NICOTINE in a Sentence

Learn NICOTINE 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.

Example sentences for NICOTINE, such as:

1. Now that women have taken to tobacco we live in a bath of nicotine.
2. That worries the department because of the addictive nature of nicotine.
3. As he held out his hand to Holmes, I perceived that it was also stained with yellow nicotine.
4. Although he wished to break the nicotine habit, he found himself impotent in resisting the craving for a cigarette.
5. In one of more recent vintage, a Philip Morris researcher compares nicotine to cocaine in terms of its addictive properties.

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 Meanings and Examples of NICOTINE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nicotine
 n.  an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco
Classic Sentence:
1  Now that women have taken to tobacco we live in a bath of nicotine.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
2  As he held out his hand to Holmes, I perceived that it was also stained with yellow nicotine.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
Example Sentence:
1  That worries the department because of the addictive nature of nicotine.
2  Although he wished to break the nicotine habit, he found himself impotent in resisting the craving for a cigarette.
3  The Massachusetts Department of Public Health measured the nicotine yield of different brands between 1998 and 2004 and found a worrying increase across the board.
4  Scientists used a type of scan, known as positron emission tomography, to show that just one hour of exposure to second hand smoke in an enclosed area can allow nicotine to reach the brain.
5  In one of more recent vintage, a Philip Morris researcher compares nicotine to cocaine in terms of its addictive properties.