How to Use barbiturate in a Sentence

barbiturate

noun

• The box with the barbiturates was still in the drawer, but Alisa could no longer make use of her husband’s wedding present.
  — Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The clinic’s staff gave the children barbiturates, which often led to their death by pneumonia.
  — Hannah Furfaro, Science | AAAS, 19 Apr. 2018
• The studio gave the then-teenager barbiturates and amphetamines designed to wake her up in the morning, fall asleep at night, and control her weight.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2023
• The single-drug protocol with a barbiturate works very well.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
• Later that year, Garland would die of a barbiturate overdose.
  — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 29 Jan. 2020
• The state says drug makers stopped selling that barbiturate for lethal injections.
  — Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
• The Wizard of Oz star died in London in 1969 of an accidental barbiturate overdose just months after the tour ended.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Her father, who had long abused barbiturates and alcohol, killed himself, on his second try, in 1959.
  — Elsa Dixler, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2020
• The Sonoma County man took his life in August with 90 capsules of barbiturates prescribed by a physician and dissolved in apple juice.
  — Cathie Anderson, sacbee.com, 27 June 2017
• Monroe was found dead at her home in Brentwood California in August 1962 and her death was caused by a barbiturate overdose.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2022
• The autopsy report noted that a barbiturate was found in his system.
  — Matthew Haag and Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• Indeed, when that happens and death comes, the cause is the underlying condition, not an overdose of barbiturates.
  — Wesley J. Smith, National Review, 27 Sep. 2019
• To replace the paperweight with a bottle of a potent, near deadly barbiturate speaks volumes.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2020
• He had been fed a barbiturate earlier that evening by O'Neal, whose relationship with Hampton is explored in the drama.
  — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2020
• When benzos were introduced to the market in the 1950s, there was excitement as they were considered safer compared to barbiturates, which had been used to treat anxiety.
  — Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2019
• Carlton Gary, 67, is scheduled to die by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital on Thursday evening at the state prison in Jackson.
  — Fox News, 15 Mar. 2018
• While 31 states have the death penalty, more than half of executions in the U.S. this year were carried out by Texas, whose single-drug protocol uses a lethal dose of the barbiturate pentobarbital.
  — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
• J.W. Ledford Jr. is set to be put to death Tuesday by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital.
  — Kate Brumback, Fox News, 12 May 2017
• Her diet is constantly scrutinised and food withheld from her; her managers force her to take amphetamines to curb her appetite and barbiturates to help her sleep.
  — N.e.g., The Economist, 1 Oct. 2019
• At least 789 children died at Spiegelgrund during the Third Reich, most of them from pneumonia, typically brought on by the barbiturates that would be mixed with sugar or cocoa and fed to the children with the express purpose of killing them.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 9 May 2018
• Garland died of an accidental barbiturate overdose months after the tour ended in June 1969 in London.
  — Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com, 14 June 2018
• He had been fed a barbiturate earlier that evening by informant William O'Neal, whose relationship with Hampton is explored in the drama.
  — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• The spat went on for months in the pages of the literary magazine Kaizo, and ended only when Akutagawa, age 35, killed himself by taking an overdose of barbiturates on Tanizaki’s birthday, July 24.
  — Min Jin Lee, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• Nutt et al's expert panels rated barbiturates as the fourth most addictive substance.
  — Eric Bowman, CNN, 23 Jan. 2019
• The major revelations of Summers’ book are the inconsistencies concerning the time of her shocking death from a barbiturate overdose at age 36, and the manner in which it was reported.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2022
• The children survived the attack but Perelson later killed himself by overdosing on barbiturates, the Los Angeles Times reports.
  — Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 30 Dec. 2019
• His lawyers argue lethal injection would subject him to cruel and unusual pain and that Floyd prefers safer alternatives, including a firing squad or a single dose of a barbiturate.
  — Scott Sonner, ajc, 29 June 2021
• The autopsy report contains no evidence that the barbiturates had reached her liver or other vital organs.
  — Town & Country, 28 July 2023
• Like many performers at the time, Elvis was a heavy user of a number of prescription medications including opiates, barbiturates, and sedatives.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 16 Mar. 2019
• Toxicological tests found barbiturates, Valium, anti-seizure drugs and painkillers in his system.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024