How to Use drug dealer in a Sentence
drug dealer
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That’s how a drug dealer makes his money, on the comeback.
—Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024
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The last stop of the day is the large plot of land where the drug dealer’s house once stood.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
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The plot involves the shooting death of a drug dealer named C.C. Cox.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
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Not certain what to do, they were advised by a local drug dealer to kill two of the men.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
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That's dressing like a L.A. drug dealer, but a rapper didn't dress like that.
—SPIN, 15 Feb. 2023
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Signe knows a drug dealer, the jittery Stian (Steiner Klouman Hallert), who can get anything for you on the dark web.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Apr. 2023
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Police say that case was a murder-for-hire by a drug dealer who claimed Williams stole drugs from him.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 8 Aug. 2023
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Shawn Lewis of North Chicago was once a drug dealer and a gunshot victim.
—Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
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Cantu has claimed that a rival drug dealer killed the two over money.
—María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
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Fez is an area drug dealer and close friends with the show’s lead character Rue, played by Zendaya.
—Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 31 July 2023
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The pair, who played a chemistry teacher turned methamphetamine cook and a drug dealer, were on hand for the statue's debut in 2022.
—Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
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Amid things finally looking up for him, Bode learned that he got framed for being a drug dealer at the prison camp.
—Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 4 Aug. 2023
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David Kowal — painted Lynch as a common drug dealer who sold pot to teenagers and carried a backpack filled with cash.
—Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
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About a decade later, in 1989, he was fatally shot by an Oakland drug dealer.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 17 May 2024
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Prosecutors claim Cantu killed the pair while trying to steal drugs and cash from Mosqueda, who was a drug dealer, and Kitchen.
—María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
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The aforementioned wastrel friend, now a drug dealer, asks Mike to do him a favor: Deliver a briefcase of pot to a hotel room.
—Time, 11 Aug. 2023
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But Cantu claimed rival drug dealer killed his cousin in a dispute over money.
—Albinson Linares, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
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Meanwhile, Carrasquillo described his father as a drug dealer who was in and out of jail and trained him to cook crack cocaine at just 12 years old.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023
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Zhang, in turn, recruited another drug dealer, Antony Abreu, to pull the trigger.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 23 May 2024
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Her son was not a drug dealer, Becker said, but did have disputes over money with his former roommate.
—Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 31 May 2023
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In the film, a mid-level drug dealer (Leklou) dreams of having a new life, but his mother (Adjani) has gambled away his savings.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 22 May 2024
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On the way back from a house call, Barbara drives upon a crime scene where a drug dealer and buyer are both wounded and incapacitated on the side of the road.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2024
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Three friends get invited to a drug dealer's birthday party, but things soon go haywire when one of them ends up with drugs in his backpack that armed thugs want to take.
—Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 22 Apr. 2023
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One of them is now the CEO of a big pharmaceutical company, another is a doctor and a third a drug dealer.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
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Before launching his bank robbery spree, Scurlock was a drug dealer.
—Emily Blackwood, Peoplemag, 5 June 2024
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Ray Liotta’s drug dealer character meets a grizzly end at the claws of Cokie.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 28 Feb. 2023
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The inmate blamed Alexis’ disappearance on a high-level drug dealer, whose name also was blacked out.
—Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
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Washington had accompanied Mizell on a trip to Baltimore, where a drug dealer refused to work with him.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024
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Co-authored with Yusuf Jah, the 225-page paperback is a readable and remorseless advertisement for Davis’ life as a drug dealer.
—John L. Smith, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
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Refn’s directorial debut, tells the gritty tale of a small-time drug dealer in Copenhagen’s criminal underworld.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2024
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