How to Use morphine in a Sentence

morphine

noun

• The next day he is put on morphine and is more-or-less unconscious for most of the time.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 21 Dec. 2022
• Taylor soon seemed to be in so much pain that staff gave her morphine.
  — oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2021
• To escape the asylum, Zephyr lays off the morphine and quits cursing.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 May 2021
• The drug is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
• The drug is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine, and just a small dose can be deadly.
  — John Miller, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
• In the hospital, Penn saw how the morphine relieved his pain.
  — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
• Fentanyl is up to 100 times more potent than morphine, and small amounts can kill.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2021
• But with morphine there is a chance for death with dignity.
  — SFChronicle.com, 25 Dec. 2019
• Ankhal kept begging to see his family and was put on morphine to ease the pain of his injuries.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2022
• Once morphine brought her pain under control, the woman had time to think.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• Hofschulz had prescribed five oxycodone tablets per day and Eberl was to take morphine twice a day.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2021
• The poison is 200 times more potent than morphine in some species, and it is stored in skin glands and secreted when the frog is threatened.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2024
• Many doctors were ignorant of morphine or scared to use it.
  — CBS News, 26 Dec. 2019
• The bombardier applied a tourniquet and shot him with morphine but the leg could not be saved; it was amputated the next day.
  — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• The bombardier applied a tourniquet and shot him with morphine, but the leg could not be saved; it was amputated the next day.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2020
• In the emergency room, Wilkes received morphine and a catheter, and he was released with the catheter still connected.
  — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2021
• My brother the doctor gives Má morphine while my sister-in-law the doctor watches.
  — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2023
• Even 2 milligrams of the synthetic opioid, which is 100 times stronger than morphine, can cause death.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• Opioid painkillers include pills such as oxycodone as well as morphine or codeine, but not methadone.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• The synthetic opioid is up to 100 times more potent than morphine.
  — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
• The use of morphine, the cheapest and most reliable painkiller, stagnated.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2019
• Fentanyl — the synthetic opioid that can be 100 times stronger than morphine —has been shaking the country and the state with overdose deaths.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2022
• In May of 2020, a friend found O'Neal, who had overdosed on a mix of morphine, opiates and pain medication, in her apartment.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
• Though Cieski had been prescribed morphine to ease his pain, the facility had failed to note it on his chart and didn’t have any of the drug available for him.
  — Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2022
• Marta’s morphine mistake is shown to have been a set-up: Someone else had switched the medicine labels, meaning Marta hadn’t erred on the job.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2019
• That surge was due in part to an influx of fentanyl, the opium derivative as much as 100 times stronger than morphine.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2022
• Eventually, they were weaned off some of the machines and given morphine, to keep them from hungering for air at the end.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 30 Dec. 2020
• To help with the withdrawal, Laurie injects Rue with morphine.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 7 Feb. 2022
• Letby agreed that the child was given an infusion of morphine around 4 a.m. and that a portable X-ray showed the breathing tube in the correct location around 6:10 a.m.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 26 June 2024
• Ancient Egyptians soothed their wounds with aloe-vera gel; morphine and codeine came from the opium poppy; Ozempic was inspired by a peptide in lizard venom.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024