoses.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
• Police have not confirmed that their deaths were due to a drug overdose.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
• The overdose sent him to the hospital for days.
  — Angela Hart, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
• Drug overdose deaths reached a record level in the US this spring.
  — Mark Morales, CNN, 20 Sep. 2023
• The principal culprit has been a surge in deaths by drug overdose.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2025
• And that’s just the cost to put out the immediate fire — the overdose.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• My stepson passed away from a drug overdose in 2019.
  — Renée Onque, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2026
• The mayor’s office has said that three of the deaths were drug overdoses.
  — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2026
• What if a grandmother had a heart attack or a kid drowned while his team was on an overdose call?
  — Lauren Peace, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• Amongst the five boroughs, the highest-rate of overdose deaths were in the Bronx.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
• Hoffman died in 2014 of a drug overdose.
  — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
• The birth mother died of a drug overdose shortly thereafter.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026
• He is believed to have suffered an overdose while livestreaming.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 15 Apr. 2026
• McLaury died hours later from a drug overdose.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 8 Apr. 2026
• Naloxone nasal spray for opioid overdose.
  — Tushara Surapaneni, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
• The cause of death was an accidental drug overdose.
  — Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
• The cause of death was later found to be an accidental drug overdose.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
• Police at the time said her death may have been the result of a medical episode or an overdose.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2026
• Some minerals and vitamins can build up in your blood over time and raise your risk of an overdose.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 28 Sep. 2023
• Her mother later died of an overdose, and her father has been charged with murder.
  — Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2026
• The official cause of death was determined to be a drug overdose.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026

overdose

2 of 2 verb

• Police added that the child put the bag in her mouth and overdosed.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 9 May 2023
• Read the label and don't overdose, which can leave residue in the fibers.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2026
• Two years ago, Adam saved the life of a young man who had overdosed.
  — Craig Lemoult, NPR, 20 July 2026
• Not once, in the dozen times she’s been called, has the person overdosing died on her watch.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
• About an hour before Parsons called it a day, a man overdosed.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
• On her day off, Harriet sees two teenagers who have overdosed in a locked city park.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
• Trina had overdosed and hit her head, or been beaten by her boyfriend (not for the first time), or maybe both.
  — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
• About three weeks later — back from holiday break — the girl overdosed again.
  — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Illicit fentanyl has pushed drug-overdose deaths to new records.
  — Jon Kamp, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2022
• The real animal overdosed and died – not so much in the movie version.
  — Brian Truitt, The Courier-Journal, 24 Feb. 2023
• Not long after, LeBeouf got a call that her mother had overdosed.
  — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
• The voice on the other end said Marshall had overdosed and been found face down in a puddle.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• Put the person overdosing on their side with their top leg and arm crossed over the body to prevent choking.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
• One of the girls flagged down nearby police, telling them Gorman had overdosed.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 6 Feb. 2024
• That same night, according to the film, Gregg overdosed on heroin.
  — Steve Bloom, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2026
• Hamilton overdosed that night and died in the hospital on May 8.
  — Harm Venhuizen, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
• The city is on track to record nearly as many overdose deaths as last year, when at least 625 people died.
  — Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Dec. 2022
• For everyone else, the week is a chance to overdose on some seriously cute ponies.
  — Tim Neville, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2022
• Start rescue breathing if the breathing of the person overdosing is slow or has stopped.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
• One who overdosed in a Walmart parking lot gave a home address that didn’t exist.
  — Geoff Mulvihill and Carla K. Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2023
• Huberman tells me about friends from the skateboarding world who overdosed and others who went to jail.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 28 June 2023
• When someone overdoses from fentanyl, breathing slows and their skin often turns a bluish hue.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• Its walls are adorned with posters celebrating Pride month and photos of artists who overdosed.
  — Maya Henry, Oklahoma Watch, 30 June 2026
• These are overdose deaths due to lethal levels of fentanyl, methamphetamines, and synthetic drugs that make their way through the prison.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• Pods were created for ease of use and to prevent overdosing thanks to pre-measurement.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
• Inspection reports show one resident overdosed twice within four days, fell and broke an arm.
  — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
• The woman who overdosed said that Anderson would pick her up from the hospital.
  — Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 29 Apr. 2026
• When the predictions turned out to be right − Rue fatally overdosed − winners took home some cash.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 14 June 2026
• Akira overdosed twice on pills allegedly sold to her by John and Roy, the court docs stated.
  — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025
• For naloxone to work, someone has to be there to administer it to the person who is overdosing.
  — Ryan Hampton, Time, 15 Aug. 2023