How to Use hypodermic in a Sentence

hypodermic

adjective

• The man pulled out a hypodermic needle and threatened to stab the worker.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 5 May 2017
• The nurse popped one cartridge out of the hypodermic chamber and inserted the next.
  — Donald Antrim, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• The man said his backpack, which was in a Saturn Ion parked in the street, contained hypodermic needles.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2020
• The man had an invalid driver’s license and was found to have used hypodermic needles.
  — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 22 Feb. 2021
• Deputies found two hypodermic needles in the woman’s bra and conducted a strip search.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2017
• Police removed the backpack from the car and found three hypodermic syringes, part of a straw, a metal spoon and a crushed pill inside a small plastic bag.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2020
• Vaccines against the virus that causes Covid-19 are needling into shoulders around the world, the tip-of-the-hypodermic spear of a year-long scientific triumph.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 Mar. 2021
• Along Market Street, the wide boulevard that cleaves downtown, the chief paused to tell a fentanyl user to put away two hypodermic needles that lay on the pavement.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2021
• Hood points out that bed bug males use a hypodermic needle penises to simply pierce the female abdomen.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
• Klosek’s pocked was stuffed with fentanyl and hypodermic needles.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• Vetter explains in a statement that the leaves’ hairs act like hypodermic needles that inject venom into the skin.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
• Children walking to and from school often pass zoned-out drug addicts, and hypodermic needles litter some side streets.
  — J. David Goodman and Ashley Southall, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
• Investigators arrived and found a hypodermic needle on the roof of the car, and Schiller appeared to be overdosing.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2017
• Police found Heidi Naegele, 35, unconscious on the floor with a hypodermic needle and loaded syringe of heroin next to her, police said.
  — Mariel Padilla, Cincinnati.com, 17 July 2017
• The floor was covered in a plethora of hypodermic needles, which were properly destroyed later.
  — cleveland, 24 Sep. 2021
• Kumpfer faces sentences of up to two years and six months on each of two Level 6 felonies, possession of a hypodermic needle and possession of cocaine or a narcotic drug, according to court records.
  — Post-Tribune, 18 May 2017
• Tales abound of nightmarish encounters with the hypodermic-needle-like hairs of its leaves injecting a toxin that drives men to madness and has prompted horses to hurl themselves off cliffs.
  — Katherine J. Wu New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
• Inside the car was a backpack containing hypodermic syringes, a bent spoon, three glass stems and other drug paraphernalia.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 20 May 2021
• Splitt was in possession of hypodermic syringes and heroin, police said.
  — Phil Rockrohr, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
• Also on the table were two orange caps commonly used on hypodermic needles.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2021
• Levin’s research would solve a problem that had confounded doctors since the invention of hypodermic needles: how to ensure injections are clean and safe.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• A sixth woman, who accompanied the other five, was arrested after police found her with glass drug pipes, hypodermic needles and spoons.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 23 June 2017
• That's led a handful of start-ups to develop alternatives to hypodermic syringes.
  — Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 8 July 2018
• Police spotted used and unused hypodermic needles, three metal caps commonly used to heat heroin and several lighters in the couple’s car.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 18 June 2020
• The other suspect was in possession of hypodermic syringes.
  — Jake Richardson, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2019
• The police Narcotics Unit and Detective Bureau found 52 bags of heroin, crack cocaine and hypodermic needles, among other drug paraphernalia, at the home, police said.
  — Sandra Gomez-Aceves, courant.com, 7 July 2017
• Scattered through the room are heads: mannequin heads, papier-mâché heads, other heads, one sporting a costume-ball mask and feather headpiece, another wearing a wig and sunglasses, a third stabbed at the scalp with hypodermic syringes.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2017
• Police found an unidentified crystalline substance and hypodermic syringes in the Strongsville man’s vehicle.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 2 July 2021
• Load small amount of marinade into hypodermic meat injector.
  — Molly Kimball, NOLA.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• During the traffic stop, she was also charged with criminal possession of a hypodermic instrument.
  — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 17 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024