How to Use painkiller in a Sentence
painkiller
noun- I took some over-the-counter painkillers for my headache.
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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
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Yeah, that’s a pretty squidgy line to draw in the sand between painkillers.
—Jenna West and Eric Nehm, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
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But most of a day passed before he was given a painkiller.
—Vivian Yee, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
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After some talk of hips, backs, surgeries, and painkillers, Tweedy went to get ready to play.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
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As the painkillers wear off, my postpartum tears feel so sore.
—refinery29.com, 6 May 2020
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The pills are made to look like oxycodone, a painkiller with a high potential for abuse.
—Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2020
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The girl takes painkillers and sedatives and is paralyzed.
—Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 6 Jan. 2020
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That’s why my carry-on always has some sort of painkiller.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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Since coming home, the most troubled of them had turned to painkillers, alcohol, and even meth.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Aspirin, at first a painkiller, is now also used to prevent blood clots.
—Annette Bakker, STAT, 27 June 2023
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An Advil devotee for most of his life, Hawk turned to prescription painkillers.
—Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 2 July 2018
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First of all, why aren’t there painkillers available for IUD procedures?
—Mara Santilli, Glamour, 10 Nov. 2023
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The painkiller is a staple on nearly every cocktail menu on St. John.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
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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
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What made her recovery more difficult was the lack of heavy painkillers.
—Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 19 Mar. 2023
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Officers found two guns and two prescription painkillers in the truck.
—Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Glover spent a night in the hospital, where she was given injections of a painkiller.
—Sandra G. Boodman, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
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This year, one in five Americans knows someone who’s died of a painkiller overdose.
—Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
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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
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Then she’s brought to the hospital and probably given some sort of painkiller.
—David Lachapelle, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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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
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In the 1960s, interest surged in understanding how kratom works as a painkiller.
—Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
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OxyContin painkiller and its role in the opioid crisis.
—Jodi Xu Klein, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
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Years after his career fizzled out, Mandarich would come clean about his steroid and painkiller abuse in a tell-all book.
—The Si Staff, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
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It was born in part from concern that its MS Contin opioid painkiller was going off patent.
—Casey Ross, STAT, 2 Dec. 2019
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The prevailing culture around the NFL is to shower players with painkillers and get them on the field as soon as possible.
—Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 Aug. 2019
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The drug is a painkiller often used for patients following surgery, according to the Mayo Clinic.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
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