How to Use aspirin in a Sentence

aspirin

noun

• Aspirin is effective in controlling headaches.
• Made from small pieces of shale or mudstone, each bead had to be ground into a disc roughly half the size of an aspirin, then drilled with a hole.
  — National Geographic, 1 July 2017
• The elixir, made with pine (nature’s aspirin, FYI) and vinegar, tastes like forest-y cough syrup.
  — Rachelle Robinett, Bon Appetit, 10 May 2017
• Many patients are already are taking one or two cholesterol pills, one or two for high blood pressure, diabetes medication and an aspirin.
  — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 13 June 2017
• Poplar found in the sample likely provided salicylic acid—the active ingredient in aspirin—for pain relief.
  — National Geographic, 8 Mar. 2017
• The company Bayer is famous for inventing aspirin in 1898, which is arguably one of the world’s most beloved brands, and for good reason.
  — John Williams, New York Times, 18 June 2017
• In 2000 scientists discovered a second major mechanism of action for aspirin in the body.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• Some scientists think taking aspirin and vitamin D could reduce inflammation throughout the body and lower the incidences of all kinds of diseases.
  — Elmo Keep, Smithsonian, 24 May 2017
• The station has too many headaches and not enough cash to pay for the aspirin.
  — Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2024
• To make the paste, crush an aspirin with a spoon and swirl it with a few drops of water.
  — Sarah Wu, Glamour, 8 Sep. 2020
• Heparin and low-dose aspirin to reduce the risk of blood clots.
  — USA Today, 14 Mar. 2021
• And don't forget to have aspirin at hand the next morning.
  — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 15 July 2019
• All of us have been taking aspirin for headaches and muscle aches for the last many decades.
  — NBC News, 25 Apr. 2021
• When this runs out, some people will tell you to pop an aspirin in the water.
  — Laura Lane, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2023
• While ibuprofen or aspirin can help with the headache or body aches, steer clear from Tylenol, the experts warn.
  — Kimberly Hickok, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2022
• The company hired a doctor who told the workers to take some aspirin and get back to work.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2021
• Tomas’ body aches would be dulled by aspirin, but would never go away.
  — Aidan McGloin, oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2020
• That when Pierre Louis told officers his thought the pills were aspirin, records show.
  — Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• The scientists will remove aspirin-size cores from along the flat center line of the tusk.
  — Author: Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Sep. 2017
• The numbers passed the threshold; the team concluded that the aspirin was working.
  — Hannah Fry, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
• Stat! Low-dose aspirin has been linked to anemia in older adults.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
• If this is a Super Bowl hangover, no aspirin will cure it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2022
• At the end of the 60s there came a wave of ball bearings, aspirins, cocktail olives: small, round things tumbling in picture space.
  — Mark Rozzo, Vanities, 30 May 2018
• For all our readers under the age of 55, Bufferin is an aspirin product.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 7 Feb. 2018
• Yes, but there's a new study out that says champagne and aspirin is excellent for you.
  — Fox News, 25 May 2018
• Saner heads, and perhaps a few aspirins, prevailed in the morning light and no deal was struck.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• Were the patients who were more likely to live given aspirin?
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• His chest tightened, a pressure that has led to a daily aspirin habit.
  — USA Today, 13 May 2020
• People who were hospitalized for Covid but who were also taking low-dose aspirin had no increase in the likelihood of a subsequent heart attack or stroke.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
• Inside, residents generally come for pickled eggs, aspirin, chewing tobacco, batteries, lottery tickets, snacks and community news − at least before the power went out.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024