How to Use overdose in a Sentence

overdose

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  • She died from a cocaine overdose.
  • Amongst the five boroughs, the highest-rate of overdose deaths were in the Bronx.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
  • And that’s just the cost to put out the immediate fire — the overdose.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Drug overdose deaths reached a record level in the US this spring.
    — Mark Morales, CNN, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Finally, he was told the young man died from a drug overdose.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
  • In 2022, Nashville had the second-highest rate of overdose deaths in the country.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
  • What if a grandmother had a heart attack or a kid drowned while his team was on an overdose call?
    — Lauren Peace, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Last year, there were nine more deaths than the prior year, with 1,309 fatal overdoses logged.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Opioid overdose deaths recorded by D.C. so far this year are on pace to surpass last year’s record of 461.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The cause of death was later found to be an accidental drug overdose.
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Buckey is the niece of Heath Ledger, who died in 2008 from an accidental overdose.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Some minerals and vitamins can build up in your blood over time and raise your risk of an overdose.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 28 Sep. 2023
  • More new moms die from suicide or overdose than anything else.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The short answer is yes, melatonin overdose can happen.
    — Korin Miller, Health, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The number of people who died from a drug or alcohol overdose in San Diego County plateaued in 2022.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
  • With a little more than two weeks left in 2023, the number of accidental overdoses is expected to rise by the end of the year.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The proud daughter of a former coal miner, Ms. Adkins said she’s witnessed the loss of coal jobs and the influx of opioids in the state with the highest rate of overdoses.
    — Leah Willingham, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Lewis’ 24-year-old friend, whose name was not released in police records, was found dead from a narcotics overdose in his Ellington home on Sept. 4.
    — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • In a Facebook post, authorities explained that the charges stemmed from the death of Jacob Bowers, who died of an overdose on Jan. 11.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Fentanyl was detected in 81% of drug overdose deaths in New York City, according to the data.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Our beloved son, Dex, died of an accidental drug overdose.
    — Caroline Brew, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Lively’s father, Dereck Lively Sr., had died of an overdose in 2011, and the single mother didn’t want her son to become an orphan.
    — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 23 June 2023
  • Opioids are involved in about eight out of 10 overdose deaths, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
  • For example, lives lost to suicide and drug overdoses are at record levels.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Paramedics can start IVs, intubate patients who can’t breathe on their own, and treat overdoses with naloxone.
    — Marion Renault, STAT, 7 July 2023
  • Although the number of overdose deaths in the US has held steady recently, the nation has many more than other high-income countries, research shows.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The actor died at the age 28 of an accidental overdose after filming was complete but before the movie was released.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Also read:Louisville's jail has seen suicides, overdose deaths; Oldham County's hasn’t.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 29 June 2023
  • This is the reason why healthcare providers check your pupils when there is a concern about intoxication or overdose.
    — Troy Bedinghaus, Od, Verywell Health, 17 July 2023
  • Health experts advise the best thing anyone can do to help friends and loved ones with addiction and to combat the epidemic of drug overdose deaths is to carry Narcan.
    — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
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overdose

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  • Police added that the child put the bag in her mouth and overdosed.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 9 May 2023
  • The next week, two other students overdosed at the school.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Not once, in the dozen times she’s been called, has the person overdosing died on her watch.
    — Lev Facher, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The voice on the other end said Marshall had overdosed and been found face down in a puddle.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The city is on track to record nearly as many overdose deaths as last year, when at least 625 people died.
    — Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Leslie Carter, who also appeared on the show, died of a prescription drug overdose at the age of 25.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Hamilton overdosed that night and died in the hospital on May 8.
    — Harm Venhuizen, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
  • About an hour before Parsons called it a day, a man overdosed.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
  • Trina had overdosed and hit her head, or been beaten by her boyfriend (not for the first time), or maybe both.
    — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Hadland said he’s seen an uptick in teenagers and young adults overdosing.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Put the person overdosing on their side with their top leg and arm crossed over the body to prevent choking.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2023
  • The real animal overdosed and died – not so much in the movie version.
    — Brian Truitt, The Courier-Journal, 24 Feb. 2023
  • One of the girls flagged down nearby police, telling them Gorman had overdosed.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 6 Feb. 2024
  • At the time, it was only reported that Adam had overdosed.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The nasal spray will come in a package of two 4-milligram doses, in case the person overdosing does not respond to the first dose.
    — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The state has the nation's most per capita overdose deaths and will receive $83 million as part of the settlement.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2023
  • About three weeks later — back from holiday break — the girl overdosed again.
    — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Start rescue breathing if the breathing of the person overdosing is slow or has stopped.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Among the first efforts the hotspots team took on was identifying the people most likely to overdose in East Price Hill.
    — cincinnati.com, 22 Sep. 2022
  • These are overdose deaths due to lethal levels of fentanyl, methamphetamines, and synthetic drugs that make their way through the prison.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The child’s parents had allegedly overdosed and crashed their car into a tree, per WPTV 5.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 27 July 2023
  • Four people died in the park, including an 18-year-old from San Diego County who overdosed on drugs.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • For everyone else, the week is a chance to overdose on some seriously cute ponies.
    — Tim Neville, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Earlier this year, the Pew Research Center declared that Black men as a group were the hardest hit in the recent surge of drug-overdose deaths.
    — Wesley Lowery, Men's Health, 18 Nov. 2022
  • One who overdosed in a Walmart parking lot gave a home address that didn’t exist.
    — Geoff Mulvihill and Carla K. Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2023
  • One name on the medical examiner’s list of 2017 overdose deaths in San Diego is Leo Holz.
    — Erin Patrick O'Connor, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Huberman tells me about friends from the skateboarding world who overdosed and others who went to jail.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 28 June 2023
  • The co-worker fatally overdosed on the pills the next day, prosecutors said.
    — Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Illicit fentanyl has pushed drug-overdose deaths to new records.
    — Jon Kamp, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2022
  • In May of 2020, a friend found O'Neal, who had overdosed on a mix of morphine, opiates and pain medication, in her apartment.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023

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