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How to use addicted in a sentence

32 example sentences · adjective

Addicted means having a biochemical addiction. Example: “When you upgrade your standard of living, you become addicted to that standard of living.”

More sentences with addicted

  • When you upgrade your standard of living, you become addicted to that standard of living.From the entry upgrade
  • As a result of being addicted to heroin, she was falling apart.From the entry fall apart
  • She is addicted to posting SFW cel-shaded HMOFAs on Tumblr.From the entry HMOFA
  • Many young men in the West are addicted to video games.2023 July 23, Dennis Yuleman, The Tetralithic Era So We Shall Not Mourn A Paradise Lost. From the entry surrogate activity
  • He kept getting me chitta for free for some days, gradually I started getting addicted.2021 October 1, Sanjeev P. Sahni, Poulomi Bhadra, Criminal Psychology and the Criminal Justice System in India and Beyond, Springer…. From the entry chitta
  • I have usually taken this pillow with me when travelling because I am addicted to its marshmallowyness.2000 January 9, James Kibo Parry, “Farewell to my oldest surviving friend.”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet), archived from the original…. From the entry marshmallowiness
  • I know a guy who had surgery done and he is now addicted to the PKs.1999 January 4, Kelly Potts, “Re: genetic traits”, in alt.native (Usenet). From the entry pk
  • Except for the nose candy, I'm addicted to all of them, to a greater or lesser degree.1999, Les Roberts, A Shoot in Cleveland, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry nose candy
  • 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
  • A mandragorite was a term applied to one addicted to mandrake as a narcotic.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 145. From the entry mandragorite
  • By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.1907, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Cupid à la Carte”, in Heart of the West, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company for…. From the entry cut the mustard
  • The Hawaiian gods were supposed to be particularly addicted to the use of awa.1900, Oliver P. Emerson, “The Awa Habit of the Hawaiians”, in All about Hawaii: The Recognized Book of Authentic Information on Hawaii…. From the entry awa
  • I wanna b like those girls who study NON STOP and are basically addicted to studying, any tips?2023 October 27, u/electriccitydrive, “How do I become obsessed with studying”, in Reddit, r/GetStudying, archived from the original on 11…. From the entry b
  • I was addicted to Dr Mami’s Snapchat stories.2022, Yewande Biala, Reclaiming: Essays on Finding Yourself, One Piece at a Time, Coronet, →ISBN. From the entry gworl
  • To cure Michel, who got addicted to euphorine?2017, Henry Oldie, The End Justifies the Means, →ISBN. From the entry euphorine
  • Everyone becomes addicted to my tomato flamiche, my far breton made with figs and also my Croatian pepper biscuits.2013, Barbara Unković, “Visitors”, in Weeds in the Garden of Eden: A Journey Back to Family Roots, and Life in a Traditional Croatian…. From the entry flamiche
  • Except in this case, most of those developers are themselves addicted to what some call the “World of Warcrack.”2009 December 2–8, Ben Richardson, “No escape from Azeroth”, in The San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 44, number 9, San Francisco…. From the entry World of Warcrack
  • They are slow-moving and blubberous and thus were an abundant source of oil for a world not yet addicted to petroleum.2006, Arline and Sam Bleecker, "Holland American Has a Whale of a Program," Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep.. From the entry blubberous
  • The mother, who is addicted to glue, paint-thinner and nail-polish-remover, has three other children, all in the care of child-welfare authorities.1996 September 13, Stephen Bindman, “Court says it can’t protect addict’s fetus”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page A2, column 4. From the entry nail-polish-remover
  • By locating the addicted person in these categories, the construer places the addicted person into superordinate categories shared by other persons.1992, Practice - Volume 8, Issue 1, page 48. From the entry construer
  • “Oed,” looking at her puzzled, “you don't get addicted.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry hophead
  • We want them addicted, not dead.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Dosage, Modern Medicine, Kadara. From the entry re-up
  • For this is worth getting addicted.2009, Tomaž Šalamun, translated by Brian Henry, “[Three poems] The Loire Delta”, in Jacket, number 37, archived from the original on 25…. From the entry spasmodicality
  • On the other hand (and perhaps incompatibly) he was thought to be dangerously addicted to speculation: 'an inveterate theorist, an intellectual cardhouse builder'.2007, H. S. Jones, Intellect and Character in Victorian England, page 43. From the entry cardhouse
  • Physiologically, humans misconsume when they eat too much in a sitting or over a lifetime or when they become addicted to a drug.2002, Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, Ken Conca, Confronting Consumption, page 33. From the entry misconsume
  • Cows addicted to the habit of sucking themselves should be taken in hand as soon as they are known to be self-suckers.1913, The Breeder's Gazette, Farm Buildings, page 310. From the entry self-sucker
  • "The Chinese are much addicted to the doctrine of signatures," writes one author, which creates relationships on visual physical grounds (such as equivalating the seed-laden pomegranate with fertility).2008, Patricia Bjaaland Welch, Chinese art: a guide to motifs and visual imagery, page 12. From the entry equivalate
  • These medicines addicted, sickened, or killed outright; they also could trigger chemical pneumonitis, or progressive lung injury, if inhaled during a bout of iatrogenic, or physician–triggered, vomiting.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 42. From the entry iatrogenic
  • Addicted to the sentimental novels that he is fed on the sly by the son of the circulating librarianess, Edward Denham represents an outdated, Lovelacean libertinism.2000, Deidre Lynch, Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry librarianess
  • I was addicted to them in high school for their peanut buttery taste and whenever we were allowed to go the PX, I bought a package of them.2000, Debra Haraldson, “Contraband”, in Just Shut Your Mouth & Do What You're Told: Surviving In The Army, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris…. From the entry peanut buttery
  • At that period the L.N.W.R., with its Webb compounds, was addicted to late arrivals at Carlisle and the Caledonian proceeded to make up the arrears with a "do-or-die" attitude.1959 February, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Dunalastair I" 4-4-0s of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86. From the entry do-or-die
  • At the Sing-Sing Prison in New York, for instance, it is estimated that, of the number of prisoners addicted to narcotics, at least 75 per cent are heroinomaniacs.1924, Health Committee: Minutes, page 58. From the entry heroinomaniac

Meaning of addicted

  1. adjective Having a biochemical addiction.
  2. adjective Devoted to or obsessed with something.

Full definition of addicted

Questions about addicted in a sentence

How do you use addicted in a sentence?
Addicted is used as an adjective. For example: “When you upgrade your standard of living, you become addicted to that standard of living.”
What is a short sentence with addicted?
“For this is worth getting addicted.”
What does addicted mean?
Addicted means having a biochemical addiction.

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