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

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