How to Use cough drop in a Sentence

cough drop

noun
  • Sucking on a cough drop or lozenge may help throughout the day.
    — Hannah Jeon, Good Housekeeping, 1 Aug. 2022
  • While trapped in her car, Tooter had only cough drops and gum to eat.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Home remedies, such as cough drops, honey, and hot fluids, can get rid of a cough fast.
    — Jessica Migala, Health, 19 June 2024
  • Like cough drops, throat spray can provide quick relief for sore throats and comes in stronger, analgesic versions.
    — Jenna Anderson, Health, 26 June 2025
  • There are certainly people who need them -- the cough drop craze must have started with a real cough.
    — oregonlive, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Staying hydrated, sucking on cough drops, or taking a steamy shower can ease a dry cough.
    — Leah Groth, Health, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The cough drop, as always, promises to keep your illness between you and your remedy.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • Put your Vogues in chronological order and throw out all your expired spices and cough drops.
    — Shani Silver, refinery29.com, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Pumpkin spice cream cheese, hummus, peanut butter, marshmallows, kale chips, and cough drops are just a small handful of items to try.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The finish starts with more sharp white pepper, grapefruit, table sugar, sweeter oak, peach pits, hints of black licorice and cherry cough drop.
    — Chris Perugini, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The Slurpee version is unpleasantly medicinal, like a lemon cough drop.
    — Molly Fitzpatrick, Bon Appetit, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The kits, which will be limited to two per vehicle, will include items such as masks, hand sanitizer, gloves and cough drops.
    — Jeanne Houck, Cincinnati.com, 26 May 2020
  • This includes things like aspirin, Tylenol, tissues, honey, tea bags, cough drops, a thermometer, etc.
    — Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Tagle was sitting next to Prevost as the final vote was being tallied and offered the future pope a cough drop to soothe his throat, the book said.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Consumers who not long ago would have taken a cough drop or gargled with saltwater to soothe a sore throat now pop into their nearby retail clinic for a strep test.
    — Reed Abelson and Julie Creswell, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
  • The former president was caught sneaking Obama what was later said to be a cough drop during the funeral.
    — Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • Drinking plenty of fluid, inhaling steam, and sucking on cough drops can help alleviate a coughing fit.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 3 May 2024
  • Sh elived on rainwater, a cough drop — and determination.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The cool relief of a cough drop is no coincidence, as the menthol receptor both suppresses coughs and produces the cool feeling in your throat.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2012
  • The offices supplies a wellness table stocked with Airborne, cough drops and fruit provided throughout the flu season.
    — azcentral, 7 June 2018
  • Health coach Melissa Evans created these pops as an all-natural alternative to cough drops and lozenges.
    — Brittany Loggins, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Instead, when the team tightens up, his steady offense could be just the cough drop (or Heimlich maneuver) to keep Utah from heading home early.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Amazon, for example, might see that a customer has bought cough drops every week for the last month, and went to the doctor for a cold six weeks before but never filled their prescription.
    — Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2017
  • From cough drop to purple sweet potato, Nestle has experimented with some wacky KitKat flavors.
    — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 18 Jan. 2018
  • For the first few years after college, my acting career had been mostly Off Broadway theater, so my bank account consisted of four hugs and a cough drop.
    — New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • Water and dill pickles Directly off the stage, a lounge is stocked to the brim with tea, Ricola cough drops and vitamins to keep the auctioneers' throats in top shape.
    — Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 19 Jan. 2020
  • If your dry throat persists despite home remedies like staying hydrated or sucking on cough drops, talk to your healthcare provider about medical treatments and home remedies that can help improve symptoms.
    — Laura Schober, Health, 3 July 2024
  • Some of the drugs were discovered a century ago or earlier, including benzocaine (a local anesthetic sometimes put in cough drops) and quinidine (a treatment for heart rhythm disorders).
    — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2018
  • Then there are the Band-Aids, hand lotion, her passport, eye drops, cough drops, nail files, hand sanitizer, Fitbit batteries, a spare key to her car and Stevia packets.
    — Lainey Berkus, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The only thing that comes out of my pocket are tissues, receipts, loose cough drops, a movie stub for ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ which was, uhh, so-so and of course the little button in the baggie that comes with the pants.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2019

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