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Sentence Examples We're both obscurely addicted to odd sports, both had empires, are bellicose, mistrustful of foreigners, and are passionate gardeners. Raving, starving herself, addicted to Seconal and Dexedrine, Tippy makes a dramatic transformation from beautiful to mean. Here, she turns her microscope on a male lover hopelessly addicted to serial seduction and romantic self-absorption. I became so addicted to BBM I actually had to switch to an iPhone to end the madness. My brother had a drug problem, he was addicted to crystal meth and he didn't really know what he was doing at times. He thought he could carry on if he was addicted to methadone rather than heroin. Nevertheless, he was to remain fairly anonymous, financially impoverished, and addicted to methedrine for most of his life. Finally in fear I'd hurt myself or others, a friend sent her science fiction addicted younger sister over with a tote bag full of VHS tapes. Having become totally addicted to waterfall hiking we realized we had best do it safely and respectfully. I was forced to develop this recipe when my source for bialy became unreliable. I had become addicted to these as breakfast food. Much like those addicted to drugs or alcohol, shopaholics experience withdrawal symptoms such as irritability, depression and loss of control. The young doctor suffered blackouts and colleagues discovered he was addicted to the painkiller pethidine. Are you addicted to blindingly boring surfing punctuated by the occasional interesting hit? The 50-year-old did his first jump for charity in 1983 and soon became addicted to skydiving, taking part in a host of competitions. People are so addicted that they eat lunch and dinner in front of the monitor. He was said to be boorish and unmannerly and argumentative and moody and addicted to reading, of all things. The issue of narcs actually getting addicted themselves is another aspect of the film which mirrors real life. Such opponents of the bans say that many smokers are addicted to tobacco and nicotine and therefore need to smoke. He admitted in a nationwide radio broadcast on Friday that he is addicted to prescription pain medication. Even in adolescence, many smokers are addicted to nicotine and would like to stop smoking. Show More Sentences I have every sympathy for those smokers who continue to be addicted to nicotine. The experts at the service explain just how much nicotine is going into you, how much is in one cigarette and why we become addicted. For all their press releases promising watchfulness, the candidates have become increasingly addicted to bundlers. There was a time when only a section of the women population were addicted to the novelettes churned out by several scintillating weeklies. She has become addicted to fried chicken and calorific milkshakes in the last stages of her pregnancy. Jim would go out every night during and that's when I got addicted to all manner of flu pills and I hallucinated cats on the ceiling. We know that many of those addicted to hard drugs commit a large proportion of property crime. The strong fragrance of the special Japanese soybean oil made our mouth water and left us addicted to the cuisine. I've been searching for dead relatives for a year now and I have become completely addicted to all things ancestry. Playing from their own homes, they are becoming addicted to poker, blackjack, one-armed bandits and betting on events such as the Oscars. Physicians who were addicted to opioids most commonly used pharmaceutical opioids, with very few using heroin. Wood suffered from chronic instability in his personal life, and was heavily addicted to opium. Disruption of the metabolism of the orbitofrontal cortex may contribute to compulsive drug intake in addicted individuals. In the past he had been addicted to heroin and crack cocaine but was now trying to get treatment and detox. Fatal overdoses in addicted patients often involve the combination of benzodiazepines and alcohol, with or without opiates. In 1989, the company banned telephone chatlines after discovering people were becoming addicted to them. African-American women who are addicted to illicit substances are disproportionately over-represented in jails, prisons, and treatment programs. She reports that about half of the people with mental illness are chemically addicted. Despite all the benefits of a secure home and a good education he has, for 23 years, been addicted to drugs. Anne Marie was illiterate, addicted to schnapps and immensely superstitious. Show More Sentences He describes himself as addicted to optimism, and his ministry is about getting everyone else hooked on it too. Since her very early childhood, she has been addicted to elocution, imitating the voices and expressions of other people. There are also many records of emperors who were addicted to playing cuju being criticized by officials and other members of the imperial family. The government stopped it, because they know farangs come back anyway, because farangs are already addicted to the Thai women. The study for computing firm Hewlett Packard warned of a rise in infomania, with people becoming addicted to e-mail and text messages. Those addicted to drugs suffer from a compulsive drug craving and usage and cannot quit by themselves. When someone inhales the smoke, they are receiving doses of drugs, and they can subsequently become addicted themselves. Why are these people so addicted to writing letters, and recording their inmost thoughts on tape? In the reception hall, Tibetan furniture, finery and ornaments evoked such alien sentiments that we were immediately addicted to them. I've become slightly addicted to books describing the state of the Interweb about a decade ago. The Florida Cormorant is especially addicted to this practice, and dives and plumes itself several times in the day. Consider, then, a person addicted to a drug such as heroin, who is considering whether to obtain some more of the drug for another fix. Imaginative and sophisticated workouts are evolving to engage dwindling attention spans or cash in on punters addicted to the endorphin fix. Contrary to their romantic image, nomads are not simply footloose people addicted to wanderlust. It's very hard to get over your sugar cravings, but that is what people are addicted to. I am crazy about music and movies and, as a hobby, I am addicted to searching for CDs, VCDs and DVDs in whatever places I can find them. I was addicted to the burgers and the French fries and the pizza and the fried chicken and all those other things out there. Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in Riverside, he was one of seven kids being raised by parents addicted to crystal meth. I recently read somewhere that many fruitarians actually get addicted to all the sugar in fruit. Like a sorcerer addicted to making magical potions, Li changed the formula again and again. Show More Sentences However earthily they like to present themselves, critics and poets alike are addicted to the rhetorical juggling of opposites. I've become more than a little addicted to my Lomo-LCA, a Russian built camera which encourages a kind of Dadaistic way of taking pictures. You will not become addicted to preventive medicines for asthma, even if you use them for many years. Then we see that the emotional state was just a prop to which we're addicted in order to confirm our identity, to hold us together. After reading Monday's story of the 17-year-old York lad addicted to crime, my Evening Press was reduced to little more than tear-stained pulp. The support group for testicular cancer survivors portends the emasculation our society has embraced, wept over, and become addicted to. Having seen many of her students become disastrously addicted to drugs, she determined to kill the drug trafficker. Ricky and Fred are addicted to TV, so the lonely ladies of the house decide to teach them a lesson and disconnect the antenna. Some chronic users become addicted and exhibit severe withdrawal symptoms that require detoxification. Even for the urban couch potatoes addicted to the remote, this might not be doomsday. To begin with, new users to addictive drugs cannot be addicted very quickly. He's also becoming addicted to hang gliding, and he tinkers with bikes and trikes. But Chris slipped into alcoholism and became addicted to cocaine and Ecstasy. Most youngsters abuse drugs and alcohol because they are bored or for kicks and don't realise it until they are addicted. We are already well on the way to being addicted to internet gambling, according to some press reports. At the time of his arrest he was heavily addicted to heroin and funded his habit by selling at a profit to pay for his own drugs. Here was a pretty young woman, with a caring job, who died because she was allergic to a substance she was addicted to. When I was 21 I went to prison for the first time and by then I was addicted to heroin. I know that I personally am only very slightly physically addicted to nicotine. Four percent of the Thai population is estimated to be addicted to the stimulant drug. Show More Sentences He told me that alcohol was a worse thing to be addicted to than any drug, even heroin. Nicola had been addicted to heroin for six years, becoming hooked when a friend offered her the drug. The proposals would force young people addicted to heroin and cocaine to either submit to treatment or face the full force of the law. It is not at all uncommon for babies to be born already addicted to heroin or other opiates. In his third year he dropped out, his concentration was appalling and he was addicted to another drug which was much harder. We are effectively physically addicted to such things as sugar, or carbohydrates, or fats. Both her parents were heroin addicts at the time and she had ended up addicted to crack cocaine. He has been addicted to heroin for several years and is on a drug rehabilitation programme. Being addicted to a substance usually means you're dependent on it to some degree. We estimate that some 20,000 young people are currently addicted to heroin and cocaine. A burglar in adolescence, he was addicted to heroin and behind bars before reaching voting age. She started drinking heavily in her late teens and by the time she was in her twenties she was hopelessly addicted to alcohol. She had become addicted to amphetamines since trying to lose weight five years ago and used small amounts of the drug every day. Ron is perhaps a war addict, but not an adrenalin junkie addicted to the rush of battlefield. I was also addicted to soft drinks so no wonder my teeth are so shot to pieces these days. Technologically it points the way but what it lacks is the kind of feature that makes a user addicted to the phone. David James was famously addicted to computer games back in his Liverpool days. One can lock a child up in a mental hospital because he is addicted to the Internet. I have learned to be spiritual and meditate a lot, and I am addicted to the computer. Children addicted to computers are being sent on camping holidays designed to help them kick the habit. Show More Sentences The reason I had such bad withdrawal symptoms from bread must be because I was, well, addicted. He said it was impossible to put figures on the number of young people addicted to drugs who were involved in crime. As a deadline-driven journalist, I am addicted to the adrenaline rush of last-minute multitasking. Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake. Both Thai and foreign women are becoming addicted to the sport of windsurfing. Smokers in alcohol recovery may be more addicted to nicotine than smokers who don't have a history of alcohol abuse. Within a year, addicted to laudanum and alcohol and grossly overweight, George IV was dead. I knew I couldn't continue shooting heroin forever, and I know now that I can never be addicted again. But there's a train leaving right now, and I've become quickly addicted to not hanging around. When that doesn't work, they get him addicted and drag the information out of him when he's in a delirious state. For the addicted, like Shreya, it is a chance to revisit their old friends and make some new ones. I became independent and to make a long story short, here I am now, living in an apartment, financially stable, and not addicted to drugs. Unlike others of their age, they are not addicted to Western music, nor are they blindly aping any trend as a shortcut to fame. Police were also aware that the victim was addicted to gambling on football, and there was an extra issue of a love affair. Aimed at drug users and their families, the film centres on former drug addicts who were addicted to heroin cocaine, speed and ecstasy. He is ceaselessly trying to spread awareness amongst the addicted against the hazards of different addictions. She also becomes addicted to painkillers that she claims are for backache and headaches. My son became addicted in the hotel to sumptuous baklava of flaky pastry, honey and nuts. While the meth market seems to be growing globally, fewer than 15 percent of people who try the drug will become addicted. Negotiations are the heroin of Westerners addicted to self-delusion. Show More Sentences Not all of them are insufferable battleaxes addicted to garish jewellery and Vegas weddings, but none of them were smart enough to realise that they were being sent up. Such a tour can break the resilience of the most addicted shopaholics. He is addicted to his demimonde of Damon Runyon hoods and eccentric celebrities. In fact, the motivations behind body modification are closely linked with those of smokers and skydivers, who get addicted to the pleasurable adrenaline buzz. I can not believe a nation as addicted to drinking, hunting, fighting and riotous merrymaking as the English didn't have some rousing folk music in the past. He claims his foray with smack was explicitly for research and meant to be short-term, but he became addicted. In November 1933, a new provision was added to the criminal code that provided the option of forced intramural treatment for mentally disturbed and addicted offenders. She becomes a devotee of death, addicted to the most shuddery of Grimms' fairy tales and a book for the terminally ill called A Hundred Ways to Die. I've recently become addicted to falafel, which joins Vietnamese Pho soup, gelato, Ethiopian injera bread, pad thai, and schnitzel as some of my favourite things to eat. I have never yet met anyone psychologically addicted to the drug, and of course it isn't possible to be chemically addicted to it, and I know a whole load of stoners. In later years I came to think it was worthless, that it was better to start without Freud and certainly not go through the genuflections that Freudians seem addicted to. I've become addicted to checking the tote board every few hours. Once addicted at a vulnerable age, the argument goes, young users grow into adults who find the addicting substances difficult or impossible to resist. They are amazed that people, otherwise of sound mind, are addicted to it. Kashmir offers not only a great shooting locations, it is also where he gets addicted to saffron rice cooked on hot coals, and mincemeat with cream and almond sauce. I was just so toxically addicted to affirmation I would do anything to get it. They've grown addicted to the cash flow from sales fueled by financing and hefty rebates, and they've trained customers to expect a steady diet of the givebacks. He dealt drugs, was addicted to cocaine by the time he was 13, and found himself constantly in trouble with the law. This cult of drug-pushing doctors, with their co-dependent relationships with addicted celebrities, must be stopped. Only by embracing Hollywood cliches could he attract the widest possible audience, which is now addicted to them. Show More Sentences They are addicted to preserving their own piggish way of life. I would say that they were the most addled, confused, stoned, and addicted people I have seen, at least at the ER level. This means your body is addicted to it and that is a lot harder to shake. I fear that there are people who have it in them to be compulsive gamblers but do not know it, and could become addicted if there was a casino on their doorstep. He was addicted to tranquillisers and codeine tablets, taking up to 60 per day at one point, after he became hooked on the barbiturates during a period of depression. Not mention, I was horribly addicted to iced mochas and hot chocolates. If you're addicted to science books, pick up this short and eminently readable book and enjoy the bizarre tale of fractals and strange attractors. She played a woman physically allergic to shirts with sleeves, but terminally addicted to acid shades of lippie that clashed dreadfully with her chosen hair dye. She was addicted to drugs and alcohol and she had been for many years. I was hooked, addicted to what I understood to be real life, a life that awaited me outside my yeshiva walls. There are tens of thousands of people in this province addicted to the machines, which are to be found in almost every seedy bar in Montreal and elsewhere. For example, as a result of their lower overall economic status, many addicted women turn to prostitution as a means of supporting their drug habit. Since coming out and admitting it to myself, I've also become addicted to checking out trailers for forthcoming chick flicks. They are slow-moving and blubberous and thus were an abundant source of oil for a world not yet addicted to petroleum. Townshend briefly became addicted to heroin before cleaning up early in 1982 after treatment with Meg Patterson. Except for the nose candy, I'm addicted to all of them, to a greater or lesser degree. To the use of lots and auguries, they are addicted beyond all other nations. Before that, Chinese only used opium in medicinal purposes, so therefore the Wanli Emperor could not have been addicted in smoking opium. Cows addicted to the habit of sucking themselves should be taken in hand as soon as they are known to be self-suckers. The majority of taxaholics are particularly addicted to the most destructive taxes, being the taxes on capital. Show More Sentences When you upgrade your standard of living, you become addicted to that standard of living. In the case of Greece, there can be little question that, as critics have charged, Greece is seemingly addicted to welfarism. Where I come from a wowser used to be a person addicted to not consuming alcohol. These shopaholics are addicted to buying things, regardless of whether they want or need them. The Times said those who are truly addicted can cheat by hitting the escape key. The six youngsters, and a dozen others who were addicted to solvent abuse, were flown out for treatment. By episode three, she's addicted to drugs and muffing lines on her sitcom to such an extent that she's worried about losing her job. Marilyn, who was addicted to barbiturates, overdosed in 1962 on Nembutal and chloral hydrate. I KNOW several people, mainly elderly, addicted to one or other of the benzodiazepine tranquillisers eg. John Stith Pemberton was a pharmacist addicted to morphine after using it to treat a wound he received as a Confederate officer in the Civil War. She said she knew she was in a position of trust but was addicted to strong painkiller co-codamol. He said he started drinking in 2007 and became addicted to alcohol, barbiturates and sleeping pills. There's the rottweiller who is addicted to TV, the spaniel who thinks he's an opera singer and an iguana who has mood swings. What I am addicted to is affirmation and validation from women. Prescription painkillers are extremely addicting, and teens who self-medicate for relatively minor pain can become addicted quickly. Ever since Mary Quant swung onto the sixties scene with her pelmets, the mini has been keeping women addicted to exercise classes. In the US, there are even digital detox retreats where people who feel addicted to their gadgets can unplug from technology. As a result of being addicted to heroin, she was falling apart. Basic logic has gone out the window for video-game addicted Ameritards. Abdulkader also said that many schoolchildren are getting addicted to suwayka and another chewable tobacco derivative called betel leaf and areca nut. Show More Sentences Jahangir ruled the empire at its peak, but he was addicted to opium, neglected the affairs of the state, and came under the influence of rival court cliques. Other recreations included bridge, to which he was addicted, and drink, which, friends and enemies alike, considered sometimes became close to an addiction. By locating the addicted person in these categories, the construer places the addicted person into superordinate categories shared by other persons. She had also previously overdosed on cocaine, to which she was addicted, traumatising her young daughter who found her on the floor and presumed she was dead. There's the Heart of Dixie Advice for the lovelorn and addicted. And it's not without reason that you find complete magazines published for the titillation of dedicated compers, as they call those addicted to entering various competitions. Are you sure you're not addicted to this cloak-and-dagger double life just as much as the happy ending, even though getting caught is your biggest fear? Parents of drug addicted students have demanded the authorities of institutes, which take high fees, to take steps for prevention of this epidemic drug addiction. A BOOZY rabbit has become addicted to the fruit machine at a Midland pub. When Audrey Dixon was prescribed tranquillisers after a bout of post-natal depression more than 30 years ago, she had no idea she would become addicted to them. Examples from Classical Literature In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. They do not wear gloves, nor are they addicted to scent on their pocket-handkerchiefs. Hairy races may have been more recently domesticated, or bred for their hairiness, or less addicted to an indoor life. Like most savage tribes they are passionately addicted to spiritous liquors, and seek to obtain it by any means in their power. When he does this the teacher may note his particular speech defect, or the special form of baby talk to which he may be addicted. You would find a Locofoco majority as much addicted to Class Legislation as a factitious aristocracy. It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. Dryden and Congreve, however, appear to have been addicted to the pleasant pastime. From similar motives I did not invest in the lounge suit to which an Englishman is addicted. In the flesh he had been a crabbed and crotchety ancient addicted to drink. They are ingenious and nimble, much addicted to indolence, obliging to strangers, but implacable when once disobliged. Even Fleetwood's devil, much addicted to cape and sword and ladder, the vulpine and the gryphine, rejected it. The sheikh and his supporters are much addicted to bakshish, which enables many a culprit to escape punishment. They are the masons of the mind, a race of builders, addicted to a workmanship of their own. Persons addicted to the use of tobacco or alcohol and to dissipations of various kinds may become predisposed to enteralgia. He was remarkably truthful, and was neither dissipated nor addicted to drink. Many College Professors show no quarter to those whom they ascertain to be addicted to this predigested form of information. A 48-year-old woman who claims to be addicted to shoplifting has been remanded in custody. But President Ubico is not hopelessly addicted to one brand of fascism. How should a young child addicted to bed-wetting be managed? Show More Sentences Like other dwellers in the south, he was a man of sober habits and moderate desires, but fond of external show, vain, and addicted to display. Baroness Thatcher, marking 30 years since she was elected PM, witheringly suggested Scots were spongers addicted to public hand-outs. A girl of nine years was brought to my office addicted to self-abuse. The Duke of Norfolk of Foote's time was much addicted to the bottle. The Whites settled in South America are likewise addicted to geophagy. A PAIR of drug addicted thugs who went on a robbery spree targeting female shop assistants were jailed for a total of 16 years. I warn you against the danger of becoming addicted to fads and isms. Yet another is addicted to the Grey Worm and another to the looper. And then, he is addicted to drink, and his mind is unhinged, like that of most people who have taken more than is good for them for years. But they were more addicted to horse and donkey flesh if obtainable. When addicted to drink, the working class cannot do what must be done. Here is just the opportunity for any one addicted to petty larceny. When drug users search out drubs, even when they know it's wrong, they are addicted. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. You can speed recovery by taking in more fluids, but hair of the dog only works if it relieves alcohol withdrawal symptoms, which suggests you are becoming addicted. Have republics in practice been less addicted to war than monarchies? The 'Save Young Generation' campaign saw women saying that they are seriously concerned about rural youth getting addicted to drugs and consuming of other intoxicants. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of addicted? Words that rhyme with addicted What is the adverb for addicted? What is the adjective for addicted? What is the noun for addicted? Translations for addicted Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words addict add fuel to the fire adders Adderall adder addendums addicted to addicting addiction addictions addictive addictively 8-letter Words Starting With a ad add addi addic addict addicte