How to Use inhalant in a Sentence

inhalant

noun

• The medicine is now available as an inhalant.
• Aerosols, solvents, gases and nitrates prescribed for chest pain are misused as inhalants.
  — Kashmira Gander, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2018
• Drugs like inhalants can change the structure of the nervous system by destroying myelin: the fatty substance that coats the nerves like insulation.
  — Stmichaelschool, cleveland.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• Brent knew his only daughter had been fighting an addiction to inhalants.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2017
• Those worlds collide when George and a handful of other creatures are exposed to an inhalant that sets off a genetic chain reaction.
  — Mick Lasalle, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Apr. 2018
• Outside the commercial world, nitrous oxide is best known for its recreational use as an inhalant for getting high.
  — Tony Long, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2007
• In addition, 4 percent of Lincoln and Emerson eighth-grade students reported using inhalants in the past year, according to the data.
  — Heather Cherone, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
• Sudden cardiac death from fatal cardiac arrhythmias has been reported even in teen inhalant abusers.
  — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 26 June 2017
• Early theories speculate that the illness might be caused by toxic products that vaporize the nicotine or other inhalants, though this has yet to be proven definitively.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• My friend Paul Salopek produced dozens of investigative stories, about abuses by the border patrol, the inhalant epidemic, the lives of transvestite prostitutes in Juarez.
  — Steve Almond, Longreads, 3 Apr. 2018
• One theory, as of yet unproved, is that illnesses may result from substances that are thought or known to be toxic in vaping products, which use heat to vaporize nicotine and other inhalants.
  — Matt Richtel, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• The state agency said nearly twice as many Americans abuse prescription drugs than use cocaine, hallucinogens, heroin and inhalants combined.
  — Courtney Perkes, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2017
• But there was something else, something familiar, drifting up and hitting me like an intoxicating inhalant.
  — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
• These include oral and topical medications, inhalants and injections.
  — Josh Kovner, courant.com, 19 May 2017

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024