How to Use druggist in a Sentence

druggist

noun
  • Your local druggist can fill the prescription.
  • Yet questioning both the medical student and the druggist led the police nowhere, and over the next few days, all leads ran dry.
    — Paula Larsson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
  • His great aunts and uncles included a steamboat captain, a doctor, a druggist and a sister who cared for the parents.
    — Samantha Stetzer, The Seattle Times, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Back in 1833, two men — a miller and a druggist who grew herbs — decided to make and sell drugs and essential oils.
    — Dallas News, 17 Jan. 2021
  • More than 10 local physicians and druggists signed the ad as well, and dozens of customers testified to the ice's quality.
    — NOLA.com, 10 May 2017
  • In London, for instance, deaths in October at the height of the killing wave were running at 4,500 a week, and there was panic buying at druggists.
    — Mark Honigsbaum, The New York Review of Books, 17 Mar. 2020
  • In a Texas case, the druggist was charged with a misdemeanor, Cadden's lawyer, Bruce Singal, noted in a 60-page sentencing memo.
    — Walter F. Roche Jr., USA TODAY, 26 June 2017
  • Pemberton, a pharmacist, sold the formula to a fellow-druggist, Asa Griggs Candler, and for years it could be found only at white soda fountains.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
  • PBMs negotiate drug prices with drug companies on behalf of insurance companies and other payers, then communicate those prices to druggists at the retail level.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • In early May a Dayton mine manager and a local druggist (the latter also part-time chairman of the schoolbook committee) met with John Scopes, a young high school science teacher, to discuss resistance.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 10 July 2018
  • Applied botany was, to Hosack’s mind, important for everyone — farmers, druggists, manufacturers — but especially his Columbia medical students.
    — Marta McDowell, New York Times, 25 June 2018

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