sleeping pill

Example Sentences

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My insomnia, caused by COVID, has been so bad and so utterly strange to me, my doctor prescribed a prescription sleeping pill at night, the first such medication I've taken.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2023

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

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2022

Close to a sleeping pill in audio form.

From New York Times • May 28, 2021

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

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