How to Use addicted in a Sentence

addicted

adjective

• Too many of us have bought into the notion that teenagers are passive, addicted to their phones and lacking civic awareness.
  — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• People can become addicted to opioids through long-term use, or misuse, of prescription painkillers.
  — Emily Bazar, sacbee, 17 Apr. 2018
• Others are mentally ill and/or addicted to alcohol or drugs and refuse overtures by the city to better their plight.
  — J. Harry Jones, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 May 2018
• The outlet reported that the teenager was a reserved outsider whose father died at a young age and whose mother was addicted to drugs.
  — Sean Neumann, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024
• Harper is bright and mad and addicted to pills, and gives Gough a chance to dive head-first into another complicated character.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 12 Apr. 2018
• Twitter mainlines breaking news for addicted journalists.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 6 May 2018
• Most are not stereotypical homeless junkies, but regular folks – including lots of baby boomers – who have become addicted to their prescription painkillers.
  — Joyce Wiswell For The Knee Institute, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• By his 20s, King was homeless and addicted to alcohol and drugs.
  — CBS News, 10 Mar. 2022
• His mother is addicted to drugs and in the past has stolen his money and medications.
  — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
• Studies have found that from about 8% to up to 25% of pain patients on opioids become addicted.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 9 Jan. 2020
• In the year 2020, Jenny Eastwood became addicted to bad news.
  — Rebecca Renner, National Geographic, 4 Sep. 2020
• Overall, be prepared to shop more and get a little addicted.
  — Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 22 June 2021
• Britt Reid became addicted to painkillers at 14, was arrested twice in his early 20s and spent five months in jail.
  — Joe Drape, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• Reasons for Having a Sugar Addiction Exactly why people might become addicted to sugar is unknown.
  — Jamie Johnson, Verywell Health, 21 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024