How to Use oxycodone in a Sentence

oxycodone

noun
  • His drugs of choice later in life were opioids, such as oxycodone.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Officers think at least four of the pills were oxycodone.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Her fight against drugs wasn't limited to oxycodone, of course.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • For many of my co-workers, oxycodone and hydrocodone were the painkillers of choice.
    — Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
  • In many cases it is blended with heroin or sold as oxycodone tablets.
    — Sandra Dibble, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • On the street, heroin can be one-fifth the price of opioid pills like hydrocodone and oxycodone.
    — Al Baker, New York Times, 12 June 2017
  • There was pain, but nothing a tapered dose oxycodone couldn’t manage.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Pills are sometimes disguised to look like other painkillers, like oxycodone.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Many times it is blended with heroin or disguised as oxycodone, posing a greater risk.
    — David Hernandez, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 June 2018
  • Harper went on to note that the tests are not designed to detect oxycodone, methadone, or clonazepam.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
  • The doctor gave her intravenous Tylenol and four oxycodone tablets.
    — New York Times, 30 May 2021
  • The drugs were identified as 30-mg pills of oxycodone, the statement reads.
    — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 Sep. 2019
  • For more than a decade, her mother, Jamie Clay, 28, had been hooked on oxycodone.
    — Catherine Saint Louis, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 July 2017
  • Court records show Billow had two oxycodone pills at the time of her arrest -- one hidden in her bra and one in her purse.
    — Ken Brown, Cincinnati.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • In hindsight, Puerta said, Daniel was getting what the teen thought was oxycodone.
    — Jennifer Griffin, Fox News, 23 June 2022
  • These are the same type of opioid receptors that trigger the effects of drugs such as morphine and oxycodone.
    — David Kroll, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In the early days of the crisis, prescription opioids such as oxycodone were driving a sharp rise in deaths.
    — Ethan Brooks, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Four in 10 of these deaths involved prescription painkillers such as hydrocodone and oxycodone.
    — Karen Sibert, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Percocet is the brand name of a drug that's a combination of oxycodone and acetaminophen.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The child, who was not identified, bought and consumed a pill with a label consistent with the painkiller oxycodone.
    — Josh Campbell, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Tate was also charged with a felony OWI and possession of oxycodone.
    — Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Mills’ pregnant wife and children were held at gunpoint while Baker ransacked the home for oxycodone pills.
    — Fox News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Skaggs had both fentanyl and oxycodone in his system at the time of his death, according to the report.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 2 July 2019
  • Then again, Jack Daniel’s and oxycodone are legal in our state, but marijuana isn’t.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 May 2018
  • Police documents state the man had THC and oxycodone in his system at the time of the crash.
    — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The mussels in which traces of oxycodone were found were from Seattle and Bremerton area harbors.
    — NBC News, 25 May 2018
  • Three days later, he was found on his mother’s couch in Jamaica, Queens, dead of an overdose of that drug and oxycodone.
    — Tyler Blint-Welsh, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • There was the team trainer busted by the DEA for peddling oxycodone to players.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2022
  • In three of the 18 locations, the mussels then tested positive for trace amounts of oxycodone.
    — Christina Capatides, CBS News, 24 May 2018
  • There were oxycodone pills that tested positive for heroin and over-the-counter cough medicine, and Vicodin tablets that turned out to be fentanyl.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023

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