How to Use date rape in a Sentence

date rape

noun
Definition of date rapenext
  • He was accused of date rape.
  • In Giles's case, GHB – known as the date rape drug – was found in her system.
    — Alicia Tejada, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Her urine had no trace of date rape drugs, the document says.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2021
  • This time it wasn't fentanyl but GBL, commonly used as a date rape drug.
    — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2017
  • As the Times noted, most date rape drugs don't stay in the system long enough to be detected in a standard drug test.
    — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Some of the incidents involved date rape drugs and ocurred at major resorts and hotels.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • KnoNap isn’t the first or only attempt to curb date rape with supplies commonly found in the party aisle.
    — Torey Van Oot, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2018
  • There had been speculation that Thitima was given a date rape drug such as GHB.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The first major national date rape case came in 1990, and it was met with widespread confusion and dismissal.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 24 Sep. 2018
  • One of the men pictured here was directly responsible for my date rape.
    — Aisha Harris, New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • Predators have slipped it into the drinks of unsuspecting date rape victims.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 18 June 2018
  • Rusk said her sister suffered from depression and bulimia, and a date rape was the final straw that would lead her sibling to take her own life at age 17.
    — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Another alleged Jordan gave her GHB, commonly referred to as the date rape drug.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Her essays’ subjects range from Bjork to Elizabeth Wurtzel to date rape to Nabokov (twice), revealing a mind at work that is truly singular.
    — Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Until, that is, Tess is the victim of a shockingly brutal date rape by another brilliant young colleague—this one the son of a rich and powerful London lawyer.
    — Trish Deitch, Variety, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The situation is instantly blurry, maybe changing it to date rape.
    — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2019
  • The moves come after a legislative staffer reported that a lobbyist used a date rape drug on her earlier this month during an off-site meeting.
    — Cayla Harris, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The government took notice as stories of date rape associated with GHB began to appear in the news more frequently.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2022
  • These tests, often referred to as a date rape test panels, typically need to be performed as soon as possible, as the drugs are known to leave the system quickly, usually within one to two days.
    — Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2022
  • One of Cordero’s lawyers, Dod Ghassemkhani, argued that despite claims by the witnesses of being drugged, no date rape drugs had been discovered in the womens’ toxicology exams.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The dinner event also focused on menopause, and Eckert’s new products in development, including a decal that detects date rape drugs in drinks and a flushable pregnancy test.
    — Halley Bondy, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2019
  • As befitted an Aaron Spelling production, though, there was no shortage of money and drugs and love triangles, with subplots about alcoholic parents, adoption, and date rape thrown into the mix.
    — Lauren Mechling, Town & Country, 4 Oct. 2020
  • The teen drama tackled issues like teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, drug abuse, eating disorders, suicide and date rape.
    — Kelly Martinez, Peoplemag, 17 July 2023
  • Experts say common date rape drugs, like GHB, Rohypnol, and ketamine, are hard to detect, so allegations of drink spiking are almost impossible to prove.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2022
  • Some of the victims alleged they may have been drugged by the defendant, though Cordero’s defense attorneys denied that claim, saying no date rape drugs had been discovered in the women’s toxicology exams.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
  • A week after Christie disappeared, Garcia searched online for information about how authorities test for date rape drugs.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2021
  • In her first collection of nonfiction, Gaitskill, ever prescient, tackles everything from date rape to politics to her own creative process.
    — Joumana Khatib, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Four months later, Chody did not discipline Deaton after disturbing and graphic Facebook posts were made public in which Deaton used toy figures to depict graphic scenes of date rape and other violent acts.
    — Tony Plohetski, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Over the past several years, colleges and universities have focused more closely on student-to-student conflicts, struggling for ways to adjudicate campus and date rape cases.
    — Greg Toppo, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Karla Walker, clinical laboratory director for a company that analyzed the woman's urine, testified there were no date rape drugs found in the urine.
    — Lawrence Andrea, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2019

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