How to Use performance-enhancing drug in a Sentence

performance-enhancing drug

noun
  • Judge would be the only player to do it who hasn’t been tied to performance-enhancing drugs.
    — Brendan Kuty, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
  • Steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs were flooding sports and there wasn’t much of a way to stop them.
    — Les Carpenter, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Bonds' numbers are all linked to performance-enhancing drugs.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 11 July 2023
  • There is no evidence that Biden has used or plans to use performance-enhancing drugs.
    — Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • Further afield, the use of performance-enhancing drugs is rare but not without precedent.
    — Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • They were linked to performance-enhancing drugs during their careers.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Trump is claiming Biden will use performance-enhancing drugs.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
  • Xenon is also banned by the world anti-doping agency as a performance-enhancing drug.
    — Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 4 June 2025
  • None of the riders in this article have been popped for using performance-enhancing drugs.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 June 2024
  • The use of performance-enhancing drugs has been a persistent problem.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
  • There are thousands of players who were using performance-enhancing drugs during the steroid era.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • About a dozen were determined to be using performance-enhancing drugs.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, ajc, 2 May 2023
  • The ice cream tastes super-buttery, like shortbread on performance-enhancing drugs.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • There has never been a hitter not linked to performance-enhancing drugs with back-to-back 60-homer seasons.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Beckham served a six-game suspension last year for failing a performance-enhancing drug test and did not sign with a team after that.
    — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • That same year, he was suspended for 50 games for using performance-enhancing drugs.
    — Doc Louallen, ABC News, 14 July 2025
  • There has even been talk of performance-enhancing drugs, which further fuels the pro sports comparison.
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024
  • Jones will miss the first two regular season games because of a performance-enhancing drug suspension.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Rafael Palmeiro, atop the list with 3,020 hits, would be a fourth if not for issues with performance-enhancing drugs.
    — Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 May 2026
  • Barger has been tested for performance-enhancing drugs yearly since and has not faced further discipline.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Anavar is the name-brand of an oral synthetic steroid sometimes used to promote weight gain and is widely considered a performance-enhancing drug.
    — Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Sweat, 30, did not disclose what caused his positive test for performance-enhancing drugs and said the result came as a surprise.
    — Ryan Canfield Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The competitors can take performance-enhancing drugs.
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 22 May 2026
  • In his return from a performance-enhancing drug suspension that cost him 80 games, Tatis went hitless at the plate in five at-bats.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Sosa said that the apology in his statement from December was not about using performance-enhancing drugs.
    — Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Setting aside the specter of performance-enhancing drugs, athletes have pushed limits through advances in equipment and training science.
    — Emily Giambalvo, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • That spring, Marte was suspended 80 games for a positive test for performance-enhancing drugs.
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Bonds was charged with lying to a grand jury about receiving performance-enhancing drugs and went on trial in 2011.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Twenty-three Chinese swimmers (including some who won gold in Tokyo) were found to have used performance-enhancing drugs.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2024
  • Many suspect Clemens used performance-enhancing drugs during his career to give him an advantage over his opponents.
    — Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2025

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