How to Use coke in a Sentence
coke
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The ‘60s: there’s pot and acid, and then there’s coke and heroin in the ‘70s in New York.
—Henry Everingham, SPIN, 14 Feb. 2023
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Some of them may or may not involve doing coke on live TV.
—Vulture, 8 May 2023
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Like having a coke isn’t really going to change your life.
—Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023
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The titular bear, inspired by a real-life bear, eats a bunch of cocaine after some coke dealers heave it from the sky, and goes on a rampage.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
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And then there are all those songs that are downright unpleasant, about child molesters or coke dealers or abusive partners.
—Chelsea Leu, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2022
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Throw on your purple sweatshirts, snort some coke, make some questionable choices, and rejoice!
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2022
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All of the pollutants are byproducts from the manufacturing of high-carbon coke used to fuel blast furnaces at steel mills.
—Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
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An engineer may have to build in a settling time or change the rate of a flow to account for foam formation (consider the difference between pulling a beer and pouring a coke).
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
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Months later, the company idled its coke ovens because of major equipment problems.
—Max Blau, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2023
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But the coke contained fentanyl, and Christina died shortly after ingesting it.
—Alexandra Rockey Fleming, PEOPLE.com, 6 Apr. 2022
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Robbie, in the closest the movie has to an anchoring central performance, cranks the Eliza-Dolittle-on-coke brashness to 11, making her Harley Quinn look like a study in subtlety.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 23 Dec. 2022
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At the plant, coal was baked in superheated, low-oxygen coke ovens to remove impurities from the coal to produce fuel for blast furnaces.
—Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 14 July 2023
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Like, wow, this bear — which, in real life, ended up dead after eating all this coke — ended up being sort of collateral damage in this war on drugs.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2023
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Today, fierce fighting around the eastern city of Avdiivka has forced Europe’s largest coke plant, another of Mr. Akhmetov’s properties, to shut.
—Constant Méheut, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
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Further south, Russian attention has been focused for months on the town of Avdiivka, and its massive coke plant, both of which Russia has been attempting to encircle.
—Maria Kostenko and Alex Stambaugh, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
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Other drinks have flavor profiles that recall espresso martinis, rum and cokes or gin martinis.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
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When tragedy strikes, the men receive unexpected second chances — and a magical briefcase of never-ending coke — thanks to a woman who looks vaguely familiar.
—Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2023
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Goncalves said the company is also making changes to be more environmentally friendly, using less coke in the steel making process and increasing its use of scrap metal.
—Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 11 Feb. 2022
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Resplendently fuzzed, a white shirt framing his chest hair, a kilo of coke (probably) up his nose, Peters appears after Gary starts a water bed company.
—New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021
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The Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed changes to the way toxic air pollution is controlled at coke plants.
—Max Blau, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2023
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Then, researchers tested various mutations that strengthened the enzyme’s weak points while retaining its coke-busting properties.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2014
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Former company towns and other neighborhoods closest to the still-functioning coke plants and other large industrial facilities still show evidence of decades of heavy industry.
—Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 1 Dec. 2021
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In the past few decades, kiddie cartoon purveyors like DreamWorks and Illumination have attempted to bridge the gap by serving up cuddly characters spewing pop culture reference-laden dialogue, penned by Wesleyan grads with a minor coke problem.
—Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2023
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No wonder, then, that Kendall chooses to distract himself with congratulatory tweets and his 15 minutes of grudging goodwill from outside observers, temporarily replacing his coke highs with dopamine rushes of social-media sanctimony.
—Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2021
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Previous targets included landfills, toxic dumps and hazardous waste incinerators scattered around Lake Calumet, companies that stored huge piles of lung-damaging petroleum coke on the Calumet River and others that handle brain-damaging manganese.
—Michael Hawthorne, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2021
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The ‘60s: there’s pot and acid, and then there’s coke and heroin in the ‘70s in New York.
—Henry Everingham, SPIN, 14 Feb. 2023
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Some of them may or may not involve doing coke on live TV.
—Vulture, 8 May 2023
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Like having a coke isn’t really going to change your life.
—Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023
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The titular bear, inspired by a real-life bear, eats a bunch of cocaine after some coke dealers heave it from the sky, and goes on a rampage.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
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And then there are all those songs that are downright unpleasant, about child molesters or coke dealers or abusive partners.
—Chelsea Leu, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2022
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