How to Use spliff in a Sentence

spliff

noun

• Ji-Yoon mocks his beard and his sports coat and his spliff.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021
• Also, there was confusion over whether the tweet was a joke, since April 20 is known as Weed Day, a time to fire up a fat spliff.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
• But the stuff about cops at the stadium rounding up every hippie with a spliff?
  — oregonlive, 11 June 2020
• What’s worse, lighting up a spliff or stealing the nuclear codes?
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• And as in past, his collection left at least one observer willing him to cut loose, smoke a spliff or go on a tear.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2016
• Later, a spliff-smoking Rasta bicyclist rides by, hears calls for help, and blows a huge hit of smoke into the air holes.
  — Ed Symkus, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2018
• On one occasion Tom Junior and his friends were smoking a spliff in the sitting room while Meghan was in the nursery crying.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
• Indeed, even the most ardent spliff-and-lift advocates admit that the practice isn’t for everyone.
  — Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2018
• Finicky treatments make psychedelics trickier to scale than cannabis, which can be self-administered in spliffs, cakes and other forms.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• Those whose roots-music love runs deeper, meanwhile, soaked up a full day’s worth of sun and sucked in a seemingly endless spliff’s worth of Americana.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 July 2022
• Sure, the idea of walking into a store to buy a spliff seemed so far-fetched that imagining it was akin to arguing about who would win a fight between Batman and Boba Fett.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 30 Oct. 2021
• Nothing beats a spliff coupled with a spiritual podcast on the way back to my hotel room, because the buzz is so strong after playing.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2021
• Thirty grams of marijuana is about an ounce, which is essentially enough pot for 60 joints, or spliffs, and about half as many blunts, depending on how much is rolled into the tobacco paper.
  — Gregory Pratt, chicagotribune.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• In an early scene, Theresa (Dunst) prepares a spliff for her bedridden mother (Susan Traylor) that’s laced with a couple of drops of a mysterious substance that will put her out of her misery.
  — Boyd Van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2017
• In a section about smoking a spliff on the balcony, a friend’s pointed question about Pico’s ex turns into a far-out conversation about extraterrestrials, as though the poem were getting stoned as well.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• Coffee house menus in Amsterdam are dominated by what Americans call spliffs, or joints rolled with marijuana and tobacco.
  — Dan Adams, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2019
• Nevermind that Musk was careful to note, post-spliff, that marijuana is lousy for productivity, and that nothing, nothing, nothing matters more to Elon Musk than productivity.
  — Devin Gordon, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2019
• Having helped her sick mother die using a spiked spliff, Theresa, who works in a medical-marijuana dispensary, descends into a detached reverie of hallucinatory grief.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024