How to Use hypodermic in a Sentence

hypodermic

adjective
  • The man pulled out a hypodermic needle and threatened to stab the worker.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 5 May 2017
  • Klosek’s pocked was stuffed with fentanyl and hypodermic needles.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Officers found on the road two hypodermic needles that the driver had thrown from the car.
    — cleveland, 5 July 2022
  • The man had an invalid driver’s license and was found to have used hypodermic needles.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The nurse popped one cartridge out of the hypodermic chamber and inserted the next.
    — Donald Antrim, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Deputies found two hypodermic needles in the woman’s bra and conducted a strip search.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2017
  • Palm trees whip in a storm outside the window; the light catches on the hypodermic on the bedside table.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 14 May 2026
  • The man said his backpack, which was in a Saturn Ion parked in the street, contained hypodermic needles.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Vetter explains in a statement that the leaves’ hairs act like hypodermic needles that inject venom into the skin.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Also on the table were two orange caps commonly used on hypodermic needles.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Splitt was in possession of hypodermic syringes and heroin, police said.
    — Phil Rockrohr, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
  • Police removed the backpack from the car and found three hypodermic syringes, part of a straw, a metal spoon and a crushed pill inside a small plastic bag.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The floor was covered in a plethora of hypodermic needles, which were properly destroyed later.
    — cleveland, 24 Sep. 2021
  • That's led a handful of start-ups to develop alternatives to hypodermic syringes.
    — Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 8 July 2018
  • Inside the car was a backpack containing hypodermic syringes, a bent spoon, three glass stems and other drug paraphernalia.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 20 May 2021
  • Investigators arrived and found a hypodermic needle on the roof of the car, and Schiller appeared to be overdosing.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2017
  • During the traffic stop, she was also charged with criminal possession of a hypodermic instrument.
    — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Along Market Street, the wide boulevard that cleaves downtown, the chief paused to tell a fentanyl user to put away two hypodermic needles that lay on the pavement.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Tales abound of nightmarish encounters with the hypodermic-needle-like hairs of its leaves injecting a toxin that drives men to madness and has prompted horses to hurl themselves off cliffs.
    — Katherine J. Wu New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Police found an unidentified crystalline substance and hypodermic syringes in the Strongsville man’s vehicle.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 2 July 2021
  • His job included helping expand the division’s sideline in hypodermic and suture needles.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • Vaccines against the virus that causes Covid-19 are needling into shoulders around the world, the tip-of-the-hypodermic spear of a year-long scientific triumph.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Characters also use hypodermic needles to inject a secret formula.
    — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Kumpfer faces sentences of up to two years and six months on each of two Level 6 felonies, possession of a hypodermic needle and possession of cocaine or a narcotic drug, according to court records.
    — Post-Tribune, 18 May 2017
  • The bill to decriminalize possession of certain drug paraphernalia was focused mostly on hypodermic needles.
    — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
  • Officers were able to awaken him and during the investigation, found several items of drug paraphernalia including two hypodermic needles.
    — cleveland, 30 Sep. 2020
  • When the mother questioned a funeral home employee about the body's appearance, the worker took out a hypodermic needle and injected a substance, believed to be embalming fluid, into the body's face, the suit alleged.
    — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 3 July 2017
  • Additionally, Nicolls added that parents of the baseball players that utilize the elementary school field received letters urging them to look for hypodermic needles prior to games before use of the field was suspended entirely.
    — Nikolas Lanum, Fox News, 25 May 2021
  • The suspect, of Harwinton, was found in possession of a razor box cutter, hypodermic needles, THC edibles and other drug paraphernalia.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 20 June 2017
  • The police Narcotics Unit and Detective Bureau found 52 bags of heroin, crack cocaine and hypodermic needles, among other drug paraphernalia, at the home, police said.
    — Sandra Gomez-Aceves, courant.com, 7 July 2017

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