How to Use coke in a Sentence

coke

1 of 2 noun
  • But Stone saw no such break, his crack and coke habits held up as cautionary tales.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 12 June 2025
  • The man in the coke-bottle glasses was instructed by the other to shoot my dad.
    — Gail Zimmerman, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • After doing a line of coke, Nicky takes a clever and the Mayor’s finger.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Five coke oven plants logged major violations every quarter for at least three years straight.
    — Stephanie Armour, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • So that usually meant this drink felt like a chore to make during an era of Jack and cokes and vodka-sodas.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 11 July 2025
  • The iron and steel hearing was Wednesday, and the coke ovens hearings was Thursday.
    — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The process creates what’s known as coke gas — made up of a lethal mix of methane, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.
    — Marc Levy, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The only people who benefited from me changing those lyrics was my coke dealer at the time.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Throw on your purple sweatshirts, snort some coke, make some questionable choices, and rejoice!
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2022
  • And then there are all those songs that are downright unpleasant, about child molesters or coke dealers or abusive partners.
    — Chelsea Leu, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Months later, the company idled its coke ovens because of major equipment problems.
    — Max Blau, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The dialogue is as disarmingly earnest as that between two strangers snorting coke in a bathroom.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The Clairton facility was one of five coke plants required to set up fence-line monitors for six months.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The titular bear, inspired by a real-life bear, eats a bunch of cocaine after some coke dealers heave it from the sky, and goes on a rampage.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The process produces coke gas, a hazardous mixture of methane, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide.
    — Jenna Sundel gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Barshick said part of the plant is still operable and would continue producing coke, which is used in the steel-producing process.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • But the coke contained fentanyl, and Christina died shortly after ingesting it.
    — Alexandra Rockey Fleming, PEOPLE.com, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The explosion has brought up longstanding questions of health, safety and pollution around the coke plant itself.
    — Christina Lengyel, The Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Other drinks have flavor profiles that recall espresso martinis, rum and cokes or gin martinis.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
  • My partner Goldfinger had a limousine with a coke bowl and a safe installed that took us everywhere—with a driver in uniform at all times!
    — Aliya S. King, VIBE.com, 6 Dec. 2025
  • All of the pollutants are byproducts from the manufacturing of high-carbon coke used to fuel blast furnaces at steel mills.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Coca Cola Add all ingredients except coke to a shaker with ice, and shake for six to eight seconds.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Grabbing a $20 bill, Robertson had the assistant snort three lines of coke — which eventually did the trick.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Like, wow, this bear — which, in real life, ended up dead after eating all this coke — ended up being sort of collateral damage in this war on drugs.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Some community members and advocacy groups hoped air quality would improve after the coke plant was sold.
    — Stephanie Armour, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • An engineer may have to build in a settling time or change the rate of a flow to account for foam formation (consider the difference between pulling a beer and pouring a coke).
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The billions being invested will update equipment, allowing for new products to be created and enabling us to use less coke in the steelmaking process.
    — Tara Molina, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • When tragedy strikes, the men receive unexpected second chances — and a magical briefcase of never-ending coke — thanks to a woman who looks vaguely familiar.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Goncalves said the company is also making changes to be more environmentally friendly, using less coke in the steel making process and increasing its use of scrap metal.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The plant in Clairton is the largest coke-manufacturing facility in the United States.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025

coke

2 of 2 verb
  • This is the place where iconic musicians have checked in, coked up, wrote music, broke the rules, and bonded for decades.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The project would have produced 10 million metric tons a year of both thermal and coking coal for 20 years.
    — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
  • That of course would be Lewis, an old high school acquaintance, who’s coked to the gills and deep in the grip of paranoid delusions when Skye arrives.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Russia has also been shipping oil and products like coking coal and fertilizer the opposite way.
    — Ivan Nechepurenko Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Cocaine Bear crashes the ceremony and gets the entire audience coked up.
    — Vulture, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The company has been struggling for years to decarbonize its steel production, as the price of powering its existing coking plants has soared.
    — Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The last major coking coal mine still under Kyiv’s control is also just to the west of the city, supplying coke to make steel – an indispensable wartime resource.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Keeping the mine running as long as possible was critical for Metinvest, which relied on coking coal to smelt iron ore into steel at its factories further west.
    — Daria Mitiuk Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Tapping of traditional hydrocarbons can also not be discounted via its coking coal deposits and potential for offshore oil and gas drilling.
    — Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The city is also known for being home to Ukraine's only domestic coking coal supplier, which produces a key ingredient for its steel industry.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Golden Energy is doubling down on its investment in coking coal even as the world’s biggest mining companies withdraw from fossil fuels.
    — Yessar Rosendar, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Anglo American is the world’s third-largest exporter of coking coal, supplying customers across Asia, Europe, and South America.
    — Yessar Rosendar, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Reuters reported on Monday, citing two industry sources, that the country's only coking coal mine supplying Ukraine's steel manufacturing was shut down as advancing Russian forces close in on the site.
    — John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
  • West Cumbria Mining’s lawyer James Strachan said in court filings that the development would not cause a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions, as the use of coking coal extracted from the mine is driven by demand for steel.
    — Reuters, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The explosion also triggered a wave of heightened safety inspections across China’s coal sector, tightening the supply outlook for coking coal and sending prices soaring Monday, according to Reuters.
    — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2026

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