Example sentences for: melvoin

How can you use “melvoin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After Melvoin died, the Associated Press reported that the heroin he shot was 60 percent to 70 percent pure.

  • My bet is that when the medical examiner releases his report on Jonathan Melvoin next week, it will disclose that the smashed pumpkin was drinking booze while shooting, a fatal error that pre-'50s addicts almost never made.

  • (On the night that Melvoin shot that 60 to 70 percent heroin and died, Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin shot the same junk and survived.)

  • The Washington Post Page One obit on Melvoin claimed--without substantiation--"a resurgence in heroin use in the '90s," while the New York Times asserted that the "heroin vogue has been building since at least 1993 and shows no signs of ebbing."

  • The Washington Post 's story about Melvoin reported that heroin purity has risen from "as low as 4 percent in past decades to upward of 70 percent today," while the Los Angeles Times ' piece noted that heroin had gone "from 4 percent [purity] in 1980 to 40 percent in 1995."


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