How to Use addicted in a Sentence

addicted

adjective

• 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
• Why should this effect prove so helpful to the depressed, addicted, and anxious?
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 14 May 2018
• Babies born addicted to opioids cost the U.S. health care system more than half a billion dollars a year, a new study finds.
  — Dennis Thompson, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2019
• How could a kid so loved and alive get addicted to a surgical anesthetic?
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 June 2024
• Soon after, Hunter fell off the wagon and became addicted to crack cocaine.
  — Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
• No one knows what’s really going on over there, but one thing is for sure: Ye is addicted to drama.
  — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2024
• That film premiered in August 2019 at Telluride and the narrative soon became that no one else could have played the abused and addicted screen icon.
  — Whitney Friedlander, Variety, 28 Oct. 2023
• Barbara Siegman and Michele Wood, mother and daughter, were searching for a 34-year-old named Jackie, who is homeless and addicted to drugs.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2024
• Other circumstances that increase vulnerability include having addicted or mentally ill parents; witnessing violence; losing a parent; or experiencing a life-threatening illness, accident, conflict or disaster.
  — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024