How to Use spliff in a Sentence

spliff

noun
  • What’s worse, lighting up a spliff or stealing the nuclear codes?
    Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
  • But the stuff about cops at the stadium rounding up every hippie with a spliff?
    oregonlive, 11 June 2020
  • And as in past, his collection left at least one observer willing him to cut loose, smoke a spliff or go on a tear.
    Guy Trebay, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2016
  • Finicky treatments make psychedelics trickier to scale than cannabis, which can be self-administered in spliffs, cakes and other forms.
    The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Later, a spliff-smoking Rasta bicyclist rides by, hears calls for help, and blows a huge hit of smoke into the air holes.
    Ed Symkus, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2018
  • Indeed, even the most ardent spliff-and-lift advocates admit that the practice isn’t for everyone.
    Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2018
  • Nothing beats a spliff coupled with a spiritual podcast on the way back to my hotel room, because the buzz is so strong after playing.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Those whose roots-music love runs deeper, meanwhile, soaked up a full day’s worth of sun and sucked in a seemingly endless spliff’s worth of Americana.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 10 July 2022
  • Also, there was confusion over whether the tweet was a joke, since April 20 is known as Weed Day, a time to fire up a fat spliff.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Kelela rejoices over physical touch, a cool breeze that keeps blowing out the spliff, and a general sensation of weightlessness.
    Lawrence Burney, Pitchfork, 16 July 2026
  • On one occasion Tom Junior and his friends were smoking a spliff in the sitting room while Meghan was in the nursery crying.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
  • One popular clip on social media shows Jean zestfully hitting a spliff in the company of the headmaster’s delinquent son.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • Thirty grams of marijuana is about an ounce, which is essentially enough pot for 60 joints, or spliffs, and about half as many blunts, depending on how much is rolled into the tobacco paper.
    Gregory Pratt, chicagotribune.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • And, oh yeah, there’s also lots and lots of weed — joints are rolled and lit up, and in one particularly impressive scene, Strings rips through a guitar solo while contentedly puffing away at his spliff.
    Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Coffee house menus in Amsterdam are dominated by what Americans call spliffs, or joints rolled with marijuana and tobacco.
    Dan Adams, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2019
  • In a section about smoking a spliff on the balcony, a friend’s pointed question about Pico’s ex turns into a far-out conversation about extraterrestrials, as though the poem were getting stoned as well.
    Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Ruff Ryders guys roll spliffs in the green room while blog-era streetwear figures mingle with New York rap veterans, all as Jazzy Jeff soundtracks the night from the DJ booth.
    Jeff Ihaza, VIBE.com, 2 June 2026
  • In an early scene, Theresa (Dunst) prepares a spliff for her bedridden mother (Susan Traylor) that’s laced with a couple of drops of a mysterious substance that will put her out of her misery.
    Boyd Van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Nevermind that Musk was careful to note, post-spliff, that marijuana is lousy for productivity, and that nothing, nothing, nothing matters more to Elon Musk than productivity.
    Devin Gordon, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2019
  • So Vicky goes to techno with Kevin and Angela, splits a spliff on the fire escape with Jen, buys a zhizha of a mansion and a luxury car and a set of fancy silverware, ideates urn campaigns, replies to emails, writes presentation decks.
    Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Elon Musk has long been considered cannabis-friendly for his many 420 jokes (the number is slang for marijuana) and for famously being videotaped during a podcast while smoking a mix of marijuana and tobacco, known as a spliff.
    Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023

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