How to Use ayahuasca in a Sentence

ayahuasca

noun
  • The quarterback said that doing an ayahuasca ceremony — held in a maloca — with teammates had strengthened their bonds with one another.
    Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
  • Aaron Rodgers says ayahuasca is 'not a drug,' may be 'called' to take it again.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2022
  • It’s called ayahuasca, and the active chemical in it is called DMT.
    National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2016
  • Which is the safest bet: taking that ayahuasca trip, going to a Dead & Co. concert, or buying this T-shirt?
    Adam Rapoport, Bon Appétit, 24 Sep. 2019
  • In this case, the ayahuasca produced faster, better results.
    Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2018
  • This is a drug that occurs naturally in plants and is one of the active constituents in ayahuasca.
    Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Your Lowest Low: Five minutes after the ayahuasca wears off.
    Drew Magary, GQ, 29 July 2017
  • The ticket to have is for an ayahuasca experience in a Soho loft.
    Rachelle Robinett, Bon Appetit, 19 Dec. 2017
  • So far this season, the Niners’ defense has hit like ayahuasca, a.k.a. Aaron Rodgers’ favorite tea.
    Michael Silver, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The same goes for other hallucinogens, like DMT and ayahuasca.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The tourist had to kill the British man in self-defense, the paper wrote — one of several violent incidents linked to ayahuasca tourism.
    Samantha Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Aaron Rodgers: For proving once and for all that ayahuasca is not a performance-enhancing drug.
    Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Was the Packers' celebration about Aaron Rodgers' use of ayahuasca?
    Christopher Kuhagen, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2022
  • This was used by the Supreme Court in 2006 to rule in favor of a church that used ayahuasca, a sacramental tea made from two plants found in the Amazonian rain forest.
    Arit John, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Someone offers me a vape pen loaded with DMT — the main active molecule in ayahuasca.
    Cassady Rosenblum, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2022
  • Using ayahuasca is risky: its impact depends crucially on the brew and the skill and ethics of the person supervising the session.
    Carolina Schneider Comandulli, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Forget about the ayahuasca, forget about the tropical vistas, forget about all that.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Bergling traveled to the Amazon jungle in Peru in summer 2017 to drink the psychedelic tea ayahuasca.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2022
  • In a new study, researchers found the traditional psychoactive drug ayahuasca stimulates the growth of new brain cells in the hippocampi of research mice.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2020
  • During a two-year acting break, Smith vacationed to Peru and went on 14 ayahuasca journeys.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 24 May 2022
  • There was a faint smell of ayahuasca in the air; the house incense is made, in part, from resin left over after psychedelic religious ceremonies.
    David Kortava, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The active chemical in ayahuasca is dimethyltryptamine (DMT).
    Christopher Kuhagen, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2022
  • And what kind of restorative getaway would be complete without a fireside ayahuasca sesh?
    Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 31 May 2019
  • Perhaps a megadose of LSD, or a shroom trip, or one more ayahuasca ceremony will finally heal me.
    Stuart Leach, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2018
  • This entry is the author’s account of an ayahuasca experience in Peru in June 1960.
    Allen Ginsberg, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Feeling charged up on every level after spending most of 2018 in Thailand, Olsen trekked to Bali, then to the Colombian jungle for another round of ayahuasca.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2021
  • According to the Alcohol and Drug Foundation, ayahuasca is drunk as a liquid and can affect a person's thinking, sense of time, and emotions.
    Jason Duaine Hahn, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Mr. Freeman attends a shamanic ceremony in which a man has a fatal reaction to the ayahuasca.
    Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • Researchers who gave ayahuasca to a group of Israelis and Palestinians were optimistic about its potential for peace-building.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Rodgers and Marcus also undertook a different kind of trip in 2022: a three-night ayahuasca ceremony in an undisclosed location with a master shaman.
    Ben Court, Men's Health, 22 Dec. 2022

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