How to Use penicillin in a Sentence

penicillin

noun

• By D-Day, 90% of the penicillin shipped to the war front was made by Pfizer.
  — John Lamattina, STAT, 30 Apr. 2020
• The advances that came out of World War II start with penicillin.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
• But by the 1940s, penicillin was found to have a near-perfect cure rate for the disease.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2019
• Back at the house, Ellie injects Joel with the penicillin, then lays with him.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• David tells James to return to the camp and bring back two bottles of penicillin and a syringe.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• Elortegui said the mold involved is of the same family as penicillin.
  — al, 27 Sep. 2019
• Even though penicillin had been proven to treat syphilis by 1947, these men were denied the treatment.
  — Jason Ashe, The Conversation, 24 June 2019
• The discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928 changed the course of medicine.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2022
• What’s the value of the most important medicine since the invention of penicillin?
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2020
• Some of those drugs include penicillin, Prozac, Zyprexa and Humulin.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2019
• He was given the last rites by a local priest and was only saved by the first penicillin shipments that reached Italy.
  — Reagan Alexander, PEOPLE.com, 13 June 2019
• The hot toddy is not penicillin (neither is the Penicillin, for that matter!).
  — M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
• Even when penicillin became widely used to treat syphilis in 1947, it was not offered to the test subjects.
  — NBC News, 3 Dec. 2020
• Ten years later penicillin was found to be a suitable treatment for syphilis.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 8 Feb. 2024
• Whether it’s homemade or store-bought, a little Jewish penicillin will go a long way.
  — Arielle Kaplan, sun-sentinel.com, 31 July 2019
• The project went on for 40 years, even after penicillin became available.
  — Trisha Powell Crain | [e-mail], al, 23 Mar. 2021
• Pfizer is the nation’s sole supplier of the penicillin shot.
  — Bymike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 8 Nov. 2023
• The newborn is started on an IV treatment with penicillin.
  — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
• There’s homemade penicillin, mold scraped off rotten fruit, an old Martha recipe.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Sep. 2022
• At least in the Guatemala study, the victims were treated with penicillin since its purpose was to gauge the effectiveness of the treatment.
  — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2021
• The use of broad-spectrum penicillins—the most common type of antibiotics—increased by 36%.
  — Time, 26 Mar. 2018
• As penicillin was used to treat infections, cases declined in the 1950s.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• As penicillin was used to treat infections, cases declined in the 1950s.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• But this could not have happened, as penicillin was not yet widely available.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• Nothing against Jewish penicillin, but there’s more to life than matzo ball soup.
  — Joanna O'Leary, Chron, 15 Oct. 2021
• Each dose of injectable penicillin can cost hundreds of dollars.
  — Catherine Sweeney, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
• Each dose of injectable penicillin can cost hundreds of dollars.
  — Catherine Sweeney, Fortune Well, 2 Feb. 2024
• The government took over all production of penicillin when war broke out.
  — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2019
• The same strain is still used to manufacture penicillin today, Price says.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021
• For a heartier spin on Jewish penicillin, add egg noodles, white rice, or kreplach, dumplings made with ground beef and onion, to the chicken broth for $1.
  — Samantha Nelson, RedEye Chicago, 24 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024