How to Use cough syrup in a Sentence

cough syrup

noun
  • First things first, avoid giving cough syrups and cough medicine to young children.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 10 July 2023
  • This one will be harder to swallow than a crow coated in cough syrup.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 10 Oct. 2021
  • But the app did unlock the cabinet next to the one with the cough syrup.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Maybe buying a gun will be a little harder than buying cough syrup.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 11 July 2019
  • Imagine you are hopped up on cough syrup awaiting the results of a Covid test.
    — Faran Krentcil, ELLE, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The kind of illnesses for which a doctor would prescribe cough syrup.
    — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Just go to a drug store and try to buy cough syrup or fever-reducing medication.
    — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor dec. 13, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The humectant also helps cough syrups coat and lubricate your throat while treating a cold.
    — Carley Millhone, Health, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Asians shared photos of Nin Jiom cough syrup derived from loquat leaves.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2021
  • Codeine is an addictive opioid that is often prescribed to treat pain and is mixed in with some cough syrups.
    — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 4 May 2018
  • Grapes and baby bottles are the calling cards for codeine-containing cough syrup, or lean.
    — Mattha Busby, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The thermal cup, which smelled like alcohol and cough syrup, was located.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Pulled over by police and charged with a DUI for that cough syrup in your cup holder?
    — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Orders are placed at the cash register, next to a stash of Mentos mints and bottles of cough syrup.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The ministry also said the cough syrup was incorrectly used by parents.
    — Swati Gupta, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Many taste like confections made according to some recipe; some taste like candy or cough syrup, anything but pinot noir.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
  • One of the suspects held a gun to the back of an employee’s head, while the robbers took cash and prescription cough syrup.
    — Tony Rizzo, kansascity, 28 June 2018
  • Liquid products, such as cough syrup, should be sealed in their original container.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • People shuffled in and out, bringing Tylenol and cough syrup, dressed head-to-toe in protective gear.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Lozenges and cough syrups with manuka honey can be an effective cold and flu remedy, Guan says.
    — Erica Sweeney, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2023
  • She was sent home that same day, with cough syrup, an inhaler and antianxiety medication.
    — Christopher Weaver, WSJ, 7 July 2017
  • The liquid, with a mild smell that suggested cough syrup, left a glossy, evaporating film on surfaces.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The dye will no longer be allowed in food, drinks, dietary supplements, and oral medications like cough syrups.
    — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 16 Jan. 2025
  • His coughing was so persistent that after dinner the trio stopped at a convenience store to purchase cough syrup for him.
    — Elliott Hester, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Medications Do not grab that expired cough syrup from your cabinet and head toward the sink to pour it out.
    — Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Five groups that lobbied on House Bill 9, which bans over-the-counter sale of dextromethorphan cough syrup to children.
    — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 15 July 2021
  • The two brew up a vat of killer punch (the ingredients include cough syrup and pickle juice) and wait for the amorous adventures to happen.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 28 May 2021
  • The elixir, made with pine (nature’s aspirin, FYI) and vinegar, tastes like forest-y cough syrup.
    — Rachelle Robinett, Bon Appetit, 10 May 2017
  • Codeine cough syrup was, simply, syrup—then sizzurp, lean, mud, my cup, the dirty, and so on, from Texas to Atlanta and beyond.
    — Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Sandra Martinez had a mild cough and was sent home with steroids and cough syrup, according to Olivia Martinez.
    — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2022

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