How to Use painkiller in a Sentence

painkiller

noun
  • I took some over-the-counter painkillers for my headache.
  • Alamo gives Rue painkillers laced with fentanyl.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 1 June 2026
  • As the painkillers wear off, my postpartum tears feel so sore.
    — refinery29.com, 6 May 2020
  • The painkillers had caused an upset stomach.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Prince had been suffering from pain for some time and had turned to painkillers.
    — Kris Maher, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • That’s more than half of all painkillers shipped to the pharmacy those years.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Yeah, that’s a pretty squidgy line to draw in the sand between painkillers.
    — Jenna West and Eric Nehm, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Medicines like antibiotics and painkillers ran out.
    — ABC News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Plus, there will be times watching this team when only a cheap painkiller will do.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The cheapest painkillers cost around six cents, or ten Kenyan shillings, for a pack of two.
    — Elizabeth Wells and Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The team first weighed the blue heron and then administered a painkiller.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
  • Aspirin, at first a painkiller, is now also used to prevent blood clots.
    — Annette Bakker, STAT, 27 June 2023
  • Mature pain taking painkiller pill with glass of water.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Ali tests the bottle of painkillers and confirms they were laced with fentanyl.
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 1 June 2026
  • The pills are made to look like oxycodone, a painkiller with a high potential for abuse.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2020
  • At 21, a boyfriend introduced her to painkillers.
    — Michele Steeb, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Most households have a stash of painkillers tucked away for surprise headaches or stubborn cramps.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
  • Or that key medicines have come from ocean discoveries, like a painkiller found in a sea snail?
    — Berly McCoy, NPR, 21 July 2025
  • After some talk of hips, backs, surgeries, and painkillers, Tweedy went to get ready to play.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Very few people in pain are going to decline a painkiller, no matter what the cost.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
  • He was prescribed painkillers as a teenager for a series of sports injuries.
    — Henry Larweh, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2025
  • What made her recovery more difficult was the lack of heavy painkillers.
    — Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 19 Mar. 2023
  • She was told to take painkillers by her teachers, according to the complaint.
    — Michael Nied, People.com, 4 June 2025
  • Rue said the man who performed the procedure was not a doctor and didn’t give her painkillers.
    — Molly Gibbs, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • Officers found two guns and two prescription painkillers in the truck.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Long-term use of over-the-counter painkillers can lead to kidney damage or stomach ulcers.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Since coming home, the most troubled of them had turned to painkillers, alcohol, and even meth.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Rue returns to Alamo, who gives her a stack of cash and a bottle of painkillers for her trouble.
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 1 June 2026
  • Glover spent a night in the hospital, where she was given injections of a painkiller.
    — Sandra G. Boodman, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
  • Delaney, who also was addicted to painkillers at the time of his arrest, is now clean.
    — David Owens, courant.com, 2 Feb. 2018

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