How to Use pothead in a Sentence

pothead

noun

• During halftime those ramps would be, er, loaded with potheads.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 12 July 2019
• As if Sourland was a fortress and not a patchwork of trees, fields, and potheads tripping on botany.
  — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
• Most people see the humor in it, and the way the woozy sonic touches play into the exploits of a pothead.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2023
• That doesn’t mean toking up in front of them — from both the parenting and pothead perspectives, there are reasons that might be a bad idea.
  — Robin Abrahams, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2018
• He was suspended for nearly three seasons and became a national punchline as the pothead who threw away his career.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
• But really, the best way to destroy the stereotypical image of a pothead is to replace it with an image that looks more like you and me.
  — Genetta M. Adams, The Root, 11 Dec. 2017
• For better or worse, Kevin Smith is known today as one of Hollywood’s most prominent potheads.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
• The character begins as a rock music-loving pothead who isn't too interested in what's going on with his family.
  — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
• Since then, MacGyver-ish tobacco smokers and potheads have done extensive research on secret spots to light up in the park.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• These women aren't potheads looking for a quick high, but professionals who want a unique, upscale, communal experience.
  — Alix Strauss, Marie Claire, 20 Apr. 2017
• Greer seethes after her pothead parents don’t fill out her Yale financial-aid form correctly, thus consigning her to non-Ivy exile.
  — Clare McHugh, Time, 5 Apr. 2018
• When not cruising the web with a cap on and shadows hiding his face, Frankie hangs out with macho, aimless potheads in and around the Coney Island boardwalk.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2017
• There is an internet urban legend that North Korea is a pothead paradise and maybe even the next Amsterdam of pot tourism.
  — Eric Talmadge, The Seattle Times, 13 June 2017
• My tenure as a podhead has sustained and outlasted two pregnancies, two career shifts, and a recent foray into being a pothead (edibles, to help me sleep).
  — Lauren Mechling, Vogue, 27 May 2019
• Studies in rats tend to use much higher doses of THC than even a committed pothead would absorb, and rodent adolescence is just a couple of weeks long—nothing like ours.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
• Smart-girl Greer Kadetsky got into Yale, but has been relegated to a lowly state school when her pothead parents neglect to return a crucial financial aid form.
  — Patty Rhule, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2018
• The redemption concerns a feckless pothead (Miles Teller) whose pregnant girlfriend has left him because of his indigence and dissolution.
  — Andy Webster, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• Harris Dickinson stars as Frankie, who ambles around the beaches of Coney Island, hanging out with potheads and pickpockets, looking for a hookup and a greater purpose.
  — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2017
• To determine whether that record is precise enough to calculate how much Maryjane someone has smoked, the German chemists took hair samples from 12 male potheads and 10 of their straightedge peers.
  — Aaron Rowe, WIRED, 18 July 2007
• The potheads at the bottom of the corporate ladder start screwing things up for everybody, while upper management (Tony Goldwyn, abetted by some twisted minions) takes the homicidal initiative.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
• But this Friday he will be joined by tokers, potheads and dope fiends across the nation (especially folks in Denver) celebrating another 4/20 — the pot holiday with hazy origins that seems to get more popular every year.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2018
• That distinction in entertainment is an important one, given that pop culture’s first significant introduction to the drug was the 1936 antipot propaganda film Reefer Madness, which literally depicted potheads as murderers and mental patients.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 19 Sep. 2017