How to Use stoned in a Sentence

stoned

adjective
  • They got stoned at the party.
  • He was stoned on pot.
  • But in the morning, that dastardly alarm clock wakes you from a stoned slumber and something just isn’t right.
    — Mike Adams, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • There is no reliable scientific test to prove someone is too stoned to drive.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • All of that suggests that stoned driving should be a traffic offense, like speeding, not a crime, like driving drunk.
    — Mark A. R. Kleiman, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2018
  • Yet for all of his stoned foolishness, Bob has clearly imparted a real distrust of authority to his kid.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Press releases showed each animal looking a bit stoned, wearing tight black collars affixed with two gray boxes, each slightly larger than a cigarette pack.
    — Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 27 July 2022
  • This version of herself is preserved in amber on Best Coast’s stoned and sunny 2010 debut, Crazy for You.
    — Quinn Moreland, ELLE, 28 July 2023
  • Despite the wrinkles and gray hair of the men playing them, AC/DC’s songs remain timeless slices of crude and rude rock custom made for blasting from the cars of stoned teenagers.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 11 Apr. 2025
  • There was a blithe, mildly stoned look in everyone’s eyes, and most of the women were dressed like gnomes while all the men appeared ergonomically outfitted to climb a cliff face but were instead commuting to their office jobs.
    — Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • And Taylor is hilarious as a very stoned listener to Harvey’s self-justifications.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Unfortunately, amateur recording equipment of the era was difficult to sneak past security, let alone operate properly, and your average Floyd fan was a stoned teenager.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2021
  • The proposal came at a time when the concert industry was still shaking off images from the ‘60s and ‘70s of naked, stoned, sometimes rioting audiences taking over small towns for weekend-long music festivals.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
  • That 2010 initiative went down to defeat, thanks in part to heavy opposition from the California Chamber of Commerce and business groups worried about an uptick in stoned workers.
    — Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Carucci, Dickerson and others in the real estate market said the property likely is owned by one of Kittler’s wealthy clients, who now, like Brady and Gisele once did, has use the yoga studio, a stoned carport with space for up to 20 cars and a gym.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021

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