How to Use date rape in a Sentence

date rape

noun
  • He was accused of date rape.
  • Her urine had no trace of date rape drugs, the document says.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2021
  • In Giles's case, GHB – known as the date rape drug – was found in her system.
    — Alicia Tejada, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the incidents involved date rape drugs and ocurred at major resorts and hotels.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • One of the men pictured here was directly responsible for my date rape.
    — Aisha Harris, New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • Predators have slipped it into the drinks of unsuspecting date rape victims.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 18 June 2018
  • As the Times noted, most date rape drugs don't stay in the system long enough to be detected in a standard drug test.
    — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2022
  • But pinpointing an exact drug used in an instance of date rape is seldom straightforward.
    — Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2026
  • KnoNap isn’t the first or only attempt to curb date rape with supplies commonly found in the party aisle.
    — Torey Van Oot, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The situation is instantly blurry, maybe changing it to date rape.
    — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Hill said doctors told her Vanderbilt doesn’t test for GHB or other date rape drugs.
    — Kelly Puente, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Sep. 2025
  • California bars serving alcohol must sell or offer customers test strips to make sure their drinks haven’t been spiked with date rape drugs as of this week.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
  • Hospitals don’t have a uniform protocol of when to screen for date rape drugs, and the drugs might be out of a person’s system by the time they are tested.
    — Kelly Puente, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Sep. 2025
  • There had been speculation that Thitima was given a date rape drug such as GHB.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Hill’s experience comes as Nashville has worked in recent years to raise awareness over the issue of date rape drugs at bars and restaurants.
    — Kelly Puente, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The first major national date rape case came in 1990, and it was met with widespread confusion and dismissal.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 24 Sep. 2018
  • The moves come after a legislative staffer reported that a lobbyist used a date rape drug on her earlier this month during an off-site meeting.
    — Cayla Harris, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Rusk said her sister suffered from depression and bulimia, and a date rape was the final straw that would lead her sibling to take her own life at age 17.
    — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The teen drama tackled issues like teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, drug abuse, eating disorders, suicide and date rape.
    — Kelly Martinez, Peoplemag, 17 July 2023
  • Women who took the stand described being viciously attacked after they had been isolated, often after they had been drugged with date rape drugs and other sedatives.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • One of its leaders, Alan Redding, recalled how his son’s 9th grade class was discussing a book a few years ago when graphic passages about date rape were read aloud in class.
    — Steve Karnowski and Mike Catalini, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Lemke said Sculley claims that on the night of May 31, Carragher gave her a vape that contained an apparent date rape drug that paralyzed her.
    — Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • Their startup is developing a chemical sensor embedded in jewelry that can discreetly detect date rape drugs in drinks.
    — Lucy Glynn, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026
  • Hill said the tests all came back clear, but that she wasn’t screened for GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate) or other drugs that are commonly used as date rape drugs.
    — Kelly Puente, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Sep. 2025
  • A week after Christie disappeared, Garcia searched online for information about how authorities test for date rape drugs.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • A week after Christie disappeared, Garcia searched online for information about how authorities test for date rape drugs.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • These tests, often referred to as a date rape test panels, typically need to be performed as soon as possible, as the drugs are known to leave the system quickly, usually within one to two days.
    — Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2022
  • In her first collection of nonfiction, Gaitskill, ever prescient, tackles everything from date rape to politics to her own creative process.
    — Joumana Khatib, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Until, that is, Tess is the victim of a shockingly brutal date rape by another brilliant young colleague—this one the son of a rich and powerful London lawyer.
    — Trish Deitch, Variety, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Her essays’ subjects range from Bjork to Elizabeth Wurtzel to date rape to Nabokov (twice), revealing a mind at work that is truly singular.
    — Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 16 Jan. 2018

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