DRUG in a Sentence

Learn DRUG from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

259 example sentences for DRUG, such as:

1. This new drug's potency is not yet known.
2. They're hailing it as the new wonder drug.
3. The drug acts on the central nervous system.
4. A drug treatment program was Ron's salvation.
5. She encountered Guy Pollock at the drug store.

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 Meanings and Examples of DRUG
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drug
 v.  use recreational drugs
 n.  a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  "That is the same drug that I was always bringing him," said Poole; and even as he spoke, the kettle with a startling noise boiled over.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
2  The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prison-house of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
3  The power of the drug had not been always equally displayed.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
4  In short, from that day forth it seemed only by a great effort as of gymnastics, and only under the immediate stimulation of the drug, that I was able to wear the countenance of Jekyll.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
5  And that was what they all wanted, a drug: the slow water, a drug; the sun, a drug; jazz, a drug; cigarettes, cocktails, ices, vermouth.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
6  As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
7  I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
8  Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
9  For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
10  That's all right: it's a queer-acting drug.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
11  The drug gave her a momentary illusion of complete renewal, from which she drew strength to take up her daily work.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
12  She encountered Guy Pollock at the drug store.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  Once she kidnapped me and drug me to the Methodist Church.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  The story was threshed out in Dave Dyer's drug store, with Sam Clark, Kennicott, and Carol present.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  In the same city, last May, a white man outraged an Afro-American girl in a drug store.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  A drug treatment program was Ron's salvation.
17  The new drug has great significance for the treatment of the disease.
18  Several alleged drug lords are to be put on trial.
19  They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
20  Mental disorders, drug use and hypnosis can all cause people to hallucinate.
21  The effects of the drug naturally wear off within a few hours.
22  They're hailing it as the new wonder drug.
23  This new drug's potency is not yet known.
24  They claim that the new drug normalizes blood pressure.
25  Severe migraine can be treated with a drug which constricts the blood vessels.
26  The drug exerts a powerful effect on the brain.
27  The drug works by increasing levels of serotonin in the brain.
28  This research seems to give/lend some validity to the theory that the drug might cause cancer.
29  The drug acts on the central nervous system.
30  The drug has only a restricted commercial use.