How to Use steroid in a Sentence

steroid

noun
  • He was accused of taking steroids.
  • Then came the steroid era, which hung over the game for three decades.
    — Paul Dickson, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2025
  • This [win] just takes that idea and then just puts it on steroids.
    — Carson Blackwelder, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • These look like toaster ovens on steroids.
    — Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In short, moral hazard on steroids.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026
  • You get schemed and the schemes are on steroids in the playoffs.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Kyle says that West is just like him, but younger and on steroids.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 June 2026
  • Also, once oral steroids are stopped the new hair may fall out again.
    — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The rides are like Disney’s finest on steroids.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The steroids helped Reid’s lupus.
    — Jason Liebowitz, New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2026
  • My opinion as to steroids users does not waver.
    — Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • Thanks to coding agents, hacking is on steroids.
    — Ruth Foxe Blader, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Instead, there is a sort of heads-up display on steroids.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The doctors started the boy on steroids.
    — Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Steel wool is a scrub pad on steroids, a bristle brush with a vendetta.
    — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appétit, 24 Mar. 2020
  • There are players who abused steroids, served their penalty and are now back in the game.
    — John Nogowski, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2025
  • But something even more potent and still very safe is what’s called the nasal steroid sprays.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The arrangement is thus a sort of free-trade agreement on steroids.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Bonds goes down as one of the game’s all-time villains, and not just because of the steroids.
    — Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The pair were linked to steroid use during their playing careers.
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Think of it as a whirl of happy hours on steroids, often with a check attached.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
  • If the rash cleared up within five days of steroid treatment, that would confirm it.
    — Ashley Vega, People.com, 24 July 2025
  • Power is the first thing to go with age in many hitters – at least in the pre- and post-steroid eras.
    — John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 20 July 2019
  • His family tried steroid creams, wet wraps, bleach baths, and all of the lotions.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Won three gold medals at 2000 Olympics but stripped of medals for steroid use.
    — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Prop bets are the gambling distortion on steroids.
    — Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Our busses took us on some winding roads, (think, the Pig Trail on steroids).
    — Arkansas Online, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Not to mention what's left of the steroid era is still causing problems for it, right or wrong.
    — David Harten, The Courier-Journal, 9 July 2019
  • He was paid $50 per package in return and took some of the steroids for his own use.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
  • This is the Brock Osweiler trade on steroids.
    — Max Dible, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025

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