How to Use addicted in a Sentence

addicted

adjective
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  • Why are so many of us addicted to even the idea of fame?
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • A lot of my friends are kind of addicted to their phones.
    — Elizabeth Chang and Kelly Glass, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Many athletes, after all, are addicted to the thrill of the chase.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024
  • That is when the addicted were forced to turn to black-market pills and street heroin.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Lark ended up on her own, addicted to crack on the streets of Dallas.
    — Author: Charles Wohlforth, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Dec. 2016
  • Still, she is turned on by the feeling of being captive and addicted.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • At the time, Joshua's mother was addicted to drugs, and his father had drifted away from home.
    — Michael Rezendes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The child was born addicted to drugs and is dealing with a myriad of health issues.
    — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Low, low rates are the Fed’s lot, as people nowadays are addicted to cheap money.
    — Larry Light, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Her mother shares that she was born a drug-addicted baby, abused as a child, and in the foster care system for the first eight years of her life.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 26 June 2019
  • Some sold the pills on the streets; countless others became addicted.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Oscar was homeless and addicted to drugs for nine years.
    — USA Today, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Winder had become addicted to pain pills and died of a heroin overdose.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • In both states, people addicted to drugs and alcohol were and are being bought and sold.
    — Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The selling of organs is a drug to which the Chinese health system has become addicted.
    — John Rossomando, National Review, 11 Feb. 2022
  • At the time, Joshua’s mother was addicted to drugs, living on the streets of Greenwood, and his father had drifted away from home.
    — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Phan had become addicted to meth after an older white client gave it to him.
    — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The people of Pierpoint are addicted to the cycle itself.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Jane has thought long and hard about why some people from the same background become addicted and others don't.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Paul said that Gonsor also gave the boys Adderall, and one became addicted to it.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 29 July 2021
  • Gjonaj quickly became addicted to the high of huge wins.
    — Jeff Maysh, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Toward the end of the Sixties, Faithfull was homeless and addicted to heroin.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Because a delay in treatment can prove fatal for those addicted to opioids, time is of the essence.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 6 Oct. 2017
  • By his 20s, King was homeless and addicted to alcohol and drugs.
    — CBS News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The aging of the NFL’s elite quarterback corps doesn’t bode well for fans who have become addicted to the high-scoring shootouts of recent years.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
  • His mother is addicted to drugs and in the past has stolen his money and medications.
    — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Studies have found that from about 8% to up to 25% of pain patients on opioids become addicted.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 9 Jan. 2020
  • In the year 2020, Jenny Eastwood became addicted to bad news.
    — Rebecca Renner, National Geographic, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Tisdale didn’t know for a long time that her bright, funny son had become addicted.
    — Leslie Renken, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018
  • After all, a quick logline — two friends grow addicted to the heroin-esque touch of an alien and end up in a throuple with him — doesn’t even scratch at the surface of the genre-bending horror-comedy.
    — William Earl, Variety, 28 Jan. 2025

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