Sentences to practice new vocabulary

1. All- consuming

• My baby is all- consuming, I can't do anything else if she is awake.
• Study is all-consuming for me.

2. Cold turkey

• Only some addicted person have the strength to stop doing drugs cold turkey.
• People with strong willpower quit cold turkey detrimental activities.

3. Crave

• When I finish some stressful activities I crave for cakes.
• I crave for his kisses.

4. Hooked on

• Some people are hooked on food, for that reason they are overweight.
• We are hooked on blackberry cellphone.

5. Detrimental

• Most people don't know that porno is detrimental.
• Abortion is a detrimental practice.

6. Drag myself away

• I have to drag myself away from timidity.
• Is difficult to drag oneself away from drugs.

7. Lose track of time

• I lose track of the time when I am with my boyfriend.
• When she is doing housework she loses track of the time.

8. Turn into

• My best friend used to be lazy but now she turns into a workaholic person!
• After his business bankruptcy he turned into a depress man.

9. Willpower

• My kid has strong willpower.
• Willpower makes us successful.

10. Withdrawal

• Withdrawal symptoms are insupportable.
• The car was withdrawn from the garage.

insupportable |ˌinsəˈpôrtəbəl|adjective1 unable to be supported or justified : he had arrived at a wholly insupportable conclusion.2 unable to be endured; intolerable : the heat was insupportable.DERIVATIVES insupportably |-blē| adverbORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French, from in- ‘not’ + supportable (from supporter ‘to support’ ).

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  insupportable adjective1 his arrogance was insupportable intolerable, insufferable, unbearable, unendurable; oppressive, overwhelming, overpowering; informal too much.antonym bearable.2 this view is insupportable unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, unwarrantable, unreasonable, untenable; unjustified, baseless, groundless,unfounded, unsupported, unsubstantiated, unconfirmed, uncorroborated, invalid; implausible, weak, flawed, specious, defective. antonym:defensible, justified.

11. Cut down on

• Doctor says that if we want to improve our health we have to cut down on salty food.
• In order to lose weight, the quantity of sugar has to be cut down on.