How to Use sleeping pill in a Sentence
sleeping pill
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Get up and take a sleeping pill, try to get back to sleep.
—The Cut, 13 May 2018
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Which is worse for you, lack of sleep or sleeping pills?
—Annie Lane, oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2020
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Here’s what to know about three common sleeping pills for flights.
—Moira Lawler, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2019
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For the first time in two weeks, Trina Gray’s sleeping pills were working.
—Wesley Lowery, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2017
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On Sunday she is given a sleeping pill and falls asleep.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 4 May 2023
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Katrina took a sleeping pill that evening and sat on her bed staring at the news.
—New York Times, 8 July 2021
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Michaels then called Marshall, who'd just taken a sleeping pill.
—David Lee Simmons, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2021
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Mia also uses the hand on her own to try to talk to her mom, who died after taking too many sleeping pills.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 28 July 2023
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Duke did take a sleeping pill the first night but woke up twice from errant master alarms and once from static in his earpiece.
—Roger Simmons, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2019
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Zolpidem is the generic name for the sleeping pill Ambien.
—Tracy Smith, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
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The news agency said Le Mesurier had taken sleeping pills.
—Fox News, 17 Dec. 2019
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Another, Mike, died of an overdose of sleeping pills in what was later ruled a suicide.
—Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
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By the age of 10, she was prescribed sleeping pills to manage crippling insomnia.
—Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2023
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Two of Adkisson’s sons, Chris and Kerry, died by suicide, and a third, Mike, died of an overdose of sleeping pills, which was later ruled a suicide.
—Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 15 May 2023
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But there’s a cautionary tale in the precedent of Brezhnev, who spent his final years in the Kremlin addicted to sleeping pills.
—Chris Miller, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
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In the same week, Anne overdosed on sleeping pills and my brother-in-law died in a motorcycle accident.
—Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 8 Aug. 2017
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Maroney went public with her story of abuse in October and recalled an instance in which Nassar gave her a sleeping pill for a flight to Japan.
—Chris Chavez, SI.com, 18 Jan. 2018
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Surprising Factoid: Even zonked on sleeping pills, one can still order fur coats and a restaurant’s worth of Chinese food.
—Alison Murphy, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
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Real sleeping pills, ones that work, are hard to obtain without a prescription.
—Penny Hueston, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
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She’s also endured her share of troubles, including an overdose on aspirin and sleeping pills in 2010 that put her in the hospital, as well as in the tabloids.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 14 Nov. 2023
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Police suspect the couple put sleeping pills in hot chocolate the mother and children drank after the family ate fondue and played the card game Uno.
—Lindsay Whitehurst, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
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Youngblood bought a gun on July 27 and, on the night of the killing, gave her daughters sleeping pill gummies before shooting them in their beds, prosecutors said.
—Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2023
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CVS Health is offering Sleepio just as health experts have soured on prescription sleeping pills.
—Natasha Singer, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2019
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The girl was on sleeping pills, police say, and Turley was charged with trafficking a child and compelling prostitution of a minor.
—Josh Magness, star-telegram, 24 Mar. 2018
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He was also prescribed Zyprexa as well as the sleeping pill Ambien and trazodone, which is often given to help patients sleep.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
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Long-term risks of sleeping pills can include daytime drowsiness and sleepwalking.
—Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 2 Aug. 2023
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Comedian Roseanne Barr blamed sleeping pills for the racist tweet that led to her show Roseanne‘s cancellation — then deleted a tweet that included the claim.
—Jamie Ducharme, Time, 30 May 2018
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In a series of late-night tweets, Barr appeared to blame the prescription sleeping pill Ambien for the racist tweet that led to her show's cancellation Tuesday.
—Gregg Re, Fox News, 30 May 2018
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The infant's grandmother, after taking a sleeping pill, joined her.
—Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
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Just two years later, amid a battle with depression and intense public scrutiny, Barrino tried to take her own life by swallowing sleeping pills and aspirin.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
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