Example Sentences

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The ubiquity of holiday songs also represents a rare monocultural music moment—even though listeners are spread across multiple streaming services and social-media platforms, many of them are mainlining the same tunes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

In some ways, I feel like a conspiracy junkie who has relapsed, mainlining paranoia and dread.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2024

He was mainlining applause from the public gallery.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

Youths, I am told, speak of “hopium” and “copium,” but we need a word that incorporates the never-ending mainlining of information as well as the positive or negative cast of that information.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2020

I felt as if I were mainlining the whole cosmic force of basketball.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2020