How to Use quinine in a Sentence

quinine

noun
  • There’s also wild quinine and compass plant with leaves that align north to south.
    — Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • That changed when quinine was discovered to help prevent death from malaria.
    — Travis Loller, Fortune Well, 18 Apr. 2023
  • What wasn’t clear was how this enzyme broke down quinine in pregnant rabbits and in rabbit embryos.
    — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
  • There's aspirin, morphine, caffeine, cocaine, quinine, and many more.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2011
  • The quinine in tonic water will fluoresce a bright blue, as will the darkest spots on an overripe banana.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 24 May 2018
  • The bark of these trees, which were introduced by the Belgians, contains quinine, a drug that cures malaria.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • Correct answers were rewarded with yummy sucrose, and wrong ones with icky quinine.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2019
  • The chemicals used to process quinine are costly and come by lorry from Tanzania.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • In contrast, landing on cards with odd numbers resulted in a bitter-tasting quinine.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The bitter punch of quinine, the distinctive essence found in tonic water, hit the rats one second before the cocaine.
    — New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The premium light tonic is citrus forward with balanced quinine.
    — Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Those medicinal plants include ginger and , which contains quinine, a treatment for malaria.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2020
  • The aperitif wine Cocchi Rosa adds a lightly sweet, fruity note and the bitterness of quinine.
    — M. Carrie Allan, sacbee.com, 29 May 2017
  • This one is adapted from Modernist Cuisine, and the quinine in the tonic causes the sweets to glow under a black light.
    — Christina Bonnington, WIRED, 16 May 2012
  • In his day, there was little to offer the sick in the way of effective medicines—beyond, say, opiates or quinine—and few vaccines were available.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Lifesaving vaccines and drugs such as quinine have been discovered in terrestrial rain forests.
    — Brad King, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Chloroquine is a synthetic form of quinine, a centuries-old compound for malaria that is found in small amounts in products such as tonic water.
    — Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2020
  • The book's recipes go well beyond that, celebrating quinine in all its forms, including liqueurs that include cinchona and tonic syrup.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2021
  • In 1820 French chemists discovered how to extract quinine from cinchona.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Previous leafy finds from the Amazon led to the discovery of the rubber tree and the cinchona tree, which is used to make the malaria drug quinine.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2016
  • Be sure to start or end a meal with Violet Freres slightly bitter quinine aperitif.
    — Linda Bladholm, miamiherald, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The primary difference between the types of water is the addition of quinine in tonic water.
    — Alison Mango, Health, 1 June 2024
  • At the time, according to Forbes, quinine was accessible only by extracting it from a cinchona tree.
    — Katherine Eisenbrand, PEOPLE.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Supertasters could find the bitter chemicals in coffee, such as caffeine and quinine, overwhelming.
    — Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2022
  • Hahnemann first observed that quinine’s effect of causing fever in a healthy person if taken was the same effect that malaria had on an infected person.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Villagers make quinine from the bark of the native knobwood trees, and gondolosi roots are collected to sell as an aphrodisiac in the markets of Mutare.
    — Peter Browne, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Both start as regular wine, to which producers add botanicals (like wormwood and quinine), extra alcohol and some kind of sweet syrup, to create a red or white version.
    — Sofia Perez, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Even if the Brazilian quinas did contain quinine that could be extracted, that wouldn’t make their derivatives equal to hydroxychloroquine.
    — Jill Langlois, National Geographic, 4 June 2020
  • There was a glowing line that trailed through them, all the way back to that first early Pinay, a twentieth‑century almost‑girl, being taught by a white woman how to administer quinine to a malaria patient.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • More impressively, the bees who knew about the quinine consequence correctly chose the four-shape image when paired with a five-shape image 59% of the time, despite the tricky distinction.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019

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