Example sentences for: opium

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

  • His heir, Humayun, preferred opium and astrology to complex State affairs; he was driven out of India into Persia by General Sher Shah, who proved to be a much more able ruler.

  • However, the wily British soon thought of an alternative commodity: opium (see page 41).

  • Earlier this week, the Pakistani paper Dawn ran an editorial about reports that Pakistani poppy growers are planning to recultivate opium on a bigger scale because they haven't received promised compensation for switching to other crops.

  • His attempts to limit the opium trade met with resistance by the Chinese in Bau, who revolted.

  • Then, at about the turn of the 19th century, wily foreign traders thought of an alternative medium of payment — opium.


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