How to Use sleeping pill in a Sentence

sleeping pill

noun

• Get up and take a sleeping pill, try to get back to sleep.
  — The Cut, 13 May 2018
• Which is worse for you, lack of sleep or sleeping pills?
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2020
• Here’s what to know about three common sleeping pills for flights.
  — Moira Lawler, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2019
• For the first time in two weeks, Trina Gray’s sleeping pills were working.
  — Wesley Lowery, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2017
• On Sunday she is given a sleeping pill and falls asleep.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 4 May 2023
• Katrina took a sleeping pill that evening and sat on her bed staring at the news.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2021
• Michaels then called Marshall, who'd just taken a sleeping pill.
  — David Lee Simmons, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Zolpidem is the generic name for the sleeping pill Ambien.
  — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
• The news agency said Le Mesurier had taken sleeping pills.
  — Fox News, 17 Dec. 2019
• Another, Mike, died of an overdose of sleeping pills in what was later ruled a suicide.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
• By the age of 10, she was prescribed sleeping pills to manage crippling insomnia.
  — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Real sleeping pills, ones that work, are hard to obtain without a prescription.
  — Penny Hueston, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• CVS Health is offering Sleepio just as health experts have soured on prescription sleeping pills.
  — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Long-term risks of sleeping pills can include daytime drowsiness and sleepwalking.
  — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 2 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The infant's grandmother, after taking a sleeping pill, joined her.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024