How to Use prescription in a Sentence

prescription

noun
  • I have to pick up my prescription.
  • The drug is only sold with a prescription.
  • What does this mean for your next prescription?
    Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The risk was present after six or more prescriptions were filled.
    New Atlas, 10 July 2025
  • This smart pill is not meant for every prescription.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Medicine isn’t just about prescriptions.
    Crystal Cene, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Still life of the big three injectable prescription weight loss medicines.
    Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 1 Jan. 2026
  • And there ain’t no prescription for this disease.
    Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2026
  • Hardly a prescription for growth or trust.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 May 2026
  • Drugs for which Smith did not have prescription were also found in the room.
    Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 21 July 2022
  • Grapefruit warnings for prescription users might soon be a thing of the past.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The same law now allows patients to spread the cost of prescriptions over the year.
    Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2025
  • For too long, the cost of prescriptions has been shrouded in mystery.
    Wendy Barnes, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Those who can’t turn to a growing black market for prescription drugs.
    Chao Deng, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2022
  • So, who is looking out for the prescription needs of patients?
    Jon Stojan, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Patients were unable to fill prescriptions, and providers could not get paid for care.
    Reed Abelson, New York Times, 23 May 2024
  • Consumers need prescriptions from a health care provider to purchase the drugs.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The pill form still requires a prescription from a doctor.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
  • In fact, 1 in 5 prescriptions is for off-label use of a drug.
    Naomi Cahn, The Conversation, 15 May 2026
  • Need to go grocery shopping or pick up some prescription medicine?
    Alexiah Syrai Olsen, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
  • Spayd knew that her prescriptions were killing people, Tansey said.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2023
  • The report found that the use of prescription or over-the-counter sleep aids increased with age.
    The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2026
  • This is a prescription for trouble.
    Thomas Friedman, Twin Cities, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This is a prescription for trouble.
    Thomas L. Friedman, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Firmoo provides a guide that breaks down how to read a prescription and what each value means.
    Footwear News, 12 June 2026
  • By this point, a doctor had given her a prescription for Xanax.
    Susan McFarland, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • Getting a refill of their pill prescription was the last thing on their minds, and rightly so.
    ELLE, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Hoard is looking forward to getting a prescription for the new drug.
    Linda Carroll, NBC News, 12 May 2023
  • He was given topical and oral prescriptions and sent on his way.
    Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 4 Mar. 2026
  • That means patients will need to wait for the prescription to be approved before it can be filled.
    Sony Salzman, ABC News, 1 July 2026

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