How to Use sleeping pill in a Sentence

sleeping pill

noun
  • Here’s what to know about three common sleeping pills for flights.
    — Moira Lawler, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Truong and her husband gave their daughters sleeping pills to keep them quiet.
    — Clayton Park, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024
  • In the kitchen trash were two empty bottles of sleeping pills, Smith said.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Michaels then called Marshall, who'd just taken a sleeping pill.
    — David Lee Simmons, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Katrina took a sleeping pill that evening and sat on her bed staring at the news.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2021
  • Her husband sedated her with sleeping pills and filmed the men abusing her.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
  • For the first time in two weeks, Trina Gray’s sleeping pills were working.
    — Wesley Lowery, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Mia also uses the hand on her own to try to talk to her mom, who died after taking too many sleeping pills.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 28 July 2023
  • Ye-jin no longer needs sleeping pills to rest, and Matthew is willing to accept help from others again.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 29 May 2026
  • Duke did take a sleeping pill the first night but woke up twice from errant master alarms and once from static in his earpiece.
    — Roger Simmons, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2019
  • Real sleeping pills, ones that work, are hard to obtain without a prescription.
    — Penny Hueston, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Long-term risks of sleeping pills can include daytime drowsiness and sleepwalking.
    — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The tears suddenly burst through levees finally breached by sleeping pills.
    — Alise Leslie, The Root, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Another, Mike, died of an overdose of sleeping pills in what was later ruled a suicide.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • The infant's grandmother, after taking a sleeping pill, joined her.
    — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • By the age of 10, she was prescribed sleeping pills to manage crippling insomnia.
    — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Also, avoid drinking or taking sleeping pills or other drugs (to deal with your phobia) unless prescribed by a doctor.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 2 Feb. 2025
  • In the same week, Anne overdosed on sleeping pills and my brother-in-law died in a motorcycle accident.
    — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Klinger also points out that this era marks the birth of the sleeping pill, the Communion wafer of the new century, with all its attendant miseries.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Wilson said, from his experience, the footballers turning to sleeping pills were often those with niggling injuries.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The girl was on sleeping pills, police say, and Turley was charged with trafficking a child and compelling prostitution of a minor.
    — Josh Magness, star-telegram, 24 Mar. 2018
  • On the day of the slayings, authorities said Youngblood gave the girls sleeping pill gummies beforeshe shot them.
    — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
  • North Korea has claimed Warmbier fell into a coma that resulted from botulism and a sleeping pill.
    — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2017
  • He was also prescribed Zyprexa as well as the sleeping pill Ambien and trazodone, which is often given to help patients sleep.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Elliot suffocated Sal and shoved sleeping pills down his throat after the former wanted to frame him for Andie’s murder.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 2 Aug. 2024
  • While surrounded by members of the Newman family, Jordan succumbed to a cup full of crushed sleeping pills.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
  • But there’s a cautionary tale in the precedent of Brezhnev, who spent his final years in the Kremlin addicted to sleeping pills.
    — Chris Miller, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The glycol water system was no quieter, and neither man chose to use earplugs or take a sleeping pill, a decision Bean later regretted.
    — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2017
  • Police suspect the couple put sleeping pills in hot chocolate the mother and children drank after the family ate fondue and played the card game Uno.
    — Lindsay Whitehurst, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Another detailed taking sleeping pills to get through nightly bombardments, and said people worry about power, gas and water cuts.
    — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Apr. 2026

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