Addict

//ˈæd.ɪkt//

"Addict" in a Sentence (18 examples)

You could say that Mrs. Smith is a television addict.

I'm a TV addict.

He is a heroin addict.

The addict died from a drug overdose.

I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

You're a drug addict like me!

You are a drug addict like me!

He's a bread addict.

The drug addict had to undergo rehabilitation.

He's a meth addict.

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a heroin addict

He is an addict when it comes to chocolate cookies.

Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active).

A stressful environment in which there is ready access to drugs can trump a low genetic risk of addiction in these animals. The same may be true for humans, too. And that’s a notion many find hard to believe: Just about anyone, regardless of baseline genetic risk, can become an addict under the right circumstances.

They addict themselves to the civil law.

Having resided some time in this place, we returned to the other country-house which we had left, where lord B— addicted himself so much to hunting, and other male diversions, that I began to think he neglected me […].

That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.

His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.

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