How to Use drugged in a Sentence

drugged

adjective
  • Drunk, drugged, Max drove his dad’s car into tree.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The drugged Krendler comments on how good his brain tastes and smells.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
  • Maryam turned her back to me and soon drifted into a deep, drugged sleep.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The same woman who used to have fun behind her camera now seems sleepy, dazed, and even drugged.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Strawberry was too tired, too drugged, or simply too out of it from her surgery the previous day to protest.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022
  • She was being abused—beaten, drugged, denied money—but trafficked?
    — Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Not with the quietness of a disease already in her brain; not drugged and almost constantly sleeping.
    — Molly Aitken, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Brunson's video showed the drugged kangaroo being carried to a vehicle to be returned to its home.
    — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The dude can work in Van Halen song titles or stupid words from drugged-out journalists on demand and on command.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Igor, for his part, is the sort of hero who, unless he is tied up, drugged or hit from behind, will get the best of any opponent; even one with a gun.
    — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Becka is drugged and married off to Garth (Brad Alexander), the man Agnes is in love with.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 27 May 2026
  • Of the students who reported being drugged, 79% were female.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The victim told officials that he was bound at the wrists and drugged, shocked with electric wires, hit in the head with a firearm and dangled over a ledge at the top of stairs.
    — Jared Gans, The Hill, 26 May 2025
  • Minnelli writes that Garland would remain in bed for days, depressed and heavily drugged.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The girl was able to tell investigators that she was bound to a bedpost for nearly a week and given alcohol to keep her in a drugged state.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 7 Sep. 2022
  • And that was done mostly wordlessly in a drugged stupor, so that was always going to be a challenge, not to just be the boring guy falling asleep.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2025
  • After the first injection, Plaintiff appeared drugged on camera.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
  • However, Ronstadt gave up after several hours when Sill appeared too drugged out to play.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Nowhere is this perhaps more evident than in the glitzy emirate of Dubai, whose leader kidnapped, drugged and imprisoned his own daughter.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
  • Citizens branded as subversives were stripped, drugged and tossed from airplanes into the Río de la Plata.
    — Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • As punishment for abandoning her mother, Trisha is forcibly drugged and taken back to the Van Ness home.
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The drugged soldiers stumbled and had difficulty keeping their balance, according to the proffer.
    — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Later on, Armond, in a drugged haze, enters Shane’s room, drops his trousers, and squats, straining out a memento in his rival’s suitcase.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Pamela and John had a tumultuous relationship, divorcing and remarrying at least four times while living in a drugged haze.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • In fact, Dan (Penn Badgley) is the sole believer in the story that Serena was drugged.
    — Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The drugged murderers are disassociated in every sense.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • For decades, police administered the drugs freely (though judges ubiquitously rejected the drugged testimony as invalid).
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2021
  • McSweeney’s language moves like a drugged animal in a fluorescent tunnel—half divine, half municipal.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • One drugged and raped his own wife according to Pelicot’s instructions and offered her to Pelicot; another proposed his mother as a prospective victim.
    — Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Prosecutors said the brothers, while working with others, repeatedly and violently drugged, assaulted, and raped the women.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 16 Jan. 2026

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