How to Use quinine in a Sentence

quinine

noun
  • There’s also wild quinine and compass plant with leaves that align north to south.
    Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • This one is adapted from Modernist Cuisine, and the quinine in the tonic causes the sweets to glow under a black light.
    Christina Bonnington, WIRED, 16 May 2012
  • The bark of these trees, which were introduced by the Belgians, contains quinine, a drug that cures malaria.
    The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • Suddenly the Axis powers had 95% of the world’s quinine.
    The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Previous leafy finds from the Amazon led to the discovery of the rubber tree and the cinchona tree, which is used to make the malaria drug quinine.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2016
  • The aperitif wine Cocchi Rosa adds a lightly sweet, fruity note and the bitterness of quinine.
    M. Carrie Allan, sacbee.com, 29 May 2017
  • Huguette was told she had malaria, and received the customary quinine treatment for five days.
    Rachel Jones, National Geographic, 23 May 2019
  • What wasn’t clear was how this enzyme broke down quinine in pregnant rabbits and in rabbit embryos.
    Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
  • What wasn’t clear was how this enzyme broke down quinine in pregnant rabbits and in rabbit embryos.
    Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
  • That changed when quinine was discovered to help prevent death from malaria.
    Travis Loller, Fortune Well, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The quinine in tonic water will fluoresce a bright blue, as will the darkest spots on an overripe banana.
    Helen Czerski, WSJ, 24 May 2018
  • In his day, there was little to offer the sick in the way of effective medicines—beyond, say, opiates or quinine—and few vaccines were available.
    Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • The sweet, dark-golden beverage is a mix of white tea, white cranberry, and ginger, with a hit of bitterness from quinine that tastes a lot like a spritzer.
    Kate Krader | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The chemicals used to process quinine are costly and come by lorry from Tanzania.
    The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • In 1820 French chemists discovered how to extract quinine from cinchona.
    The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Villagers make quinine from the bark of the native knobwood trees, and gondolosi roots are collected to sell as an aphrodisiac in the markets of Mutare.
    Peter Browne, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2019
  • This easy drink is a G&T substitute for those who might not like the bitter quinine in tonic water or who love the simple refreshing bubble of a Ranch Water.
    M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Chloroquine is a synthetic form of quinine, a centuries-old compound for malaria that is found in small amounts in products such as tonic water.
    Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2020
  • More impressively, the bees who knew about the quinine consequence correctly chose the four-shape image when paired with a five-shape image 59% of the time, despite the tricky distinction.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
  • There's aspirin, morphine, caffeine, cocaine, quinine, and many more.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2011
  • The book's recipes go well beyond that, celebrating quinine in all its forms, including liqueurs that include cinchona and tonic syrup.
    Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Correct answers were rewarded with yummy sucrose, and wrong ones with icky quinine.
    Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2019
  • James Pimm, a farmer's son who owned an oyster bar in 19th-century London, created it and offered his guests the secret mix of gin, quinine, and a spice blend as a tonic to aid digestion.
    Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 2 June 2017
  • Be sure to start or end a meal with Violet Freres slightly bitter quinine aperitif.
    Linda Bladholm, miamiherald, 15 Feb. 2018
  • In contrast, landing on cards with odd numbers resulted in a bitter-tasting quinine.
    Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • At the time, according to Forbes, quinine was accessible only by extracting it from a cinchona tree.
    Katherine Eisenbrand, PEOPLE.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • James Pimm, a farmer's son who owned an oyster bar in 19th-century London, created and offered his guests this secret mix of gin, quinine, and a spice blend as a tonic to aid digestion.
    Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 29 June 2023
  • One sip of the Jade Pendant (a mix of Japanese botanical gin, lime, lemongrass, quinine, citrus, and peppercorn) and you’ll already be tempted to order a second round.
    Joni Sweet, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Those medicinal plants include ginger and , which contains quinine, a treatment for malaria.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Hahnemann first observed that quinine’s effect of causing fever in a healthy person if taken was the same effect that malaria had on an infected person.
    Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2017

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