Opium

//ˈoʊ.pi.əm//

"Opium" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Religion is the opium of the people.

Neither wine, nor opium, nor tobacco are necessary for people’s lives.

The "Red Dragon" is a well-known gambling and opium den.

What can bound feet, essay-writing and opium have in common?

Opium Wars 101.

An analysis has shown that the remains of his supper left by the stable-lad contain an appreciable quantity of powdered opium.

Karl Marx, a German philosopher and economist, said: Religion is the opium of the people.

Football is the opium of the people.

Death is the opium of losers.

Heroin is the opium of the masses.

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From hence we firſt ſailed to Achin, in the iſland of Sumatra, and then to Siam, where we bartered our wares for ſome arrack and opium, the laſt of which bore a great price among the Chineſe:[…]

Opium is largely used by the Chinese as a sexual provocation, both by men and women.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, […] It is the opium of the people.

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