How to Use mainline in a Sentence

mainline

1 of 3 verb
  • His addiction grew worse when he began mainlining.
  • In a city that mainlines major brands, d3 is a welcome change.
    — Laura Ratliff, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2018
  • And as a way to mainline into a viewer’s emotions, horror can hardly be beat.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022
  • And no one seemed to be given pause by the fact that the brand’s most famous son had mainlined a fatal speedball just across the street.
    — Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 1 May 2017
  • And no one seemed to be given pause by the fact that the brand’s most famous son had mainlined a fatal speedball just across the street.
    — Benjamin Wallace, VanityFair.com, 19 May 2017
  • With a month or so in which to mainline asparagus, there’s no need to worry about tomatoes or zucchini.
    — Yotam Ottolenghi, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • That used to mean something (like mainlining caffeine and cursing the weekend for ending).
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 11 May 2020
  • Ideal conditions to mainline some headlines before starting the day.
    — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • There are rappers who mainline the aesthetic and vibrating energy of punk.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Consider mainlining something that doesn’t feature on the diet plan.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The story may as well have been conceived by a 10-year-old after mainlining Fruit Roll-Ups.
    — Paul Schrodt, Esquire, 5 July 2017
  • That both doctors vouched for the health of a man who mainlines McDonald's and likes steak and meatloaf is incredible.
    — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 1 May 2018
  • Those infective eggs hatch larvae, the larvae pierce the intestinal wall, and these larvae mainline their way via the blood to the eyes and central nervous system.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2015
  • The first two factors were mainlined into my young soul by the staff at Janus House; by my Masuk English teacher.
    — Cyndy Etler, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2025
  • This pipeline, which runs under the Baltic Sea, gave Germany the option to mainline Russian gas.
    — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • And that's not including the tanks of fuel these vehicles mainlined during performance testing and hot lapping at a racetrack.
    — Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Ivah’s voice, from word one, like mainlining vulnerability—only, patterned like a poet’s dream.
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2025
  • To make crossing paths with Henry more bearable, Alex mainlines several expensive glasses of whiskey.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Start mainlining Centrum Silver, Boise.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Given the past 72 hours the Norwegian producer has just careened through, his need to mainline caffeine is understandable.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The company, at its core, encourages hyper-centralization, ensuring that teens around the world can mimic the same dance or mainline the same 15-second snippet of a song.
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2021
  • But simply mainlining Reddit's conversations for AI training purposes will come with a price, the exact amounts of which should arrive in the coming weeks.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Hook up a bunch of preschoolers to brain scanners and show them the movie, and the data would probably look similar to scans of a bunch of Fox News nightmare uncles mainlining Hannity.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • This era of Jane Remover—the music, which mainlines the noisiest impulses of SounDC, the discourse—is brasher and more acidic than ever.
    — Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 10 June 2026
  • Is this high-context content going to flummox the average viewer who hasn’t spent the last 25 years mainlining every single piece of good superhero content, let alone all of the so-bad-it’s-good or downright lousy stuff?
    — Chris Baker, WIRED, 25 July 2024
  • If Perry meant to mainline herself into the cultural conversation, mission somewhat accomplished.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2024
  • That requires forking over grocery money from whatever is left of the cash Trumplandia is mainlining from kids’ dinner plates to the Billionaire Boys Club.
    — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Would Rory and Lorelai, devoted high-culture haters who prefer ordering pizza and mainlining Cop Rock to nosing around museums, ever be caught dead here?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Before any stars turned up to rehearse for Sunday's ceremony, crew members were busy putting the finishing touches on the elaborate production, rushing around wearing headsets and mainlining coffee from craft services.
    — Amy Kaufman, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The season is long, and cold, and involves a lot of staying in bed on your laptop until 1 pm and also mainlining Oreos while half-watching The Holiday on your mum’s sofa and scrolling Instagram.
    — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2024

mainline

2 of 3 adjective
  • Lin will stick around for two more sequels, which will allegedly end the mainline series.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 June 2021
  • Pilots at the mainline carrier had not received the same bonus pay until this new deal.
    — Dallas News, 7 July 2022
  • In any event, these mainline churches are not the same as those of the suburban heyday of the sixties.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 16 July 2021
  • Not to mention that the newer mainline games are even available in English.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Overall about 10% of its mainline flights have been canceled over the four-day period.
    — Pete Muntean and Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Loki seems not to be the Loki who got killed in the mainline continuity.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Losing three mainline players -- one of them college football’s best lineman -- would be a tough blow for any program.
    — oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2020
  • But the nation’s third-largest mainline Protestant church intends to make up for that loss starting this weekend.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2023
  • In 1994, the mainline Churches of Christ severed ties with the group.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Two new mainline Pokémon games are out today, but Pokémon fans aren’t talking about these games’ vast new open worlds.
    — Jhaan Elker, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • For mainline Protestants like me, the discontent has been less visible.
    — Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Tsujimoto said the focus really came from a desire to create a mainline game that stands apart from the rest.
    — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Some of the available videos document journeys on multitrack, mainline straightaways, which cleave a wide swath through the land.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The third highest were mainline Protestants at 40% and white Catholics at 36%.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 June 2022
  • But, as the complaint notes, there are phones in every mainline housing module, meaning a lack of phone access should not have been an issue.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Gone are the tropes of the previous mainline games, replaced with an open world set in the ancient past, heavily based on feudal Japan.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The mainline Bethesda team that’s making Starfield is responsible for some of its biggest hits.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • Most Catholics – as well as mainline Protestants — take a more holistic view of life as sacred than do white evangelicals.
    — Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The looks were bolstered by pieces plucked from the mainline pre-spring Boss collection produced by Ingo Wilts and his team.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2021
  • But most mainline Protestant churches still aren’t hosting in-person worship and many Catholics still haven’t returned to the pews.
    — Jean Hopfensperger, Star Tribune, 2 Nov. 2020
  • In the last quarter of the 20th century, mainline Protestantism faded from public view.
    — Diana Butler Bass, CNN, 10 July 2021
  • Select knitwear pieces from the capsule appeared on the runway alongside the designer’s mainline collection.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Still, even among mainline Democrats, just 39 percent would like to see Biden as the nominee; 50 percent think not.
    — Gary Langer, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Development of every mainline GTA title has taken place at the site.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The Skywalker Saga is a silly and accessible send-up of the nine mainline Star Wars films.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 4 June 2022
  • The Skywalker Saga is a lighthearted and easygoing send-up of the nine mainline Star Wars films.
    — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2022
  • But with the arrival of Starfield as a new science fiction property from Bethesda, that’s left the fate of mainline Fallout games unclear.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • More than half of Evangelicals plan to attend, with 36% of Catholics and 27% of mainline Protestants.
    — Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Just over the border in Baileys Crossroads, there’s a push to build senior housing on the excess land adjacent to a mainline Protestant church.
    — Washington Post, 1 May 2022
  • Regional flight attendants typically earn less than mainline flight attendants.
    — Ted Reed, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025

main line

3 of 3 noun
  • One of the city's main lines of defense was—well, this works.
    — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Attached is a prussic-knot loop that slides up and down this main line.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 11 Sep. 2020
  • ByteDance has been in games for a few years, but not as a main line of business.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The waiting time for the main line has been dropping throughout the day.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Many magnet fishers wrap duct tape around the excess rope and their main line.
    — Ben Demchak, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2022
  • But Gunter is on the main line of growth spreading north from Dallas.
    — Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • At least three hydrants dot that main line in front of the senior citizens home.
    — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The tube is slid onto your main line first during rig construction.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Pinch the braid tag and main line between your fingers and being pulling slowly.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 6 June 2024
  • Instead, pinch the overhand knot and main line together with one hand.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 18 Oct. 2023
  • When this happens, your main line twists, and that twisting can travel far, even all the way to the reel spool.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The 9-piece collection also comes in at a lower price point than her main line.
    — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Nov. 2019
  • As far as a solution to our big number two problem, there are two main lines of thinking.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2026
  • During the course of the year, production will move to the main line and begin ramping up.
    — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The wastewater is then returned through one main line back into the sewer system.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Bergdorf’s will also carry DVF’s main line this fall.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Start by sliding an egg sinker or sinker slide up your main line, then connect a barrel swivel to the end of the line.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2023
  • In fact, even prior to this launch, many fans of the brand have opted for dresses from the main line for their nuptials.
    — Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 26 June 2020
  • Gildan’s main line of business is clothing such as T-shirts, underwear and socks.
    — Sandrine Rastello, Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2018
  • Ukraine’s army is now locked in a plodding but vicious and bloody fight along two main lines of attack through farm fields and tiny villages.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • This is on the same main line where work had already been done to fix an issue on the liquid hydrogen supply line.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • To set up, tie the main line to one of the swivel loops and add about 18 inches of leader to the other two.
    — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The rupture caused the property’s main line to be dry and exposed since Tuesday.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In May 27, a spill was reported from the main line north of Kamloops.
    — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 11 June 2018
  • At the same time, Assad would need to clear out pockets of resistance behind the regime’s main lines.
    — Andrew J. Tabler, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2013
  • Higher prices are not Apple’s main line of defence against revenue losses.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • Several split shot were attached to the leader, spaced about 18 inches apart, and a float was added to the main line.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2018
  • The answer to that question has become one of Democrats' main lines of attack against Hovde.
    — Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Look for authenticity to be a main line of attack against Platner.
    — Caroline McCaughey, Boston Herald, 4 June 2026
  • The diminutive iPhone has been the dream iPhone of many, a smaller handset with similar specs to the main line of phones.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 21 June 2021

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