How to Use penicillin in a Sentence

penicillin

noun
  • Claire packs a kit of medicine — penicillin in the 1760s?
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Elortegui said the mold involved is of the same family as penicillin.
    — al, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Ten years later penicillin was found to be a suitable treatment for syphilis.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 8 Feb. 2024
  • But this could not have happened, as penicillin was not yet widely available.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • Pfizer was mass-producing penicillin for the front lines, and so on.
    — New Atlas, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Each dose of injectable penicillin can cost hundreds of dollars.
    — Catherine Sweeney, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Each dose of injectable penicillin can cost hundreds of dollars.
    — Catherine Sweeney, Fortune Well, 2 Feb. 2024
  • There’s homemade penicillin, mold scraped off rotten fruit, an old Martha recipe.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Sep. 2022
  • David tells James to return to the camp and bring back two bottles of penicillin and a syringe.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The government took over all production of penicillin when war broke out.
    — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Back at the house, Ellie injects Joel with the penicillin, then lays with him.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Nothing against Jewish penicillin, but there’s more to life than matzo ball soup.
    — Joanna O'Leary, Chron, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The next day, the four mice given streptococci alone were dead while the four with penicillin were healthy.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026
  • The project went on for 40 years, even after penicillin became available.
    — Trisha Powell Crain | [email protected], al, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The advances that came out of World War II start with penicillin.
    — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • Pfizer's penicillin products have been in shortage since April.
    — Fox News, 13 June 2023
  • But by the 1940s, penicillin was found to have a near-perfect cure rate for the disease.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Even though penicillin had been proven to treat syphilis by 1947, these men were denied the treatment.
    — Jason Ashe, The Conversation, 24 June 2019
  • What’s the value of the most important medicine since the invention of penicillin?
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The same strain is still used to manufacture penicillin today, Price says.
    — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021
  • He was given the last rites by a local priest and was only saved by the first penicillin shipments that reached Italy.
    — Reagan Alexander, PEOPLE.com, 13 June 2019
  • Like golf, penicillin, television and so much else, curling is a gift from Scotland.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Some of those drugs include penicillin, Prozac, Zyprexa and Humulin.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Innovations such as penicillin and the measles vaccine have saved hundreds of millions of lives.
    — Bill Gates, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
  • That's one of the reasons scarlet fever was a leading cause of heart disease for adults before penicillin was discovered.
    — Meera Senthilingam and Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 27 Mar. 2018
  • It's been almost a century since the discovery of penicillin kicked off the era of antibiotics.
    — David Freeman, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The use of broad-spectrum penicillins—the most common type of antibiotics—increased by 36%.
    — Time, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Even when penicillin became widely used to treat syphilis in 1947, it was not offered to the test subjects.
    — NBC News, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Fungi have long been valuable to science, giving the world penicillin and other life-changing compounds.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • As penicillin was used to treat infections, cases declined in the 1950s.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024

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