How to Use performance-enhancing drug in a Sentence

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• Steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs were flooding sports and there wasn’t much of a way to stop them.
  — Les Carpenter, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
• Judge would be the only player to do it who hasn’t been tied to performance-enhancing drugs.
  — Brendan Kuty, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
• The Daily Show host joked that both Biden and Trump should be using performance-enhancing drugs.
  — Peter White, Deadline, 8 July 2024
• When the Padres got back to the postseason in 2022, Tatis was suspended for his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2024
• There has never been a hitter not linked to performance-enhancing drugs with back-to-back 60-homer seasons.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2023
• There is no evidence that Biden has used or plans to use performance-enhancing drugs.
  — Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• In his return from a performance-enhancing drug suspension that cost him 80 games, Tatis went hitless at the plate in five at-bats.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
• In January 2008, she was sentenced to six months in jail for check fraud and using performance-enhancing drugs.
  — Brendan Le, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024
• None of the riders in this article have been popped for using performance-enhancing drugs.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 June 2024
• The use of performance-enhancing drugs has been a persistent problem.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
• Bonds' numbers are all linked to performance-enhancing drugs.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 11 July 2023
• There are thousands of players who were using performance-enhancing drugs during the steroid era.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• He was later signed to the New York Jets but didn’t last long due to a four-game suspension after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 30 June 2023
• The quarterback is set to miss the first two games of next season for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing drug policy.
  — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2024
• The ice cream tastes super-buttery, like shortbread on performance-enhancing drugs.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• Ronald Jones, the veteran signed to help fill the void, has been hit with a two-game suspension to start the season for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing drug policy.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Trump is claiming Biden will use performance-enhancing drugs.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
• Twenty-three Chinese swimmers (including some who won gold in Tokyo) were found to have used performance-enhancing drugs.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2024
• There has even been talk of performance-enhancing drugs, which further fuels the pro sports comparison.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024
• About a dozen were determined to be using performance-enhancing drugs.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, ajc, 2 May 2023
• It has long been speculated that Sosa took performance-enhancing drugs during his career, most notably during his home run binge in the late '90s.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2024
• Due to injuries and a six-game suspension for performance-enhancing drugs, Hopkins’ production has dipped over the past couple of seasons.
  — Dj Siddiqi, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• But with weight training bigger than it’s ever been, the use of performance-enhancing drugs has exploded in parallel.
  — Longreads, 7 June 2024
• Several online users defended the young athlete, and many noted that there’s a stark difference between the use of steroids (a performance-enhancing drug) and weed.
  — Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 22 June 2024
• Setting aside the specter of performance-enhancing drugs, athletes have pushed limits through advances in equipment and training science.
  — Emily Giambalvo, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• Hopkins, who turns 31 in June, is now a free agent after a tumultuous three-year run with the Cardinals when injuries and a suspension for performance-enhancing drugs forced him to miss 15 games in the last two seasons.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
• If a player tests positive for performance-enhancing drugs, the suspension is 80 games for a first offense and one season for a second offense.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• Bolt earned a total of eight gold medals in his career (his ninth was rescinded after a relay teammate was found to have used performance-enhancing drugs) with a number of wins in the world championships.
  — Matthew Acosta, Peoplemag, 1 July 2024
• Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramírez again lagged, hurt by suspensions for performance-enhancing drugs.
  — Ronald Blum, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramírez again lagged, hurt by suspensions for performance-enhancing drugs.
  — Ronald Blum, Hartford Courant, 24 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025