How to Use painkiller in a Sentence

painkiller

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  • I took some over-the-counter painkillers for my headache.
  • The cheapest painkillers cost around six cents, or ten Kenyan shillings, for a pack of two.
    — Elizabeth Wells and Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 5 Dec. 2023
  • But most of a day passed before he was given a painkiller.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Rue said the man who performed the procedure was not a doctor and didn’t give her painkillers.
    — Molly Gibbs, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • Aspirin, at first a painkiller, is now also used to prevent blood clots.
    — Annette Bakker, STAT, 27 June 2023
  • First of all, why aren’t there painkillers available for IUD procedures?
    — Mara Santilli, Glamour, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The painkiller is a staple on nearly every cocktail menu on St. John.
    — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
  • What made her recovery more difficult was the lack of heavy painkillers.
    — Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 19 Mar. 2023
  • This year, one in five Americans knows someone who’s died of a painkiller overdose.
    — Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The land brimmed with debris left by the Russians — bags of bullets, vials of painkillers, a game of battleship made of paper and blue pen.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Once in a while, Michael will pop a painkiller, but that’s as close as the show comes to acknowledging that there was more to the man than his brilliant career.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Feb. 2022
  • In the 1960s, interest surged in understanding how kratom works as a painkiller.
    — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
  • OxyContin painkiller and its role in the opioid crisis.
    — Jodi Xu Klein, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The child, who was not identified, bought and consumed a pill with a label consistent with the painkiller oxycodone.
    — Josh Campbell, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • States have tried to ban drugs in the past: in 2014 Massachusetts tried to ban the sale of an addictive painkiller called Zohydro.
    — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2023
  • It can be prescribed as a painkiller to treat severe pain after surgeries.
    — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Earlier drafts of the script had a darker, noir thriller centered around a down-and-out hero drowning his pain in tequila and painkillers.
    — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 4 May 2024
  • Most of us, even without the excuse of age, would send our polite regrets about missing the party, and sit at home with a nice book and some painkillers.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 6 Aug. 2023
  • We were sent home with painkillers and discharge paperwork.
    — Kevin Farron, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
  • When the fish were given painkillers, these behaviors decreased.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • Three days later, Dancer’s Image is disqualified when traces of a painkiller are found in tests.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
  • While more than a third of the painkillers tested were fake, an even higher fraction — roughly 80% — of the pills sold as Adderall were counterfeit.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2024
  • More than a third of the opioid painkillers tested were fake, and the vast majority of those were positive for fentanyl.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • Even though the circumcision is done without any painkillers.
    — Nurith Aizenman, NPR, 12 May 2024
  • But for patients using methadone as a painkiller, none of those restrictions apply.
    — Lev Facher, STAT, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The secretary’s last name when pronounced in Mandarin sounds similar to the painkiller ibuprofen.
    — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
  • Others require stronger treatments, such as prescription painkillers in order to get through the day.
    — Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • My father was able to get by with using a fraction of the painkillers prescribed to him and was able to stop using them much earlier than prescribed.
    — Javier Hasse, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Beloved Mikey, who after becoming addicted to painkillers, died by suicide and left the family’s barely functioning restaurant to Carmy.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • His adult daughter, Maureen, became dependent on prescription painkillers after a hip injury, completed rehab and relapsed fatally in 2018.
    — C.j. Chivers James Patrick Cronin Elena Hecht Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 6 June 2024

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