How to Use ayahuasca in a Sentence

ayahuasca

noun
  • Aaron Rodgers says ayahuasca is 'not a drug,' may be 'called' to take it again.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The two men take the ayahuasca and go on an extremely intense trip.
    — Barry Levitt, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The ayahuasca appears to be working.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Some people do ayahuasca, some people just do therapy.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 12 Dec. 2025
  • This is a drug that occurs naturally in plants and is one of the active constituents in ayahuasca.
    — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
  • In the book, Lee and Allerton get close to finding the ayahuasca, but that door is quickly shut.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The ticket to have is for an ayahuasca experience in a Soho loft.
    — Rachelle Robinett, Bon Appetit, 19 Dec. 2017
  • And what kind of restorative getaway would be complete without a fireside ayahuasca sesh?
    — Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 31 May 2019
  • It’s called ayahuasca, and the active chemical in it is called DMT.
    — National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2016
  • Forget about the ayahuasca, forget about the tropical vistas, forget about all that.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 7 Apr. 2018
  • The same goes for other hallucinogens, like DMT and ayahuasca.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Was the Packers' celebration about Aaron Rodgers' use of ayahuasca?
    — Christopher Kuhagen, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2022
  • There was a faint smell of ayahuasca in the air; the house incense is made, in part, from resin left over after psychedelic religious ceremonies.
    — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2021
  • There were groups devoted to ayahuasca and microdosing and bitcoin and salsa dancing.
    — Benjamin Wallace, Daily Intelligencer, 12 July 2017
  • The tourist had to kill the British man in self-defense, the paper wrote — one of several violent incidents linked to ayahuasca tourism.
    — Samantha Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • In a new study, researchers found the traditional psychoactive drug ayahuasca stimulates the growth of new brain cells in the hippocampi of research mice.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Someone offers me a vape pen loaded with DMT — the main active molecule in ayahuasca.
    — Cassady Rosenblum, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2022
  • The active chemical in ayahuasca is dimethyltryptamine (DMT).
    — Christopher Kuhagen, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2022
  • During a two-year acting break, Smith vacationed to Peru and went on 14 ayahuasca journeys.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 24 May 2022
  • Like willow bark and countless other ancient compounds, people have known for millennia that ayahuasca is doing something that adds value to their lives.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The compound, which is found in a variety of plants and animals, is the psychoactive ingredient in the drug ayahuasca, the above source stated.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Perhaps a megadose of LSD, or a shroom trip, or one more ayahuasca ceremony will finally heal me.
    — Stuart Leach, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Many new ayahuasca shamans have started touring Colombia giving yagé (another term for the brew) to enthusiasts.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2019
  • Her husband wasn’t interested in drinking ayahuasca, but came to Costa Rica to support her.
    — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Each of them has studied the healing modality for a minimum of ten years to equip them to safely and responsibly deliver ayahuasca healing.
    — Michaela Trimble, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
  • Rodgers went on a darkness retreat, took an ayahuasca journey and lied about being vaccinated during his final years in Green Bay.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Perhaps the vision wasn’t the result of a bad burrito, or of taking ayahuasca with Rodgers on one of Rodgers’s spiritual quests.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The character, and therefore Lang, can project all of those things and then, moments later, perform an ayahuasca-esque trip inside a Na'vi hut.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Famously, the liana is one of the two main ingredients in a ritual drink called ayahuasca, which can induce hallucinations or an altered state of mind.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 16 May 2022
  • Researchers who gave ayahuasca to a group of Israelis and Palestinians were optimistic about its potential for peace-building.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021

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