How to Use druggist in a Sentence

druggist

noun

• Your local druggist can fill the prescription.
• Druggists and apothecaries sold medicines and supposed miracle cures in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 22 June 2017
• More than 10 local physicians and druggists signed the ad as well, and dozens of customers testified to the ice's quality.
  — NOLA.com, 10 May 2017
• In London, for instance, deaths in October at the height of the killing wave were running at 4,500 a week, and there was panic buying at druggists.
  — Mark Honigsbaum, The New York Review of Books, 17 Mar. 2020
• In a Texas case, the druggist was charged with a misdemeanor, Cadden's lawyer, Bruce Singal, noted in a 60-page sentencing memo.
  — Walter F. Roche Jr., USA TODAY, 26 June 2017
• His great aunts and uncles included a steamboat captain, a doctor, a druggist and a sister who cared for the parents.
  — Samantha Stetzer, The Seattle Times, 17 Dec. 2017
• Porter was born in 1891 in Peru, Ind., to a druggist father and a mother who encouraged his musical and theatrical interests.
  — David Kirby, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
• While most sold real medicines, some of their products, Dr. Klein said, were laced with small amounts of heroin or opium, which druggists used, intentionally or not, to make the customers feel good and get them addicted to their products.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 22 June 2017
• Rosebud Salve was invented in 1892 by a druggist as a family salve that works for chapped lips, skin, blemishes, diaper rash, or detergent burn.
  — Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 27 Oct. 2020
• In early May a Dayton mine manager and a local druggist (the latter also part-time chairman of the schoolbook committee) met with John Scopes, a young high school science teacher, to discuss resistance.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 10 July 2018
• PBMs negotiate drug prices with drug companies on behalf of insurance companies and other payers, then communicate those prices to druggists at the retail level.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• Applied botany was, to Hosack’s mind, important for everyone — farmers, druggists, manufacturers — but especially his Columbia medical students.
  — Marta McDowell, New York Times, 25 June 2018

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2024