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How to use pharmacy in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun

Pharmacy means a place where prescription drugs are sold or dispensed. Example: “In that neighborhood, you could find a dealer for any drug, a whole pharmacy of chemical distractions.”

Examples of pharmacy by meaning

nounA collection, group or set of drugs or similar products; a set of drugs taken.

  • In that neighborhood, you could find a dealer for any drug, a whole pharmacy of chemical distractions.
  • He hoped to get off the pharmacy of medications that quack put him on.
  • Her garden was a pharmacy of herbs.

More sentences with pharmacy

  • The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.From the entry right
  • The queue in the pharmacy was a glacier.From the entry glacier
  • Patients who come to the pharmacy counter may remember the trade name of their prescription but not the nonproprietary name, or vice versa.From the entry trade name
  • A family-owned pharmacy in Woodland was vandalized earlier Sunday morning in a potential hate crime.2026 August 16, Kayla Moeller, “Woodland family-owned pharmacy vandalized in potential hate crime”, in CBS News, archived from the…. From the entry woodland
  • Starting with a small pharmacy tent, his work rapidly expanded, powered by donations from ordinary citizens.2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian. From the entry power
  • As a Medicaid pharmacy director, I have a concern about whitebagging non self-injected products.2013, Linda, “Payers Want Specialty Drug Distribution to Change”, in Drug Channels. From the entry whitebagging
  • Pharmacies have been told to contact those who have gotten the faultily packaged pills.2011 September 16, “Birth control pills recalled due to ‘packaging error’”, in CNN, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2021. From the entry faultily
  • The state of Jalisco hired a single pharmacy company to provide all such medicines statewide.2011, Marc J. Roberts, Michael R. Reich, Pharmaceutical Reform, The World Bank, →ISBN, page 152. From the entry statewide
  • It died, although a bill requiring pharmacy benefit manager licensing and reporting did pass and was signed by McKee.2026 August 26, Patrick Anderson, “These are the biggest policy differences between McKee and Foulkes”, in The Providence Journal…. From the entry PBM
  • The economic status of the apotheke (pharmacy) is due for revision in the new state of Western Germany.1950, Pharmacy International, volume 4, page 39, column 1. From the entry apotheke
  • Medicinal herbs and minerals not included in the two published catalogues could be sold not only in pharmacies, but also in oilery and green shops.2019, Elena Vishlenkova, Sergei Zatravkin, “Polish medicine in the Russian Empire in the first third of the 19th century”, in Kwartalnik…. From the entry oilery
  • This is a situation that cries out for an ooch, and an obvious one would be to work in a pharmacy for a few weeks.2013, Chip Heath, Dan Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, New York, N.Y.: Crown Business, Crown Publishing…. From the entry ooch
  • With whitebagging, the drug is dispensed for a particular patient and can't be returned to the pharmacy or used on another patient.2013, Linda, “Payers Want Specialty Drug Distribution to Change”, in Drug Channels. From the entry whitebagging
  • The report complained of "a clear nexus between private medical practitioners and pharmacy shops," and "fee-splitting between diagnostic centres and referring doctors."2008 March 25, Manjeet Kripalani, “Indian Pharma: Hooked on the Hard Sell”, in Businessweek. From the entry fee splitting
  • Just before he'd slipped into a coma, he'd had the strong urge to run to a pharmacy and slug down some Pepto-Bismol.2004, Wendy Etherington, If The Stiletto Fits..., page 127. From the entry Pepto-Bismol
  • This study was performed to measure the work activity components for the decentral pharmacy technician teams at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics (UWH&C).1982, Robert G. Swendrzynski, Work Sampling of Decentral Pharmacy Technicians. From the entry decentral
  • People who couldn’t wait for the real thing began to turn to specialized pharmacies that cook up Ozempic knock-offs as if it were bathtub gin, sometimes with tragic results.2025 January 13, Virginia Heffernan, “The King of Ozempic Is Scared as Hell. Now that Novo Nordisk is the world’s weight-loss juggernaut…. From the entry rialto
  • Most large PBMs operate their own mail-order and specialty pharmacies, but CVS is the only major PBM that owns its own retail pharmacy, according to the Brookings Institution.2024 December 11, Andrew Stanton, “Senators Turn Screws on Health Care Industry as CEO Shooting Fuels Scrutiny”, in Newsweek. From the entry CVS
  • His father, a pharmacotherapist, is the associate dean for academic affairs and a professor of pharmacy practice and science at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore.2009 September 13, “Julie Levison, Joshua Roffman”, in New York Times. From the entry pharmacotherapist
  • PHARMACY CUSTOMERS prefer 4x6in prints — 80 per cent; like next-day service — 42 per cent (only 4 per cent of all pharmacy prints are re-prints or enlargements).1995 March 18, “Film facts”, in Chemist & Druggist, page 454. From the entry re-print
  • The use of modified unit-dose rather than eight separate pharmacies with an individual prescription system could have prevented virtually all of these inappropriate schedulings of drugs.1991, James W. Cooper, Drug-Related Problems in Geriatric Nursing Home Patients, page 111. From the entry scheduling
  • And, by goodness, the door was ajar into the hall, for Constance had slipped out to the nearest pharmacy in search of a febrifuge for her fever-bound lover.1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1131. From the entry febrifuge

Meaning of pharmacy

  1. noun A place where prescription drugs are sold or dispensed.
  2. noun The science of medicinal substances, inclusive of pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry, and forensics.
  3. noun The role or occupation of a pharmacist.

Full definition of pharmacy

Questions about pharmacy in a sentence

How do you use pharmacy in a sentence?
Pharmacy is used as a noun. For example: “In that neighborhood, you could find a dealer for any drug, a whole pharmacy of chemical distractions.”
What is a short sentence with pharmacy?
“Her garden was a pharmacy of herbs.”
What does pharmacy mean?
Pharmacy means a place where prescription drugs are sold or dispensed.

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