How to Use addict in a Sentence

addict

1 of 2 noun
  • How many ex-addicts get to do that?
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
  • As an addict, she’s trapped in a loop, and there’s no clean way out.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 June 2026
  • If there’s going to be an addict, where did that come from?
    — Giana Levy, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
  • No meth addicts running the drive-thru; that was a strong start.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026
  • Griner is a drug addict and should have served her 9-year sentence.
    — Chicago Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
  • And these guys have all gone over the top — heroin addicts, on and on and on and on.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Apr. 2023
  • But for me, my sperm donor was a drug addict and drug dealer and went to jail for that.
    — Grace Byron, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • Even dour Eva is a coffee addict and a heck of a karaoke singer.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Fame is a drug, after all, and Love was a drug addict.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Me, a former drunk and meth addict who could very well have rabies.
    — David Sedaris, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • A lot of 'em are ex addicts, alcoholics, a lot of us.
    — Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The woman begs for help with homeless drug addicts.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • Best-case scenario, addicts are sent to rehab and emerge clean and sober.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • There’s babies that are being raised by meth addicts.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Farrell’s study of a gambling addict is screen acting of a rare kind.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Starbucks addicts and fall lovers alike, rejoice.
    — Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Andrea Owen, a former love addict turned life coach, told me.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Seeing a drug addict let loose on your block is maddening.
    — Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • For a time, no one in the world was believed to have treated more gambling addicts than him.
    — Jasper Craven, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Her daughter, Mev, a methadone addict, is renting a place down the street.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
  • One parent died young and another was an addict.
    — Adam Duxter, CBS News, 20 June 2026
  • On the other side of the ball is an addict who is seriously ill.
    — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Harper and him are both addicts of a certain kind of thrill, a certain kind of action.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Earlier in her life, Rocha was an addict and living on the streets.
    — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • So often, people turn the other cheek and pay them no mind or assume addicts are too far gone.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Illicit drug prices will go up and problems for drug addicts will increase.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Perhaps one out of every fifteen, twenty men were drug addicts up there.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Why is everyone so afraid of saying that drug addicts shouldn’t let their dogs bite people?
    — David Sedaris, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • My dream would be to play a homeless [person] or a drug addict, someone with a lot of issues.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
  • From filling my senses with everything that’s her, like an addict in need of his next fix.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025

addict

2 of 2 verb
  • A lot of us are addicted to tech platforms.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
  • This addicting shrimp recipe manages the best blend of salty and sweet.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 5 June 2026
  • Then you’d be addicted to betting on sports.
    — Kiese Laymon, Vanity Fair, 30 Apr. 2026
  • His son goes to Vietnam and comes back addicted to drugs.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Jones said the mothers of both of these children were addicted to drugs.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2019
  • And yet, kids and teens are most likely to get addicted to using them.
    — Liz Regalia, Parents, 26 Sep. 2025
  • In a world addicted to hype cycles, those traits aren’t just admirable.
    — Lisa Song Sutton, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Being addicted to drugs is hell.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Our testers are addicted and stressed that it’s constantly sold out.
    — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Dahlia is used to a hard-knock life that began in her childhood with a mother addicted to drugs.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Is there any root cause for musicians getting addicted to drugs?
    — Henry Everingham, Spin, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Trinkets follows a group of girls who are addicted to shoplifting.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 17 June 2019
  • And there are few treatment options for teens addicted to nicotine.
    — Author: Moriah Balingit, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2019
  • The rats are multiplying because our city is addicted to putting trash out in bags on the street.
    — Curbed, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Rory was smart, quiet but just as caffeine addicted and witty as her mom.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Many of the inmates are addicted to illicit drugs.
    — Raquel Rutledge, ProPublica, 8 May 2026
  • After the tour, Noel quit drugs but got addicted to prescription drugs.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Cara was addicted to opiates and wrote bad checks against her stepfather’s account.
    — Josh Kovner, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The woman said the man had been addicted to pills in the past and had served prison time related to his addiction.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The chorizo wrap is filled with high-quality meat and cheese that’s almost addicting to eat, and the black beans are a nice touch.
    — Alex Darus, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Many high performers are addicted to the wrong kind of improvement.
    — Gerald J. Leonard, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026
  • The plaintiffs argued the platforms were designed to keep teens addicted.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 3 Apr. 2026
  • There are people who are addicted, in desperate need of treatment, who are stuck in prisons and jails.
    — The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Adding creamed corn to these drop biscuits turns them into an addicting mash-up of a moist cornbread and a buttery biscuit.
    — Hailee Catalano, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Jan. 2026
  • As a person addicted to meth for 11 years, my poor choices led to extreme paranoia.
    — Ed Kressy, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Dostoyevsky was as addicted as anyone to the crime stories flooding the papers.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Efforts to cut off people who are addicted risk sending them onto the black market for supplies.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • What is clear is their intense bond, the brash intimacy of people addicted to repartee and raised by liars.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Brussel sprouts were addicting.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Big Tech has designed its social-media platforms to addict our children.
    — Michael Toscano, National Review, 9 May 2023

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