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

The cabinet called for grassroots health workers to distribute health kits packed with fever and cough medicine, rapid antigen tests and masks to vulnerable groups.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2023

I went into the drugstore to look for some cough medicine.

From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers