How to use addict in a sentence

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• After years of wild partying, Joe hit bottom and became a homeless drug addict.From the entry hit bottom
• She used to be a drug addict.From the entry drug
• That drug dealer's heroin really gets the addicts off.From the entry get off
• Administering Narcan has nothing to do with getting an addict clean and sober.2012, Peter L. Beilenson, Patrick A. McGuire, Tapping into The Wire, JHU Press, →ISBN. From the entry Narcan
• Urinalysis fails to identify 10% of coabuse of benzodiazepines in opiate addicts.2012, Cynthia C. Chernecky, Barbara J. Berger, Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures - E-Book, page 190. From the entry coabuse
• The cycle came full circle with me when I became a wife-beating drug addict, too.2010, David Parnell, Amy Hagberg, Facing the Dragon. From the entry wife-beating
• I don't want people to think that I was a drug addict.2007 January 25, “The White Rapper Show: G-Child | Rappers Talk Hip Hop Beef...”, in HipHopDX. From the entry sizzurp
• I’m not an addict or nothing, and I steer clear of crack and that.2002, Hugh Mackay, Winter Close, Sydney: Hodder Headline, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry e
• Wild beasts, addicts, and Orientals are alike feared as antihumans, negations of humans.2002, Keith McMahon, The Fall of the God of Money, page 190. From the entry antihuman
• Knee-deep in drunks and drug addicts, it was called “Fantasy Island” by the cops.1989, Kathy Lette, Girls′ Night Out, page 107. From the entry derro
• The addict becomes addicted to methadon, but methadon addicts are fit to work.1978, Kurt E. Koch, Occult ABC, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry methadon
• McBride has simply lurked around the house becoming an aging flowerchild and spaced-out heroin addict.1977 April 9, Don Shewey, “Guare's Rich and Famous”, in Gay Community News, page 11. From the entry flower child
• To most addicts, this means, first, a definitive separation from the group.1977, Nikola Shipkovenski, Psychotherapy Versus Iatrogeny: A Confrontation for Physicians. From the entry narcopathic
• The addicts tend to be sneak thieves, shoplifters, and lush rollers.1973, Richard Kunnes, The American heroin empire, page 90. From the entry lush roller
• Barely in his 20s, he already considers himself an addict.2024 February 12, John Semley, “Meet the Zynfluencers: how nicotine pouches ignited a new culture war”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry Zynning
• What Pollan is describing here is a mild form of ‘punding’, a phenomenon first described by intravenous amphetamine addicts.2021 July, AJ Lees, “Never Mind the Neurobollocks”, in The Literary Review. From the entry punding
• Wells does have to reduce my dosage a little, so I won't look like a janked-up addict when I call Sholokhov.2016, Fletcher DeLancey, Catalyst, Kriftel, Germany: Ylva Publishing, →ISBN, page 330. From the entry janked up
• I`ve seen it a lot with stimulant addicts.2015 May 5, Mike Catherwood, quotee, “Discussion of Mental Illness and RedFlag Special”, in CNN. From the entry tweaker
• Has he considered disconnecting his modem and Fedexing it to himself overnight, as some digital addicts say they have done?2011 March 10, Jim Holt, London Review of Books, page 11. From the entry fedex
• With red meat teasing and taunting at nearly every neighborhood eatery, what’s a one-time AAV meat addict supposed to do?2009 November 22, Sam Alcorn, “This is season for giving taste buds a workout”, in The Sunday Item, Sunbury, Pa., →OCLC, page E3, column 3. From the entry the spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak
• What the science shows, he says, is that the brain of an addict is fundamentally different from that of a nonaddict.2000 June 24, Michael Massing, “Seeing Drugs as a Choice Or as a Brain Anomaly”, in The New York Times. From the entry fundamentally
• They’re turning into a bunch of little addicts.”1998, Susan Taggart, chapter 11, in Web of Intrigue (Portraits), Minneapolis, Minn.: Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry café mocha
• This is a common experience among drug addicts who need stronger and stronger doses to regain the old 'kicks'.1996, Samuel Brittan, Capitalism with a human face, page 136. From the entry kick
• Our addicts all have ample checkbooks, the best insurance their professions can buy, and membership in the right upscale cliques.1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 5. From the entry rehab
• Withered addicts drooped into chronic heroin nods.1988 August 20, Wickie Stamps, “Voluptuous Nudes and Withered Addicts”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 7. From the entry nod
• The tape recounts the painting of the Wall of Respect, "the mothertrucking wall," that the local addicts opposed.1982, Community Murals, page 35. From the entry mothertrucking
• The organized pushers went underground to wait out the heat and the addicts started to climb the walls.1970, Wally Ferris, Across 110th, page 93. From the entry climb the walls
• Hanson is no mere artificer, no pseudohaiku addict.1967, James Boyer May, editor, Trace, numbers 64-66, Villiers Publications, page 460. From the entry pseudohaiku
• Single minimal analgesic doses of methadon and metopon seldom produce significant euphoric reaction in either non-addicts or former morphine addicts.1949, U.S. Navy Medicine, page 5. From the entry methadon
• After a turbulent youth — the bookish, asthmatic child became a teenage gangbanger, juvenile offender and drug addict — Coolio worked as a volunteer firefighter.2022 September 29, Eduardo Medina, McKenna Oxenden, “Coolio, ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ Rapper, Dies at 59”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry gangbanger
• There are “homeschoolers (Christian and otherwise), sovereign citizens, weed lovers, and Hillary haters”; domestic abusers, science-deniers, conspiracy theorists, and, above all, addicts.2022 December 8, Judith Shulevitz, “Little House on the Prairie—With Meth”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022. From the entry sovereign citizen
• The scientists used an M.R.I. scanner to compare the brain responses of 12 gambling addicts and 12 nonaddicted people to a card-guessing game.2006 June 25, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “An Anti-Addiction Pill?”, in The New York Times Magazine. From the entry nonaddicted
• A true addict, by definition, is a person whose body and brain are incapable of functioning like normalwise without a particular outside substance.2003, McVea, Memoir of a Modern Opium Eater. From the entry normalwise
• Internet humor is abundant on EverQuest in particular, depicting the lifestyle of an EverQuester as a comical addict, hooked on “digital crack” or EverCrack.2001 February 15, John VanDenburgh, “Caught in the web: Thousands of gamers have been bitten by online role-playing bug”, in The Arizona…. From the entry EverQuester
• While she is here, her youngest is, by pure chance, stolen away by a heroin addict who sells children for adoption by lustful Arabs.1996, Francis Wheen, Lord Gnome's Literary Companion, page 74. From the entry steal
• To further complicate matters, the reactions of family members to the multi-addiction patterns were as unhealthy as the coping of the addicts themselves.1983, Patrick Carnes, The sexual addiction. From the entry multi-addiction
• Strong Cobb & Co. of Cleveland announced a new barbiturate which in overlarge doses will turn the stomachs of "goofball" addicts and would-be suicides.1953 April 27, “Capsules”, in Time. From the entry goofball

Meaning of addict

1. noun A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.
2. noun An adherent or fan (of something).
3. adjective Addicted.

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Questions about addict in a sentence

How do you use addict in a sentence?

Addict is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “He is an addict when it comes to chocolate cookies.”

What is a short sentence with addict?

“a heroin addict”

What does addict mean?

Addict means a person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.