How to Use cocaine in a Sentence

cocaine

noun
  • The sharks are tweaked on cocaine.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
  • This is not the first time cocaine has been found in sharks.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But that whole thing with the cocaine was improv.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Which leads us back to the cocaine cover.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 22 Apr. 2026
  • That whole thing with the cocaine was improv.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Both girls were doing lines of cocaine.
    — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Bird poop scraped off a man’s car appeared on a drug test as cocaine.
    — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2026
  • That was the day he was found dead from a cocaine overdose last year.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The latter song tells the tale of a cocaine deal that left four men dead.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
  • There’s fentanyl in some cocaine now, too.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 10 June 2026
  • The cocaine, truck and trailer were seized.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • The ships would be loaded with the cocaine at night near the ports where they were docked.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • His cause of death was ruled an overdose of cocaine and heroin.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Banks was charged with possession of half an ounce or more of cocaine.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
  • For someone to give him access to cocaine — that pissed me off.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Five of the ten largest cocaine seizures in Europe took place last year.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 22 June 2024
  • The news release did not state how much cocaine was found inside the cheese.
    — CBS News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • On May 15, one of the men on the trip brought out some cocaine.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Fentanyl and cocaine in two clear baggies were found in his shoe by his bed.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The package that fell from the sky was a 75-pound bale of cocaine.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And is there such a thing as metaphorical cocaine?
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2026
  • One of them was charged with trafficking cocaine.
    — Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • One-third of the fish received cocaine implants.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • Coote also addressed his use of cocaine.
    — Ali Rampling, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Decades earlier he had been caught peddling cocaine and spent four years in prison.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The tour was, like many in those days, fueled by copious amounts of cocaine.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The gun was found, along with various amounts of fentanyl and crack cocaine.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The cocaine was packaged in tiny bundles the same size as the peanuts in the shipment of nuts.
    — Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 13 Sep. 2021
  • He was found to have fentanyl, ketamine and cocaine in his system at the time of his death.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2024
  • To answer that question, Jack and his team gave salmon cocaine.
    — Regina G. Barber, NPR, 12 May 2026

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