How to Use aspirin in a Sentence

aspirin

noun

• Aspirin is effective in controlling headaches.
• 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 embargo means that shortages exist for drugs as common as aspirin.
  — Sarah Zhang, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2016
• Take two aspirin and follow her five-step plan for entertaining the reverend and his missus.
  — Southern Living, 2 Mar. 2017
• Make a paste using ground aspirin and water, and apply it over the yellowed area before laundering.
  — Womansday.com Staff, Woman's Day, 9 June 2010
• For example, the medicinal effect of the bark of the willow, from which aspirin is derived, has been known for centuries.
  — Alexandra Gekas, Woman's Day, 31 Mar. 2011
• According to Heloise, adding sugar, Sprite, or aspirin to the water doesn't do anything to help your tree stay perky.
  — Lauren Smith, Good Housekeeping, 8 Dec. 2015
• That includes controlling blood pressure and cholesterol and perhaps taking a daily aspirin.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
• For a less fragrant option, Goldstein recommends crushing an aspirin with water into a paste.
  — Liz Krieger, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Nov. 2015
• That means quitting smoking, exercising, eating a healthy diet and perhaps taking a daily aspirin.
  — Carla K. Johnson, Orange County Register, 18 Jan. 2017
• The young technician went home but then developed a severe cough and temperature; her doctor prescribed aspirin and antibiotics.
  — Susan Scutti, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2014
• At the time, the former president was said to be taking a drug to lower cholesterol, an aspirin daily to prevent heart disease and a medication for male-pattern hair loss.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2024
• For example, taking vitamin E or fish oil along with medications that thin the blood (such as Coumadin or aspirin) could lead to persistent bleeding, bruising or even stroke.
  — Stacey Colino, Woman's Day, 4 Aug. 2015
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024