How to Use morphine in a Sentence

morphine

noun

• At the end of his life, Anslinger took morphine for the pain.
  — David Blistein, Time, 12 Aug. 2019
• The next day he is put on morphine and is more-or-less unconscious for most of the time.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 21 Dec. 2022
• Taylor soon seemed to be in so much pain that staff gave her morphine.
  — oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2021
• To escape the asylum, Zephyr lays off the morphine and quits cursing.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 May 2021
• The drug is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
• The drug is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine, and just a small dose can be deadly.
  — John Miller, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
• In the hospital, Penn saw how the morphine relieved his pain.
  — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
• Fentanyl is up to 100 times more potent than morphine, and small amounts can kill.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2021
• Fraser had lethal levels of morphine at the time of her death, Eberlein said.
  — oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2019
• But with morphine there is a chance for death with dignity.
  — SFChronicle.com, 25 Dec. 2019
• Ankhal kept begging to see his family and was put on morphine to ease the pain of his injuries.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2022
• Once morphine brought her pain under control, the woman had time to think.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• It’s like shooting yourself in the foot just to get another dose of morphine.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• Hofschulz had prescribed five oxycodone tablets per day and Eberl was to take morphine twice a day.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2021
• The truth of Bruce, of course, is that he was found naked and dead on a bathroom floor in 1966, officially from a morphine overdose.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 27 Oct. 2019
• The poison is 200 times more potent than morphine in some species, and it is stored in skin glands and secreted when the frog is threatened.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2024
• Many doctors were ignorant of morphine or scared to use it.
  — CBS News, 26 Dec. 2019
• The bombardier applied a tourniquet and shot him with morphine but the leg could not be saved; it was amputated the next day.
  — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• The bombardier applied a tourniquet and shot him with morphine, but the leg could not be saved; it was amputated the next day.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2020
• In the emergency room, Wilkes received morphine and a catheter, and he was released with the catheter still connected.
  — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2021
• My brother the doctor gives Má morphine while my sister-in-law the doctor watches.
  — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2023
• Even 2 milligrams of the synthetic opioid, which is 100 times stronger than morphine, can cause death.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• Opioid painkillers include pills such as oxycodone as well as morphine or codeine, but not methadone.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• Fentanyl is at least 100 times more potent than morphine.
  — Ryan Hampton, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
• The synthetic opioid is up to 100 times more potent than morphine.
  — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
• The use of morphine, the cheapest and most reliable painkiller, stagnated.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2019
• Oxycodone, the opioid in OxyContin, is one and a half times more potent than morphine.
  — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2019
• She was treated with morphine, and her wound was debrided.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• These include morphine, codeine, oxycodone and hydrocodone, with brand names OxyContin, Vicodin and Lortab.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
• His jaw cancer worsened until his benefit from a lethal morphine injection in 1939.
  — Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024