How to Use painkiller in a Sentence

painkiller

noun

• I took some over-the-counter painkillers for my headache.
• The cheapest painkillers cost around six cents, or ten Kenyan shillings, for a pack of two.
  — Elizabeth Wells and Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 5 Dec. 2023
• But most of a day passed before he was given a painkiller.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• After some talk of hips, backs, surgeries, and painkillers, Tweedy went to get ready to play.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• As the painkillers wear off, my postpartum tears feel so sore.
  — refinery29.com, 6 May 2020
• The pills are made to look like oxycodone, a painkiller with a high potential for abuse.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2020
• The girl takes painkillers and sedatives and is paralyzed.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 6 Jan. 2020
• A half pill of oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller, was found on a nightstand next to the man’s chair.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2020
• Rue said the man who performed the procedure was not a doctor and didn’t give her painkillers.
  — Molly Gibbs, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
• Aspirin, at first a painkiller, is now also used to prevent blood clots.
  — Annette Bakker, STAT, 27 June 2023
• First of all, why aren’t there painkillers available for IUD procedures?
  — Mara Santilli, Glamour, 10 Nov. 2023
• The painkiller is a staple on nearly every cocktail menu on St. John.
  — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
• Salvi takes a painkiller every day and walks to the hospital to clean and do her job with no protective gear.
  — Priyali Sur, CNN, 15 Apr. 2020
• What made her recovery more difficult was the lack of heavy painkillers.
  — Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 19 Mar. 2023
• Glover spent a night in the hospital, where she was given injections of a painkiller.
  — Sandra G. Boodman, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
• This year, one in five Americans knows someone who’s died of a painkiller overdose.
  — Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
• The land brimmed with debris left by the Russians — bags of bullets, vials of painkillers, a game of battleship made of paper and blue pen.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
• Then she’s brought to the hospital and probably given some sort of painkiller.
  — David Lachapelle, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
• Once in a while, Michael will pop a painkiller, but that’s as close as the show comes to acknowledging that there was more to the man than his brilliant career.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Feb. 2022
• In the 1960s, interest surged in understanding how kratom works as a painkiller.
  — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
• OxyContin painkiller and its role in the opioid crisis.
  — Jodi Xu Klein, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• It was born in part from concern that its MS Contin opioid painkiller was going off patent.
  — Casey Ross, STAT, 2 Dec. 2019
• The child, who was not identified, bought and consumed a pill with a label consistent with the painkiller oxycodone.
  — Josh Campbell, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
• States have tried to ban drugs in the past: in 2014 Massachusetts tried to ban the sale of an addictive painkiller called Zohydro.
  — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2023
• It can be prescribed as a painkiller to treat severe pain after surgeries.
  — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
• Earlier drafts of the script had a darker, noir thriller centered around a down-and-out hero drowning his pain in tequila and painkillers.
  — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 4 May 2024
• Most of us, even without the excuse of age, would send our polite regrets about missing the party, and sit at home with a nice book and some painkillers.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 6 Aug. 2023
• We were sent home with painkillers and discharge paperwork.
  — Kevin Farron, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
• Alcohol abuse accounts for the bulk of that, but Oregon ranks first among states in painkiller abuse and second in methamphetamine use.
  — Rachel Alexander and Saphara Harrell, oregonlive, 6 Feb. 2021
• Unable to dance, she self-medicates with pills bought from a local busker and develops an addiction to painkillers.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024