suppository

Example Sentences

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By Wednesday evening, only three boxes of generic ibuprofen chewables, two boxes of generic acetaminophen chewables and six boxes of suppository acetaminophen remained.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022

If you do, you'll be given an antifungal prescription like fluconazole, or told to purchase an over-the-counter cream or ointment, or a suppository that's inserted into the vagina.

From US News • Dec. 22, 2015

“None of the babies ever had a ‘colic,’ a laxative, an enema, or a suppository, and at the age of five or six weeks they all slept through the night.”

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2015

He said: "No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom."

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2013

Once a nurse inserted a suppository to loosen his bowels and did not return, although he cramped his finger ringing the buzzer, until after he had soiled his pajamas.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García