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How to use aspirin in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Aspirin means an analgesic drug, acetylsalicylic acid. Example: “Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.”

Examples of aspirin by meaning

nounA tablet containing this substance.

  • I took heaven alone knows how many aspirins."1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 107
  • I got so worked up writing it that I had to take an aspirin and stop trembling after I finished.1965 January 31, Lou Sullivan, Diary

More sentences with aspirin

  • Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.From the entry drug
  • Acetyl and spiraeic acid are the eponymous main ingredients of aspirin.From the entry spiraeic acid
  • I take aspirin every day to thin my blood.From the entry take
  • He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.From the entry swallow
  • The corner drugstore doesn’t carry his favorite brand of aspirin.From the entry carry
  • Aspirin may help the achiness of my muscles from overworking.From the entry achiness
  • Aspirin is an alleviator of headaches.From the entry alleviator
  • These usually last for several hours, and require little more than aspirin and bed rest.2017 October 1, Edward McSweegan, “Lyme Disease: Questionable Diagnosis and Treatment”, in ActionLyme.org, archived from the original on…. From the entry herx
  • I had never taken a drug more deranging than aspirin and the milder antibiotics.2014, Judith Eubank, Crossover. From the entry deranging
  • Sulphadimidine tablets are often taken by people in the same manner as aspirin or panadol.2002, Siosiane Fanua Bloomfield, Illness and cure in Tonga: traditional and modern medical practice, page 57. From the entry panadol
  • FYI: metformin; janumet; pravastatin; lisinipril. digoxin; verapamil; trulicity; amlodopine; aspirin.2018 June 29, Chafetz Chayim ha'Yehu'di, “Harlan Ellison z"l...27 May 1934-28 June 2018”, in alt.arts.poetry.comments (Usenet), retrieved…. From the entry recreational medicine
  • Marni could imagine what she would say: "I prescribe two aspirins and then go straight to my bed, Sugarcakes."2004, Suzanne Walter, chapter 2, in To Catch a Cowgirl, Avalon Books, page 28. From the entry sugarcakes
  • Aspirins and beer for breakfast; the breakfast of champions.1995, Bill Granger, The New York Yanquis, Arcade Publishing, page 245. From the entry breakfast of champions
  • I surreptiously scotchtape a piece of fuzz swiped from the office aspirin bottle to the seat of my pants.1985, Carol Morris, Ironing Scott's Zen Suit, page 67. From the entry scotchtape
  • Giving aspirin to lower fever or prescribing antihypertensive drugs to treat high blood pressure are examples of antipathic medicine.1983, Andrew Weil, “Like Cures Like, and Less Is More”, in Health and Healing: Understanding Conventional and Alternative Medicine…. From the entry antipathic
  • You can summon groceries, alcohol and medicines to your home: chips and vodka on New Year’s Eve, say, and then aspirin on New Year’s Day.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian. From the entry summon
  • You go swig some Pepto-Bismol and I'll pop a couple of aspirin and I'll take you to the movies over on Nineteenth Street."2003, Caroline Slate Fractured Truth, page 136. From the entry Pepto-Bismol
  • Malachy brought me aspirins and vitamins and told me I'd be as right as rain in the morning and I wondered what that meant, right as rain.1999, Frank McCourt, Tis: A Memoir, page 322. From the entry right as rain

Meaning of aspirin

  1. noun An analgesic drug, acetylsalicylic acid.
  2. noun A tablet containing this substance.

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Questions about aspirin in a sentence

How do you use aspirin in a sentence?
Aspirin is used as a noun. For example: “Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.”
What is a short sentence with aspirin?
“Aspirin is an alleviator of headaches.”
What does aspirin mean?
Aspirin means an analgesic drug, acetylsalicylic acid.

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