How to Use generic in a Sentence

generic

1 of 2 adjective

• In 2019, the FDA approved a generic version of the drug.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
• The judges also upheld the FDA's approval of the generic version of the drug in 2019.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• Say goodbye to the generic gifts and the cliche candle lit dinner.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Worse, the word is so vague and generic as to be nearly meaningless.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• And other name brand or generic versions of all of these are available.
  — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 11 May 2023
• Pepcid, on the other hand, is known by the generic name famotidine.
  — Joe Graedon and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2023
• Zolpidem is the generic name for the sleeping pill Ambien.
  — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
• His character has a generic name, Kid, that marks him as a man who's never been able to find his center.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• The generic nature of the response ultimately left me cold.
  — Joy Montgomery, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2024
• No one wants to see another generic sales pitch clogging up their feed.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
• There’s nothing generic about this four-door, which has a sporty shape to go with its distinctive light package.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024
• Nothing turns clients off more than a generic pitch that doesn’t bother to take into account their needs.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
• Whereas the last generation’s GX had a somewhat generic look, the new version is brash and bold.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 June 2023
• Typically, drug names are written with the brand name first and the generic name in parentheses.
  — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2024
• But we’re left adrift in his story with only generic beats providing a life raft.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The manufacturer of the generic version of mifepristone also sued the FDA to keep their drug on the market.
  — Sarah Whitmire, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• The generic version, norgestrel, was developed by Pfizer and prescribed for decades.
  — Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
• Comfortable curved armrests are just one more perk of the distinctive shape that stands out among more generic options on the market.
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Aug. 2023
• With a generic plot over the course of five episodes, Echo struggles to capture the audience’s attention because of its slow pacing.
  — David Zimmermann, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
• The drugs also must be ones that don’t have generic competitors and are approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
  — Tom Murphy, Amanda Seitz and Chris Megerian, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2023
• That word doesn’t mean the results should be generic or the product of an ever-growing pipeline to be filled incessantly.
  — Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Just thinking back to those scenes from the steps of the Portrait Gallery (not some shiny, new, generic real estate development) gives me goosebumps.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• The committee’s members are anonymous, and the coalition’s website directs members of the news media to a generic form for questions.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
• Johnson, for her part, suggests using a hefty antique table instead of something generic and off the shelf.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 5 May 2023
• In the past, 3-D representations of organs that appeared in Times articles had been based on generic stand-ins.
  — Vivian Ewing, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• The point of their little love triangle, the hottie Aaron (Joseph Torres) seems utterly generic.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
• The generic drug can be purchased cheaply and prescribed by most physicians and some nurses, regardless of their training.
  — Matthew Perrone, Fortune Well, 7 Nov. 2023
• Their complaints went viral, sparking a debate over whether Momofuku — or anyone — should be able to own the trademark of the generic sounding chile or chili crunch.
  — Mae Anderson, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2024
• Yet that could merely reflect the dominance of Google in consumers’ minds, as evidenced by the evolution of the brand name into a generic term for web searching.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• But he’s hampered by a generic, overblown production which veers from the melodrama of early Sam Smith to the chest-beating antics of Imagine Dragons. 31.
  — Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 9 May 2023

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generic

2 of 2 noun

• You can substitute generics for brand-name drugs on this health plan.
• Sphinx of the Second Sun is a mono-blue sphinx that costs two blue and six generic.
  — Joe Parlock, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• The breezy courtship sequences feel stiff; the writing’s generic in the extreme.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
• But a steady supply of generics might be worth the greater expense.
  — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2023
• Tier 4 is your brand names that don’t have generics available.
  — Richard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 22 Feb. 2023
• That led to a high-energy song and dance that set a generic, slightly high-strung tone for the night.
  — Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 10 June 2019
• This is on the theory that all generics are alike, so the only thing that matters is price.
  — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Still, Teva has yet to name the price of its generic, ensuring that the FDA’s hopes are indeed true.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2018
• Gilead could switch patients to its new drug just before cheap generics hit the market.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 23 July 2023
• Most of the drugs in short supply are generics—drugs that are less-expensive copies of patented drugs.
  — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• And roughly 90% of all prescriptions written in the U.S. are for generics.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 27 Jan. 2020
• Some of the drugs are now generics and available for just a few dollars per prescription.
  — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 20 June 2023
• Many generics are so cheap that the $5 shipping cost would swallow any small savings.
  — Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2023
• So a patented pill that sells for $1 can be profitably produced and sold as a generic for a penny.
  — Alfred Engelberg, STAT, 11 Sep. 2021
• Plan B One-Step and its generics are made up of a single pill containing the full 1.5-milligram dose.
  — Natasha Lavender, SELF, 1 Apr. 2019
• The status of Teva, which makes generic and branded drugs and has struggled with debt, is less clear.
  — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2020
• Mifepristone is available under the brand name Mifeprex and as a generic.
  — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
• Prices for those generics range $3-$12 for varying supply amounts.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 17 Jan. 2020
• Some have established a hybrid tier with some generics and some brand name drugs.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
• Once a drug goes off patent, other companies can produce and sell it as a generic.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 7 Aug. 2020
• For all the talk of wondrous European health-care systems, the American generics system is the envy of the world.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2018
• Fairbanks took notice of his gear—which was a mix of high-end and generic, including his black-and-copper trekking poles.
  — Nicholas Thompson, Wired, 2 Nov. 2020
• The conflict’s generic, the dialogue ho-hum … but who cares, book me a ticket to Pandora!
  — Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022
• Methadone is a decades-old generic that is very inexpensive.
  — Felice J. Freyer, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2018
• The Alphas are exciting, even when the final act turns their villainy generic.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 20 May 2021
• Is there a premium for certain brands of birth control or a discount for generics?
  — Ashley Ziegler, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2023
• Versed is a brand name for the sedative midazolam, used since the late 1970s and today sold commonly as a generic.
  — Deb Riechmann, The Seattle Times, 14 Nov. 2018
• The company accounts for only a small slice of the market; the vast majority of the opioid pills sold are generics.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
• Ask your doctor about switching from more expensive brand-name drugs to generics.
  — Susan Moeller, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2018
• The steps also included that Medicare drug plans cover and encourage the use of new generics.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 16 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024