How to Use cough drop in a Sentence

cough drop

noun

• That’s a whole lot of cough drops, tissues and sick days.
  — Good Housekeeping Editors, Good Housekeeping, 16 Oct. 2019
• Sucking on a cough drop or lozenge may help throughout the day.
  — Hannah Jeon, Good Housekeeping, 1 Aug. 2022
• Oh sure, the world now has pumpkin spice-flavored M&MS and pumpkin-spice cough drops.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 6 Oct. 2017
• The singer later cleared up the gum vs. cough drop debate online with a simple tweet.
  — Jennifer Calfas, Time, 4 Feb. 2018
• There are certainly people who need them -- the cough drop craze must have started with a real cough.
  — oregonlive, 23 Jan. 2020
• Put your Vogues in chronological order and throw out all your expired spices and cough drops.
  — Shani Silver, refinery29.com, 3 Jan. 2020
• The cough drop, as always, promises to keep your illness between you and your remedy.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• Pumpkin spice cream cheese, hummus, peanut butter, marshmallows, kale chips, and cough drops are just a small handful of items to try.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2017
• The Pumpkin Spice cough drops are available for a limited time in most stores nationwide and retail for $1.70.
  — Danielle Tullo, Cosmopolitan, 5 Sep. 2017
• Staying hydrated, sucking on cough drops, or taking a steamy shower can ease a dry cough.
  — Leah Groth, Health, 15 Mar. 2024
• Water and dill pickles Directly off the stage, a lounge is stocked to the brim with tea, Ricola cough drops and vitamins to keep the auctioneers' throats in top shape.
  — Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 19 Jan. 2020
• Instead, when the team tightens up, his steady offense could be just the cough drop (or Heimlich maneuver) to keep Utah from heading home early.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2022
• The kits, which will be limited to two per vehicle, will include items such as masks, hand sanitizer, gloves and cough drops.
  — Jeanne Houck, Cincinnati.com, 26 May 2020
• The Slurpee version is unpleasantly medicinal, like a lemon cough drop.
  — Molly Fitzpatrick, Bon Appetit, 8 Sep. 2017
• This includes things like aspirin, Tylenol, tissues, honey, tea bags, cough drops, a thermometer, etc.
  — Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 1 Jan. 2024
• Some offer cough drops, others break out the disinfectant.
  — Chip Cutter, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2019
• The cool relief of a cough drop is no coincidence, as the menthol receptor both suppresses coughs and produces the cool feeling in your throat.
  — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2012
• The offices supplies a wellness table stocked with Airborne, cough drops and fruit provided throughout the flu season.
  — azcentral, 7 June 2018
• Amazon, for example, might see that a customer has bought cough drops every week for the last month, and went to the doctor for a cold six weeks before but never filled their prescription.
  — Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2017
• The only thing that comes out of my pocket are tissues, receipts, loose cough drops, a movie stub for ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ which was, uhh, so-so and of course the little button in the baggie that comes with the pants.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2019
• Consumers who not long ago would have taken a cough drop or gargled with saltwater to soothe a sore throat now pop into their nearby retail clinic for a strep test.
  — Reed Abelson and Julie Creswell, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
• For the first few years after college, my acting career had been mostly Off Broadway theater, so my bank account consisted of four hugs and a cough drop.
  — New York Times, 19 June 2018
• Health coach Melissa Evans created these pops as an all-natural alternative to cough drops and lozenges.
  — Brittany Loggins, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2019
• Then there are the Band-Aids, hand lotion, her passport, eye drops, cough drops, nail files, hand sanitizer, Fitbit batteries, a spare key to her car and Stevia packets.
  — Lainey Berkus, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2018
• From cough drop to purple sweet potato, Nestle has experimented with some wacky KitKat flavors.
  — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 18 Jan. 2018
• While the former first lady and the 43rd president may seem like an unlikely duo, each sitting at opposite sides of the political spectrum, the two have developed a dear friendship over the years and exchanged many pleasantries (and cough drops).
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2019
• Her first collaboration was with Ricola, the Swiss cough drop producer whose Ricola Foundation supports research and projects to protect bees and promote their health.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe and Renee Valdes, CNN, 3 Nov. 2019
• Some of the drugs were discovered a century ago or earlier, including benzocaine (a local anesthetic sometimes put in cough drops) and quinidine (a treatment for heart rhythm disorders).
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2018

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024