How to Use painkiller in a Sentence

painkiller

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The painkiller Vioxx was heavily advertised before it was taken off the market for doubling the risk of heart attack and stroke.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
• Analgesics, or painkillers, ease any pain your body may sense during and after the operation.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 11 Apr. 2023
• The deal marks the latest in a series of financial payouts to governments grappling with a surge of painkiller addictions and deaths.
  — Molly Young, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2022
• The crisis at first centered on prescription painkillers that gained more acceptance in the 1990s, and later heroin.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
• If you are prescribed an opioid painkiller, ask if there is an alternative.
  — Taylyn Washington-Harmon, Men's Health, 14 Apr. 2022
• Stranded in a small Cajun town, a young mother battling a painkiller relapse must fight to save her daughter from a demonic tooth fairy.
  — Vulture, 12 Dec. 2022
• For example, the opioid buprenorphine is often given to lab rodents and monkeys as a painkiller.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024