speedball

Example Sentences

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It’s about chasing oblivion in the whirling, flaming speedball of heavy booze and violent sex.

From Los Angeles Times

“I feel like it’s a scroll. And on the scroll is written all of her tastes, all of her opinions, her loves, her heartbreaks, her father’s death, her mother’s death, every song she wrote, every time she slammed heroin, every time she did a speedball, did cocaine, every cigarette she smoked, every drag, every drink, everything. Every time the cops went after her, shot at her — everything is written onto her voice.”

From Los Angeles Times

But even in that context, this match stands out, a moreish speedball of narrative and life that has every chance of ending in a ruck.

From The Guardian

The Troubadour shows play a significant part in the film, but director Dexter Fletcher, working in the traditions of Baz Luhrmann and Ken Russell, changes facts and rearranges chronology in order to better create a speedball fantasia.

From Los Angeles Times

It just sells a lot of flat whites and something called bulletproof coffee – which is a disgusting combo of butter and caffeine; the keto equivalent of the speedball that killed John Belushi.

From The Guardian