How to Use drug in a Sentence

drug

1 of 2 noun
  • I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs.
  • Have you ever taken any illegal drugs?
  • Is there any drug abuse in 'Michael'?
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But what also won out was drugs.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Lost in the drugs and the excess.
    — Tracy Wright , Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Most drugs are banned in the world of elite sports, but not here.
    — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Because a drug isn’t just a drug.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The transfer of the drugs was on.
    — Martin Suarez, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2025
  • You into booze or drugs these days?
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The drug business is, in a word, big.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
  • That alone is reason not to drink or do drugs.
    — Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • And the gap was even bigger for brand-name drugs.
    — Nicole F. Roberts, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • The song combines love at first sight, drugs, and death.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Many of them had heard about the drug bust and didn’t want any of his heat on them.
    — Keith O’Brien, New Yorker, 25 June 2026
  • Morton said a third of his patients are on the drugs.
    — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2026
  • The drug that could one day regrow real teeth is still years away.
    — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2026
  • Avoid carrying any drugs or weapons to protests.
    — Alex Perry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The drugs arrived at his doorstep, no questions asked.
    — Christa Brown, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • No matter what, and don’t ever start drugs.
    — Christine Terrisse, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Venezuela said none of those on board were drug traffickers.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • After the busts, agents sent the drugs to the lab for testing.
    — Asher Redd, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Many drugs today are laced with fentanyl.
    — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The drugs could be worth tens of thousands of dollars on the street.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
  • This drug starves babies and harms mothers!
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • A lot of drug stores and health-food stores carry pure aloe vera gel.
    — Cathy Wong, Verywell Health, 12 Apr. 2024
  • But, like the weight-loss drug, the issue was not bargained with unions.
    — Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The drug companies were tight-lipped.
    — Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But the drug war had exacted a heavy toll in his diocese.
    — Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The fire has gone out, the party drugs are all used up, and the lights have turned on at the club.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Plaguing the South Side at the time was drug use among the youth.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026

drug

2 of 2 verb
  • He looks like he's been drugged.
  • Someone could have drugged your drink.
  • A lot of the women seem to be drugged.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Arnold’s drugged and chained and made to appear on the show.
    — Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Last year, Reid claimed she was drugged at a hotel bar.
    — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
  • All of these men were drugged, per the indictment.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • There were six of us in the tent, three couples, snug in our sacks and sleeping like people drugged.
    — Doris Decleene, Outdoor Life, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Mace has said previously on the House floor that she has been drugged and raped.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Court records show that forensic testing did not find evidence that the woman had been drugged.
    — Ashley Luthern, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • There was a plot in which a wrestler named Triple H drugged Stephanie and married her inert body.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • No woman should suffer from being drugged and victimized.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The women, prosecutors say, were often drugged before they were raped.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The women, prosecutors say, were often drugged before they were raped.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • At their third encounter, Drewes alleged that Swalwell drugged, raped, and choked her in his hotel room.
    — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Smart later testified that she had been drugged, tied to a tree and raped as often as four times a day, the outlet reported.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Her polished demeanor as the head of the company and host cracks as the night takes a turn, when the guests all discover their drinks were drugged.
    — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
  • One of them was kept for thirty-five days, the other one was kept for forty days, and they were constantly drugged in order to be kept quiet.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The implication that she may have been drugged landed with particular force.
    — Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
  • How long is Logan drugged and experimented on?
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • There’s got to be this moment when Angel, after getting drugged, wakes up and sees the situation.
    — Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Matthews was first reported for drugging and raping a woman in 2020.
    — Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Certain that her father drugged her and possibly raped her too, Caroline has been left in the limbo of the unproven.
    — Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Authorities believe he may have been drugged and are investigating that claim.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • There have been widespread reports of patrons being pickpocketed and drugged at The Abbey for years.
    — James Factora, Them., 20 Oct. 2025
  • The action begins as an angry, volatile, directionless young man goes out for a night on the town with friends, drinking, drugging and looking for a fight.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Nikitin was drugged and brutalized by his captors in the Soviet psychiatric prisons.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Caroline accuses her father of drugging and raping her too, a claim that has been eating away at the family since the photos were found over five years ago.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Nègre is reportedly accused of drugging the women with a diuretic by spiking their coffees or teas.
    — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
  • This season, during an unfilmed dinner, it was allegedly suggested that Judge might have drugged Rossi that night.
    — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Instead, Cherry arrived at the house, found Daniel drugged and tried to escape with him, but a fight instead broke out with Laura.
    — Julia Moore, People.com, 11 Sep. 2025

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