How to Use addicted in a Sentence

addicted

adjective

• 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
• Some who grew addicted to pills moved on to heroin, another opioid that was often cheaper.
  — Jeanne Whalen, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2017
• Prescription drugs have been blamed as a key factor in getting people addicted to opioids, leading them to harder drugs such as heroin and fentanyl.
  — David Anderson, The Aegis, 10 Jan. 2018
• Cook said that officers will confiscate any drugs found in possession of the addicted person seeking help, but assured that no charges would follow.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 23 Dec. 2017
• Either the region had become addicted to sparklingly clean kitchens or a more nefarious pattern had been established.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
• These foul-weather friends are – perhaps unknowingly – either addicted to the drama or so attached to their own unhappiness that any joy on your part feels like a threat.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024
• Alas, even with his son washed up in hospital, even while processing the revelation that his son is addicted to drugs, Robert’s most salient emotion is his jealousy.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
• His sections of the story are stronger: Versace is just a man, in thrall of pleasure but just about the only person onscreen who is not toxically addicted to it.
  — Daniel D'addario, Time, 11 Jan. 2018
• Stacy Usher became addicted to pain pills after a high school soccer injury in Wisconsin.
  — Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 14 Dec. 2017
• Abboud and other vaping defenders have a point that e-cigarettes aren’t just an enticement for kids to get addicted to nicotine, but are also a tool to help smokers quit smoking.
  — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
• Safe Passages encourages people addicted to opiates to get help by simply walking in the front door of the local police station and asking for assistance.
  — Rich Heileman, cleveland.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• The problem isn’t just that Fox News sometimes presents patently false narratives, but that its audience is addicted to it—often to the exclusion of other news sources.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 18 Jan. 2018
• But perhaps because of a genetic configuration, certain people become addicted to it.
  — David Downs, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024