sleeping pill
Example Sentences
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After its introduction, it quickly became the most popular prescription sleeping pill on the market.
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
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
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