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• Alcohol, opium and laughing gas are intoxicants.From the entry intoxicant
• Meconic acid constitutes about 5% of opium.From the entry meconic acid
• To the railway's official mindset, it might as well have been an opium den in Victorian London.2023 September 6, Greg Morse, “One more for the road?”, in RAIL, number 991, pages 49-50. From the entry roadhouse
• 'When trading in opium becomes legal I doubt if Gemmell Company will be lagging behind.'2012, E.V. Thompson, Dream Traders, →ISBN. From the entry dance to a different tune
• The turfy-chocolaty nosegay of raw opium wafts from hundreds of milk cans.2007 September 11, Donald G[erald] McNeil, Jr., “In India, a quest to ease the pain of the dying”, in The New York Times, archived from…. From the entry nosegay
• Desperately injured, sick, or miserable workers used the "black pill," an overdose of opium, to commit suicide.2005, Volney Steele, Bleed, Blister, and Purge. From the entry black pill
• Under its leadership, opium dens were shut down, and opium shops were licensed or closed.2003, Joyce A. Madancy, “Provincial Patterns of Reform Before the Revolution of 1911”, in The Troublesome Legacy of Commissioner Lin: The…. From the entry Changtai
• There is a beautiful Chinese boy who prepares his opium pipes.1990, Gore Vidal, “Maugham's Half & Half”, in Donald Weise, editor, Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, The New York Review of Books, →ISBN…. From the entry Fu-chou
• The two of them were getting bombed on bami-bam, beer, and joints laced with opium.1982, Marc Olden, chapter 7, in Giri, New York, N.Y.: Arbor House, →ISBN; republished [New York, N.Y.]: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road…. From the entry fugazi
• Sometimes you couldn't get opium, maybe no ship had come in. so I changed to the white stuff — heroin.2013, David T. Courtwright, Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use, page 84. From the entry white stuff
• British merchants lived on Double Island, and sold opium.2003, Hudson Taylor, “Called to Swatow”, in Looking Back: An Autobiography (Missions), OMF International, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 84–85. From the entry Double Island
• The dialectical obverse of this use of opium is the fear that opium will turn humans into nonhumans or antihumans.2002, Keith McMahon, The Fall of the God of Money, page 190. From the entry nonhuman
• He only describes men who voluntarily, even euphorically, deliver themselves into the state of unchoice that opium gives them.2002, Keith McMahon, The Fall of the God of Money. From the entry unchoice
• The act at the Alamo began with Jackson sprawled on a chair and pretending to be smoking opium.1991, Jimmy Breslin, Damon Runyon, New York, N.Y.: Ticknor & Fields, →ISBN, pages 176–177. From the entry toy
• He used a broom handle with a tin cup at the end as if he were cooking opium.1991, Jimmy Breslin, Damon Runyon, New York, N.Y.: Ticknor & Fields, →ISBN, pages 176–177. From the entry toy
• The story of Coleridge's opium addiction is further confused by his habit of referring to laudanum as a stimulant.1968, Alethea Hayter, Opium and the Romantic Imagination, Univ of California Press, page 194. From the entry pint
• Heat burned in my cheeks, for I had kissed the opia quite passionately before I realized he was the spirit of a dead ancestor.2013, Kate Elliott, Cold Steel, →ISBN. From the entry opia
• Although Hong Kong was not yet a great mercantile mart, it was the major opium emporium east of the Cape of Good Hope.1997, Bob Dye, “Kit-Fat Wife”, in Merchant Prince of the Sandalwood Mountains: Afong and the Chinese in Hawai‘i (A Latitude 20 Book)…. From the entry emporium
• The Lancashire cottonocracy was still waiting for El Dorado, and was quite prepared to believe that the opium trade was delaying its arrival.1996, Bill Schwarz, The Expansion of England: Race, Ethnicity and Cultural History. From the entry cottonocracy
• Prostrate from opium wars and divided into spheres of European influence, China was unable to protect her citizens from Occidentals who seduced them to immigrate.1994, Jimmy M. Skaggs, “Shoveling It: Life and Labor on Guano Islands”, in The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas…. From the entry macao
• The assertion that true value is crystallized labour-time is on a par with the statement that opium puts people to sleep because it is soporific.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon…. From the entry crystallized
• As a result of these you take marijuana, intoxicants, LSD, opium, and so many tens of millions of things which torporize your judgment.1976, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, The Guidebook to the True Secret of the Heart - Volume 1, page 18. From the entry torporize
• On the top Balcony is Esperanza just down from the mountains since her husband and all her brothers are in prison for growing opium poppies.1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 5. From the entry poppies
• My next trip down I had an ounce of uncut marijuana and ten yen poks of opium rolled into pellets, about the size of saccharin.1971, Florrie Fisher, The Lonely Trip Back. From the entry yen pok
• Laudanum, a derivative of opium, was the name given to a secret remedy concocted by the occultist Paracelsus, in the sixteenth century.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 171. From the entry laudanum
• It is an explanation of the same order as the famous saying that opium puts men to sleep because of its dormitive power.1916, John Dewey, Democracy and Education. From the entry dormitive
• Goldie, the longest serving CMS woman missionary, was invited by the head of a large opium club to attend a meeting held on the anniversary of the revolution.2017, Frances Slater, “Amy”, in The Wolfe Sisters of Foochow, China: Born to Evangelise, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 167. From the entry Kienning
• Basically Louis's drug dealer and pimp, Richelieu, known for opium recipes to fit all occasions, is also credited with the introduction into France of the cantharides, or Spanish fly.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 612. From the entry cantharides
• Sometimes a little lettuce opium just to get me into it, but I don't feel like that you have to give me no happy endings here.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 528. From the entry lettuce opium
• And to any intelligent reader, explanation of an 'inherent ability' was reminiscent of Molière's mock explanation of the soporific effects of opium - that it contained a 'dormitive principle'.2003, Ian Glynn, An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind. From the entry dormitive principle
• Fearing that possibly you might come in by accident and find me hanging, I have taken a dose of opium, so as to make certain of death.1910, J[ohn] O[tway] P[ercy] Bland, E[dmund] Backhouse, China under the Empress Dowager, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., page 137. From the entry to-morrow
• Elaine has a bagel or two for breakfast, takes a drug test for work, and the next day finds out she tested positive for opium - “You know, white lotus.2007 May 15, Anahad O'Connor, Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live…. From the entry yam yam
• At Wanhsien, midway through the gorges, a grizzle-haired man, thin as an opium smoker, climbed on board, and was hailed by one of the Brothers with me as Uncle Chu.1965, Han Suyin, The Crippled Tree, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 226. From the entry Wanhsien
• Nothing but an opium dream could transform the bare walls and the dirty cotton curtains into an Oriental palace with silken drapes and bedfuls of lovely daughters of the East.1948, Collier's: Incorporating Features of the American Magazine, page 133. From the entry bedful

Meaning of opium

1. noun A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
2. noun Anything that numbs or stupefies.

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How do you use opium in a sentence?

Opium is used as a noun. For example: “Alcohol, opium and laughing gas are intoxicants.”

What is a short sentence with opium?

“They're bringing opium, they're bandits.”

What does opium mean?

Opium means a yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.