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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As he watched, Rat said, it made him think of some weird opium dream.† (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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Perhaps the opium had gone bad—perhaps she'd smoked too much this time.† (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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Thinking, ...Himalayas, yak butter, opium dens, and he said, "Well, the Scilly Isles in particular."† (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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The doctor gave him some opium, but the pain seemed to reach him right through it.† (source)
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She replied in a froggy voice from deep in a trance of opium or hashish.† (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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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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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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There was relief all around, but soon the thread had been overtaken by a multi-participant debate about the efficacy of that war, U.S. foreign policy in general, whether or not we won in Vietnam or Grenada or even WWI, and the ability of the Afghans to self-govern, and the opium trade financing the insurgents, and the possibility of legalization of any and all illicit drugs in America and Europe.† (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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