sleeping pill

Example Sentences

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My insomnia, caused by COVID, has been so bad and so utterly strange to me, my doctor prescribed a prescription sleeping pill at night, the first such medication I've taken.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2023

The articles I’ve read say not to take a sleeping pill and to use nonmedicinal techniques instead.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2022

I’m not the only person I know who, at least before Putin rattled the world’s cage, listened to the BBC World Service app at bedtime because it’s an aural sleeping pill.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2022

She’s a self-described “loudmouth,” and also, she told me, “I went to take a vitamin just now, and I took a sleeping pill instead, so I can feel myself even getting a little bit chattier.”

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2021

I wish I had a sleeping pill to take, she thought, and looked again over her shoulder, compulsively, at the window, and then again at the door, and thought, Is it moving?

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson