How to Use drugged in a Sentence

drugged

adjective
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  • The drugged Krendler comments on how good his brain tastes and smells.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
  • Viserys, drugged and distant, didn't respond at the time.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Strawberry was too tired, too drugged, or simply too out of it from her surgery the previous day to protest.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The woman alleges that Tiny gave her a drugged drink, and T.I. gave her a massage and attempted to perform a secual act in the hotel room.
    — Jordan Moreau, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The girl was able to tell investigators that she was bound to a bedpost for nearly a week and given alcohol to keep her in a drugged state.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Later on, Armond, in a drugged haze, enters Shane’s room, drops his trousers, and squats, straining out a memento in his rival’s suitcase.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Nowhere is this perhaps more evident than in the glitzy emirate of Dubai, whose leader kidnapped, drugged and imprisoned his own daughter.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
  • Citizens branded as subversives were stripped, drugged and tossed from airplanes into the Río de la Plata.
    — Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • However, Ronstadt gave up after several hours when Sill appeared too drugged out to play.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Checkpoints, which are placed in locations that are most likely to deter drunk and drugged driving while also providing the greatest safety for officers and the public, have been shown to lower DUI deaths and injuries, police said.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The likely causes for the surge include reckless and dangerous driving like speeding, drunk and drugged driving, and distraction, which were rampant on U.S. roads during the Covid-19 pandemic, even though overall driving was down.
    — Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 24 May 2021
  • California decriminalized marijuana possession in 2011, and with that change researchers saw impacts on things like the drop-out rate and drugged driving.
    — Ryan Randazzo, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2020
  • These men were then supposedly held captive, drugged, and eventually transported to the waterfront, where they were sold to ships as unpaid laborers; some worked for several years before finding their way back home.
    — Gulnaz Khan, National Geographic, 31 Oct. 2020
  • For decades, police administered the drugs freely (though judges ubiquitously rejected the drugged testimony as invalid).
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2021
  • After an investigation, authorities in Palm Springs recommended that local prosecutors charge Price with the rape of a drugged victim, according to the report.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Opponents of the legalization plan, however, raised concerns about youths using marijuana, negative health effects from using high-potency cannabis drugs, as well as the lack of details related to plans for enforcing drugged driving laws.
    — David Robinson, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2021

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