How to Use quinine in a Sentence

quinine

noun

• There’s also wild quinine and compass plant with leaves that align north to south.
  — Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2021
• This one is adapted from Modernist Cuisine, and the quinine in the tonic causes the sweets to glow under a black light.
  — Christina Bonnington, WIRED, 16 May 2012
• The bark of these trees, which were introduced by the Belgians, contains quinine, a drug that cures malaria.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• Suddenly the Axis powers had 95% of the world’s quinine.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
• Previous leafy finds from the Amazon led to the discovery of the rubber tree and the cinchona tree, which is used to make the malaria drug quinine.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2016
• The aperitif wine Cocchi Rosa adds a lightly sweet, fruity note and the bitterness of quinine.
  — M. Carrie Allan, sacbee.com, 29 May 2017
• Huguette was told she had malaria, and received the customary quinine treatment for five days.
  — Rachel Jones, National Geographic, 23 May 2019
• What wasn’t clear was how this enzyme broke down quinine in pregnant rabbits and in rabbit embryos.
  — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
• What wasn’t clear was how this enzyme broke down quinine in pregnant rabbits and in rabbit embryos.
  — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
• That changed when quinine was discovered to help prevent death from malaria.
  — Travis Loller, Fortune Well, 18 Apr. 2023
• The quinine in tonic water will fluoresce a bright blue, as will the darkest spots on an overripe banana.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 24 May 2018
• In his day, there was little to offer the sick in the way of effective medicines—beyond, say, opiates or quinine—and few vaccines were available.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• The sweet, dark-golden beverage is a mix of white tea, white cranberry, and ginger, with a hit of bitterness from quinine that tastes a lot like a spritzer.
  — Kate Krader | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2019
• The chemicals used to process quinine are costly and come by lorry from Tanzania.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• In 1820 French chemists discovered how to extract quinine from cinchona.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
• Villagers make quinine from the bark of the native knobwood trees, and gondolosi roots are collected to sell as an aphrodisiac in the markets of Mutare.
  — Peter Browne, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2019
• This easy drink is a G&T substitute for those who might not like the bitter quinine in tonic water or who love the simple refreshing bubble of a Ranch Water.
  — M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• Chloroquine is a synthetic form of quinine, a centuries-old compound for malaria that is found in small amounts in products such as tonic water.
  — Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2020
• More impressively, the bees who knew about the quinine consequence correctly chose the four-shape image when paired with a five-shape image 59% of the time, despite the tricky distinction.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
• There's aspirin, morphine, caffeine, cocaine, quinine, and many more.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2011
• The book's recipes go well beyond that, celebrating quinine in all its forms, including liqueurs that include cinchona and tonic syrup.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2021
• Correct answers were rewarded with yummy sucrose, and wrong ones with icky quinine.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2019
• James Pimm, a farmer's son who owned an oyster bar in 19th-century London, created it and offered his guests the secret mix of gin, quinine, and a spice blend as a tonic to aid digestion.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 2 June 2017
• Be sure to start or end a meal with Violet Freres slightly bitter quinine aperitif.
  — Linda Bladholm, miamiherald, 15 Feb. 2018
• In contrast, landing on cards with odd numbers resulted in a bitter-tasting quinine.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
• At the time, according to Forbes, quinine was accessible only by extracting it from a cinchona tree.
  — Katherine Eisenbrand, PEOPLE.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• James Pimm, a farmer's son who owned an oyster bar in 19th-century London, created and offered his guests this secret mix of gin, quinine, and a spice blend as a tonic to aid digestion.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 29 June 2023
• One sip of the Jade Pendant (a mix of Japanese botanical gin, lime, lemongrass, quinine, citrus, and peppercorn) and you’ll already be tempted to order a second round.
  — Joni Sweet, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• Those medicinal plants include ginger and , which contains quinine, a treatment for malaria.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2020
• Hahnemann first observed that quinine’s effect of causing fever in a healthy person if taken was the same effect that malaria had on an infected person.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024