sleeping pill

Example Sentences

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At a doctor’s suggestion, she tried taking a sleeping pill, in the hopes that it might “reset” her sleep cycle and improve her mood.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2024

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

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 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

North Korean officials, though, have repeatedly denied accusations that Warmbier was tortured, instead claiming that he had suffered from botulism and then slipped into a coma after taking a sleeping pill.

From Fox News • Apr. 26, 2019

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