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Example sentences for "drug"

Lexicographically close words:
drudgeries; drudgery; drudges; drudging; drue; drugged; drugget; drugging; druggist; druggists
  1. Then the green and red lamps of the drug store cheered me with their promise of aid, for the doctor lived next door.

  2. Engineers are a drug on the market here--and every one of 'em a crook.

  3. Twenty thousand chests of opium were handed over to the viceroy (who destroyed the drug by mixing it with quicklime in huge vats); and the prisoners were set at liberty.

  4. Shops for the sale of the drug are not to be closed until the tenth year.

  5. Though under the ban of prohibition, this drug was smuggled into every bay and inlet, with scarcely a pretence of concealment.

  6. Most of the mandarins are infected by it; and the licensed culture of the poppy has made the drug so cheap that even the poor are tempted to indulge.

  7. Jim ran to the drug store, and, getting a bottle of mucilage, he returned and poured it over the ruffled hair of the unpopular citizen.

  8. Well, going into the drug store I carelessly left the package of money lying on the seat of my carriage, and when I came out again it was gone.

  9. But he stopped at a drug store and put his last dime in the telephone box so he could talk to Miss Mydas without being bitten by the dog.

  10. Abandoning the drug clerk, John lifted Millie in his arms and kissed her, for, next to his wife, nearest his heart was the younger brother.

  11. Over the telephone John was having trouble with the drug clerk.

  12. The tickets were put on sale in the hardware store, in the drug store, in the grocery of Mr. Sam Gordon, and in other places about town.

  13. So they stopped in the drug store and Mr. Brown talked to the police station on the wire.

  14. Hadn't we better stop at the drug store," she asked soberly, "and get some medicine?

  15. He stopped at the drug store and bought a tooth-brush and a tube of paste.

  16. The drug bill at our hospital was a very heavy one, because all these new remedies at their first introduction are necessarily costly from their limited demand.

  17. Being a man grateful for any little services his assistant rendered him, he repaid him in various ways, one of the most valued rewards being the privilege of trying "any new drug you may take a fancy to upon any of my patients, Mr. Mole.

  18. The drug was given to him in the communion cup.

  19. I went with my niece one day to St. Paul's Churchyard to choose a gown, but it was too much for me to be in a draper's shop when the brokers' drug sales were just beginning.

  20. The shops are partly ruinous, and those that remain in order are used as cafés, in which, however, it is said that the dangerous drug may still be procured.

  21. This patient, like most of the others, was ignorant of what drug was being used and of what effects might be expected, so suggestion played no part.

  22. He who drinks of this drug will be armed for that day against all the assaults of sorrow, and will not shed one tear, though his father and mother were to die, no, not though he saw his brother or his son slain before his eyes.

  23. I have poured into the wine a drug of wondrous potency and virtue, which was given me in Egypt by Polydamna, the wife of Thon.

  24. We's ameanin' tuh go tuh town, jest as soon's we heahs from ther people in Washington, as these drug men hes gone ter see.

  25. But the drug effect held, and he continued briefly to doze through his eating and reading.

  26. But so slow was the action of the drug that dawn had broken ere his eyes closed.

  27. It was the same when he showered and dressed, and, though the drug had brought him little forgetfulness during the night, he felt grateful for the dreaming lethargy with which it possessed him through the morning.

  28. HOCUS, to drug a person, and then rob him.

  29. Poetry is not only a drug on the market, it is a drug that narcotises and debilitates all true manhood.

  30. Shortly after arriving in the town I began to negotiate in a business like way for the purchase of one of the drug stores.

  31. Taking for example a high class confectionery store, drug store or cigar store.

  32. I have in mind a certain wholesale drug house which employs approximately one hundred men the year round.

  33. It starts at the soda fountain in Warner's Drug Store on Bridge Street in Catskill, New York, and it ends at the soda fountain in Bennett's Candy Store on Bridge Street in Bridgeboro, New Jersey.

  34. When we got through shopping, we went to Warner's Drug Store for sodas.

  35. This chapter isn't a part of the hike, so really the story doesn't begin till you get to Warner's Drug Store.

  36. They included a rare drug only to be obtained from South America.

  37. Such a drug is not available to the general public, is it?

  38. I didn't know I was keeping a 'drug store' till this minute, you see.

  39. Brother had spent the morning playing with Nellie Yarrow and Ellis Carr, and Nellie's aunt had taken them to the drug store for ice-cream soda.

  40. I'd like to keep a drug store when I grow up.

  41. Go to the drug store; that's where Doctor Yarrow gets all his pills and things.

  42. As to treatment, it may be broadly stated that all authorities and schools are for once practically agreed:-- First, that we have no known specific drug for the cure of the disease.

  43. There is no known drug which is specific in any one of them, though their course may be made milder and the patient more comfortable by the intelligent use of a variety of remedies, which assist nature in her fight against the toxin.

  44. That is the open road to the morphine habit and drug addictions of all sorts.

  45. But it is the only government, so far as I am aware, which virtually forces the drug on its people by insisting that it shall be purchasable in localities which might otherwise escape its malign influence.

  46. But what else could you expect in a country where the drug is sold to anyone who has money to pay for it; where it is one of the Government's chief sources of revenue?

  47. The opium farmers either keep opium dens themselves or sell the drug to anyone wishing to buy it, just as a tobacconist sells cigars and cigarettes.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drug" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    analgesic; anesthetic; anoint; antidote; article; balm; balsam; benumb; blunt; candy; chloroform; cure; deaden; doctor; dope; dose; drop; drug; dull; elixir; entrance; feature; freeze; herb; hypnotize; item; junk; kayo; leader; lull; magnetize; medication; medicine; mesmerize; mixture; narcotic; numb; oil; opiate; paralyze; physic; pill; powder; preparation; prescription; product; proprietary; remedy; salve; seconds; sedate; special; spike; staple; stuff; stun; stupefy; syrup; tisane; ware