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

When she got pregnant with her fifth baby, she’d been having trouble sleeping, so she took a sleeping pill her husband had recently bought over the counter on a trip to England.

From Slate • 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

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

“Some nonsense about a bachelor party. I just want to take a sleeping pill and go to bed.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt