Example sentences for: overdose

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

  • President Clinton accused the fashion industry of glamorizing heroin . After reading about a photographer who died of a heroin overdose after selling pictures of emaciated, vacant-eyed models, Clinton argued that such images have encouraged young people to take up the habit.

  • It turns out that Mr. Ed, the talking horse, died of a drug overdose.

  • Sheen recently overdosed on cocaine and methamphetamine, the 32-year-old actor's third overdose, according to the Star . A few months earlier, Sheen's father, actor Martin Sheen, and other family members tried to get Charlie to go to the Promises rehab center (where Brynn Hartman had reportedly been treated), but he refused.

  • After 24 h, the monkey was re-anesthetized with intramuscular ketamine and euthanized with an overdose of intravenous pentobarbital.

  • Critics call Gregory ( Selena ) Nava's latest pop-star biopic of doo-wopster Frankie Lymon a sort of "comic Rashomon of rock-and-roll" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ). Lymon, who became a star at 13 and died of a drug overdose at 25, married three women without divorcing any of them; only after his death did the three find out about one another.


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