How to Use addicted in a Sentence

addicted

adjective

• Lark ended up on her own, addicted to crack on the streets of Dallas.
  — Author: Charles Wohlforth, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Dec. 2016
• The child was born addicted to drugs and is dealing with a myriad of health issues.
  — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2017
• In those states, many poor people addicted to opioids still have little or no access to treatment.
  — Abby Goodnough, New York Times, 30 June 2017
• The child they had been offered was born addicted to opioids and even at two days old was suffering from withdrawal.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 25 May 2017
• Once, my parents had to evict a couple when the man became addicted to drugs and started abusing his girlfriend.
  — jsonline.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Some folks become addicted to working, working out, eating or smoking.
  — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 27 July 2017
• Then, he was injured playing football and became addicted to prescription pain pills.
  — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 13 July 2017
• And many who become addicted to these medications move on to a cheaper and more dangerous black market drug: heroin.
  — Jon Kelvey, Smithsonian, 13 Jan. 2017
• Her daughter, 27, is addicted to heroin, after becoming addicted to painkillers prescribed after the birth of one of her children.
  — Staff Report, Cincinnati.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Why are so many of us addicted to even the idea of fame?
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• A lot of my friends are kind of addicted to their phones.
  — Elizabeth Chang and Kelly Glass, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2023
• Many athletes, after all, are addicted to the thrill of the chase.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024
• That is when the addicted were forced to turn to black-market pills and street heroin.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
• Still, she is turned on by the feeling of being captive and addicted.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• At the time, Joshua's mother was addicted to drugs, and his father had drifted away from home.
  — Michael Rezendes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2019
• Low, low rates are the Fed’s lot, as people nowadays are addicted to cheap money.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2020
• Her mother shares that she was born a drug-addicted baby, abused as a child, and in the foster care system for the first eight years of her life.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 26 June 2019
• Some sold the pills on the streets; countless others became addicted.
  — John Caniglia, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2019
• Oscar was homeless and addicted to drugs for nine years.
  — USA Today, 13 Jan. 2023
• Winder had become addicted to pain pills and died of a heroin overdose.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• In both states, people addicted to drugs and alcohol were and are being bought and sold.
  — Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 16 Apr. 2024
• The selling of organs is a drug to which the Chinese health system has become addicted.
  — John Rossomando, National Review, 11 Feb. 2022
• At the time, Joshua’s mother was addicted to drugs, living on the streets of Greenwood, and his father had drifted away from home.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019
• Phan had become addicted to meth after an older white client gave it to him.
  — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2020
• The people of Pierpoint are addicted to the cycle itself.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024
• Jane has thought long and hard about why some people from the same background become addicted and others don't.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2018
• Paul said that Gonsor also gave the boys Adderall, and one became addicted to it.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 29 July 2021
• Gjonaj quickly became addicted to the high of huge wins.
  — Jeff Maysh, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2022
• Shutting down the roughly 50 vape shops in Denver won’t be the silver bullet that keeps the next generation of Coloradans from getting addicted to nicotine.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 9 Dec. 2024
• After the Civil War, thousands of veterans became addicted to morphine and opium, which were used to treat battle injuries and illnesses.
  — Richard A. Friedman, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Feb 2025