cough medicine

Example Sentences

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Even though Horton hadn’t taken cough medicine, health officials say consuming poppy seed products can lead to positive results for morphine, codeine or both due to the sensitivity of the drug tests.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024

The artificial mixed berry flavor tasted like straight-up medicine — think cough medicine mixed with Tums Ultra Assorted Berries — but frozen.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2024

Doctors, independent experts and patients were asked to have their say in a consultation to reclassify the medicine, so that it could only be prescribed as a cough medicine to those who needed it.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024

He said he gave them both Tylenol, gave the boy cough medicine and the girl some children’s sleep aid.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2023

I don’t eat any dinner or dessert, and I cough so much during the news my dad tells me to take some cough medicine.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson