Sample Sentences foropium (auto-selected)
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Today, other drugs have replaced opium for most medical uses.opium = a powerful narcotic
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The illegal trade of opium has been a major source of conflict in some regions.
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Perhaps the opium had gone bad—perhaps she'd smoked too much this time.† (source)
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As he watched, Rat said, it made him think of some weird opium dream.† (source)
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I saw Second Wife koutou to First Wife, bowing with deep respect while offering her more opium.† (source)
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The dining area had a darkened, opium-den ambience, in contrast to other Chinese restaurants in the city.† (source)
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In the house on Desert End Road, which had the super-expensive cable television package my mother would never let us get, he drew the blinds against the glare and sat smoking in front of the television, glassy as an opium addict, watching ESPN with the sound off, no sport in particular, anything and everything that came on: cricket, jai alai, badminton, croquet.† (source)
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She takes two matchhead-sized portions of opium flakes with a pinch of tobacco and drops the mix into the hookah's bowl.† (source)
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I would pace, waiting for him, turn the television on and then off, dab behind my ears with perfume, Opium it was.† (source)
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Already the hospitals were worrying about the scarcity of quinine, calomel, opium, chloroform and iodine.† (source)
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His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirits seemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision—that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation—that leaden, self-balanced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his most intense excitement.† (source)
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Sometimes it looked like a French bordello, or a Victorian opium den, or the inside of a spaceship.† (source)
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Thinking, ...Himalayas, yak butter, opium dens, and he said, "Well, the Scilly Isles in particular."† (source)
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The doctor gave him some opium, but the pain seemed to reach him right through it.† (source)
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I meant to swallow the tablets and drink the opium as soon as the Germans tried to open my door.† (source)
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Well, damn few of us did, even during the Opium Wars.† (source)
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