How to Use ketamine in a Sentence

ketamine

noun
  • Is Shane the last straw, or has the ketamine addled his brain?
    — Lisa Liebman, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2021
  • MacLean isn’t alone in weighing the pros and cons of ketamine.
    — Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The generic ketamine pills or lozenges are mailed to patients’ homes.
    — Brianna Abbott and Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Evil dentists and ketamine queens lurk in the shadows, ready to jump-scare you.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
  • His death was later ruled to be the result of the acute effects of ketamine.
    — Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
  • Patients will be hooked up to an IV line to receive the ketamine.
    — Jane Stueckemann, Houston Chronicle, 9 July 2019
  • Before ketamine, Brekke could only think about making it through the day.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The young waiter, high on ketamine, grabbed the wheel from Kendall and steered the car into a river.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2019
  • She was then held captive for six days in Italy, where she was given ketamine, stripped and handcuffed.
    — Katherine Lam, Fox News, 16 July 2018
  • These aren’t patients abusing ketamine.
    — Michael Alvear, STAT, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The team found that ketamine had a similar effect on the astrocytes in mouse brains.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Some telehealth companies will send patients at-home oral ketamine.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Clair has helped nine patients return to Kadima for more ketamine sessions.
    — USA Today, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Employees said ketamine was rarely used at the practice and diazepam was never used at the practice.
    — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Once the ketamine took hold, his mother took him to experience her birth and showed him the afterlife.
    — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • It was modeled after the drug ketamine, an anesthetic that has been used for many years to treat depression.
    — David E. Carpenter, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The ketamine studies went off like a flare in the darkness, visible for miles and making headlines across the world.
    — Benedict Carey, STAT, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But the coroner did not rule out that the chokehold, in addition to the ketamine, may have contributed to his death.
    — NBC News, 15 Sep. 2021
  • He was placed in a chokehold and paramedics injected him with the powerful sedative ketamine.
    — Amy Forliti, chicagotribune.com, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Paramedics later arrived at the scene and a medic gave McClain ketamine to sedate him.
    — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 26 June 2020
  • Researchers have discovered that ketamine, a drug of choice for club-goers for decades, can be used to fight severe cases of the blues.
    — Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • The search of Gornik’s house also turned up ketamine and other unidentified substances.
    — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Most of the ketamine was in powder form, which could raise the risk of being adulterated with deadly drugs such as fentanyl.
    — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • More versions may come in the future to detect other drugs like ketamine or Rohypnol.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • On ketamine, the second, sustained phase of brain activity was no longer present, and responses to the air puffs changed.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 4 June 2025
  • Searches of their homes turned up heroin, crack cocaine, ketamine, cannabis, large sums of cash and mobile phones allegedly tied to the drug trade.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The assistant injected Perry with at least three shots of ketamine, which caused the actor’s death.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Voll, Pearce’s attorney, said the women had used ketamine and cocaine at the rave before meeting his client.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The new autopsy concluded McClain died of the too-high dose of ketamine.
    — Ashley Parker and Justine McDaniel, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Again, ketamine had the greatest overlap with NDEs in this type of analysis.
    — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2019

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