How to Use opium in a Sentence

opium

noun

• Afghan opium is the source of much of the world’s heroin, and half of it comes from Helmand.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2017
• China fought the same war against the British opium trade for the same reasons.
  — WSJ, 12 July 2022
• In a word, no, and not even heroin, opium, and methamphetamine can fill the gap.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Aug. 2021
• Afghanistan is also the world’s main source of opium and heroin.
  — Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2017
• His mother, Chen Yuqing, worked as a maid for the owner of an opium den.
  — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• The rural area produced the bulk of the country’s poppy crop, used to make opium.
  — Fox News, 14 May 2021
• Learn about the outlaws who were hanged at the courthouse and what went on in China Mary’s opium den, just for starters.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
• To top it off, the police had raided his apartment and found an opium pipe.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• Not even heroin, opium, and methamphetamine will be able to solve the problem.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Aug. 2021
• To rebalance the trade deficit, British merchants sold opium to the Chinese.
  — Ro Khanna, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
• As a result, about the only thing the country does not import is opium.
  — Rod Nordland and Fahim Abed, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2018
• The Taliban, funded in large measure by the opium trade, now controls wide swaths of Afghanistan.
  — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 23 May 2018
• For years, most of the harvest would be smuggled out in the form of bulky opium syrup that was refined in other countries.
  — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2017
• In the 18th and 19th centuries, Qing emperors issued orders to try to ban the import of opium.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2016
• On the dance floor, guests ingest opium with lolling tongues, then variously pop their booties and walk a quadrille.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2019
• In opium, Britain saw a way in, forcing the drug onto the Chinese market against the wishes of the Manchu emperors.
  — Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 1 July 2019
• The route is also key to global opium shipments coming out of Afghanistan.
  — Munir Ahmed and Jon Gambrell, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
• Dana’s grandfather spent a decade in the mid-1800s in China as a trader (most likely in opium).
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Some money comes from the opium trade and drug dealing, or other crime such as smuggling.
  — Derek Hawkins, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2021
• Some money comes from the opium trade and drug dealing, or other crimes such as smuggling.
  — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2021
• The opium fug transports Mallo into his past, raking over the choices he's made on the road to greatness.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
• Why is our morning shot of caffeine legal, but a nightcap of opium tea not?
  — Lucy Jakub, The New York Review of Books, 3 Sep. 2021
• In the 19th century Opium Wars, Britain forced China to allow the opium trade.
  — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2016
• One of them was James Monroe, to whom she was briefly married in 1941 and who introduced her to smoking opium.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
• Hundreds of foreign troops were killed in the province, which is also a major opium hub.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2021
• The poppy flower plant produces opium, which is what led the researchers to test the late Bronze Age artifacts for drug residue.
  — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
• What sounds like a zany idea dreamt up in an opium den could have dire repercussions for the future of our democracy.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2021
• Many of them have funded their fighters and patronage cliques from the opium profits for years.
  — Time, 17 July 2023
• In the 1840s, opium ceased to be the primary driver of clipper-ship design, replaced by gold.
  — Randall Fuller, WSJ, 19 July 2018
• Weak people took drugs such as opium to escape; strong people took methamphetamine to feel even stronger.
  — Peter Andreas, Time, 7 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024