How to Use aspirin in a Sentence

aspirin

noun
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  • Aspirin is effective in controlling headaches.
  • While aspirin can have benefits in heart attack treatment, no one should take daily low-dose aspirin during a heart attack or as a preventive treatment unless advised to do so by your healthcare provider.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Complications such as preeclampsia, a spike in blood pressure that can lead to premature births, can also be avoided by prescribing low doses of aspirin to people at high risk, Tabales says.
    — Kristal Dixon, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The station has too many headaches and not enough cash to pay for the aspirin.
    — Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2024
  • To make the paste, crush an aspirin with a spoon and swirl it with a few drops of water.
    — Sarah Wu, Glamour, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Heparin and low-dose aspirin to reduce the risk of blood clots.
    — USA Today, 14 Mar. 2021
  • And don't forget to have aspirin at hand the next morning.
    — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 15 July 2019
  • All of us have been taking aspirin for headaches and muscle aches for the last many decades.
    — NBC News, 25 Apr. 2021
  • When this runs out, some people will tell you to pop an aspirin in the water.
    — Laura Lane, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2023
  • While ibuprofen or aspirin can help with the headache or body aches, steer clear from Tylenol, the experts warn.
    — Kimberly Hickok, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The company hired a doctor who told the workers to take some aspirin and get back to work.
    — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Tomas’ body aches would be dulled by aspirin, but would never go away.
    — Aidan McGloin, oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2020
  • That when Pierre Louis told officers his thought the pills were aspirin, records show.
    — Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The scientists will remove aspirin-size cores from along the flat center line of the tusk.
    — Author: Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Sep. 2017
  • A quantity the size of an aspirin tablet is enough to kill more than four hundred quail.
    — Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1950
  • The numbers passed the threshold; the team concluded that the aspirin was working.
    — Hannah Fry, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Stat! Low-dose aspirin has been linked to anemia in older adults.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • If this is a Super Bowl hangover, no aspirin will cure it.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2022
  • At the end of the 60s there came a wave of ball bearings, aspirins, cocktail olives: small, round things tumbling in picture space.
    — Mark Rozzo, Vanities, 30 May 2018
  • For all our readers under the age of 55, Bufferin is an aspirin product.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Yes, but there's a new study out that says champagne and aspirin is excellent for you.
    — Fox News, 25 May 2018
  • Saner heads, and perhaps a few aspirins, prevailed in the morning light and no deal was struck.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Were the patients who were more likely to live given aspirin?
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • His chest tightened, a pressure that has led to a daily aspirin habit.
    — USA Today, 13 May 2020
  • Maybe next the White House will advise women to just stick an aspirin between our knees.
    — Jessica Valenti, Marie Claire, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The elixir, made with pine (nature’s aspirin, FYI) and vinegar, tastes like forest-y cough syrup.
    — Rachelle Robinett, Bon Appetit, 10 May 2017
  • But not enough pregnant women are getting the word that low-dose aspirin can help.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 1 May 2024
  • Made from small pieces of shale or mudstone, each bead had to be ground into a disc roughly half the size of an aspirin, then drilled with a hole.
    — National Geographic, 1 July 2017
  • These blood clots would benefit from the patient taking aspirin.
    — Mill Etienne, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Additives and fertilizers, such as xylitol and aspirin, are harmful to cats if consumed.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024

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