Sentence examples for addicted from inspiring English sources
The word "addicted" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe someone who is strongly attracted to or has an unusually strong preference for something and cannot stop doing it or using it frequently. For example: "John is addicted to playing video games; he plays for hours every day."
He sued NCsoft for fraud and negligence, demanding over $9m in damages and claiming that the company acted negligently by failing to warn him of the danger that he would become "addicted" to the game.But does it make sense to talk of addiction to online activity?
Over time we become addicted to the reaction that performance elicits from those around.
The strong and determined beat of the song and the lyrics ("Feeling it coming in the air, hear their screams from everywhere, I'm addicted to the thrill, of this dangerous love affair. Can't be scared when it goes down, got a problem tell me now.
Yesterday, for instance, it was reported that 10% of 12- to 13-year-olds are worried that they might be addicted to pornography – and also that one in five 14- to 17-year-olds have tried or bought e-cigarettes.
Of course, if you understand that Abbott and his government do not accept the climate science, and that they want to keep Australia addicted to coal, then their decision becomes more understandable.
I couldn't possibly be addicted, I thought to myself as I walk into the Vape Lab, its interior as densely fogged as a Yorkshire pub in the 20s.
And even though he's now a regular user of nicotine, he insists he's absolutely, definitely not addicted to it.
(I says this as someone who finds all the music he promotes entirely unlistenable, but who became worryingly addicted to the first few seasons of American Idol).
Cadbury's would have done less harm by releasing a video of the Easter Bunny getting stomped to death by a meth-addicted biker gang.
Although Moscow's bohemian restaurants are still filled with the fur-addicted crowd, the younger generation's style wouldn't be out of place in Kreuzberg or Shoreditch – a mix of vintage trophies and minimalist Scandinavian brands, ideally with a few locally produced items such as quirky bracelets from Moroz.
For internet-addicted Britons, placing faith in a higher being might well mean having to trust in search giant Google.
