How to Use hallucinogen in a Sentence

hallucinogen

noun
  • And then Teresa hails a man who pops a hallucinogen in her mouth.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The point is to make veterans well, not high on hallucinogens.
    — Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Rates of past-year hallucinogen use also came in at five- and 10-year highs.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 18 Aug. 2023
  • How about a fun one, micro-dosing of hallucinogens?
    — Will Carless, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The hallucinogen is known to raise the risk of abnormal heart rhythms and rates and could cause vomiting.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
  • One massive coke, ketamine and hallucinogens binge later, three stars are born.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2024
  • There’s like one hundred and seventy-five different kinds of herbs and plants, all kinds of hallucinogens and cure-alls.
    — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 13 Apr. 2013
  • Doses of the street drug can be an unknown mix of other stimulants and hallucinogens, and an overdose can be fatal.
    — Author: Dave Philipps, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
  • The not-unconstant use of hallucinogens suggests an ancient epic hijacked by a midnight movie.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2023
  • There have been attempts to regulate or ban the plant because of its reputation as a hallucinogen.
    — AJC.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The hallucinogen is known to predispose patients to abnormal heart rhythms and rates and could cause vomiting.
    — Adam Cancryn, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The mode of thinking of hallucinogen users has been compared to that of primitive peoples, children and schizophrenics.
    — New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • They were grouped in a sheet of tin foil that local officers did not want to fully open and risk contact exposure to the possible hallucinogens.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 15 May 2020
  • Segnitz, of Lexington, took his first drink around 14 years old, then tried pot and hallucinogens at 18.
    — Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Like placebos, hallucinogens also aren’t new, of course, but researchers are repurposing them in promising ways.
    — Maggie Jones, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
  • And in a sign of possibly the most significant generational shift around drug-use habits, use of hallucinogen drugs is also on the rise.
    — Chris Roberts, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • And people of the state of Tiwanaku were known to mix such hallucinogens with alcohol, specifically maize beer.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 June 2023
  • Muscimol is a potent hallucinogen that interacts with receptors in the brain and can cause distortions in size, time and space.
    — Todd McFliker, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2023
  • Some guests at Alchemist seek to enhance their experience with hallucinogens; Munk does not approve.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • To believe any stadium is going to get done by 2020 requires hallucinogens.
    — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 June 2017
  • Osmond was by then well known as a specialist in the altered states produced by LSD and other hallucinogens.
    — Paul Lindholdt, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The episode starts wrapping up the Mexican healing journey that Shep is upset didn’t include even a mild hallucinogen.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
  • It has long been known that the Wari used beer and feasting as part of their political control, but the research proved their access to vilca and its use as a hallucinogen.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Despite the divine assistance of stimulants and hallucinogens, looking for paradise in the middle of a desert party is a hopeless path.
    — Álex Maroño Porto, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Atropine and scopolamine, powerful hallucinogens, can be found in plants in the nightshade family, among them mandrake, henbane and thorn apple.
    — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The people of the neighboring state of Tiwanaku were known to mix such hallucinogens with alcohol, specifically maize beer.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 May 2024
  • There is more variation in the size of Bes mugs than noted in the study, Bryan said, which could certainly have an impact on the dosage and purpose of the hallucinogens.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Nov. 2024
  • In 2015, Hachey was convicted of the sale of a hallucinogen/narcotic, a felony offense.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Prude also had the hallucinogen phencyclidine, or PCP, in his system.
    — Gary Craig, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2020
  • Along with hallucinogens like mescaline and psilocybin (that is, magic mushrooms), LSD was often blamed for bad trips that sent people to the psych ward.
    — Michael Pollan, WSJ, 3 May 2018

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