MEDICINE in a Sentence

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For MEDICINE, below is one of 134 sentences:
Here's a cigar, and the doctor has a prescription containing hot water and a lemon, which is good medicine on a night like this.

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 Meanings and Examples of MEDICINE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
medicine
 n.  treatment for illness or injury
 n.  a substance, like a liquid or a pill, that is a treatment for illness or injury
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  The pigs had sent out a large bottle of pink medicine which they had found in the medicine chest in the bathroom, and Clover administered it to Boxer twice a day after meals.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
2  Thy cunning may soon swell out once more thy shrivelled purse, but neither leech nor medicine can restore thy scorched hide and flesh wert thou once stretched on these bars.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  When this medical research was ended, the Saxon peasant desired humbly to have back the medicine which he had found so salutary; but the Grand Master frowned severely at the request.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Then there was a little medicine store, with bottles labelled Laudanum, Tincture of Myrrh, Ess.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
5  Mr. Bumble tasted the medicine with a doubtful look; smacked his lips; took another taste; and put the cup down empty.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  He declares himself, that coming to Lyme for a month, did him more good than all the medicine he took; and, that being by the sea, always makes him feel young again.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
7  The invalid sank back upon his cushions, tired out by this long recital, while his nurse poured him out a glass of some stimulating medicine.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
8  Here's a cigar, and the doctor has a prescription containing hot water and a lemon, which is good medicine on a night like this.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
9  The ideal of preventive medicine was attained.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
10  A medicine may be bitter, yet the patient will gladly take it when assured that only by its means can he recover.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
11  Though you do laugh at medicine, I am certain you can give me practical advice.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  I don't consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: I
13  Princess Mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively and calling the nurse began giving the medicine.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII
14  Prince Nicholas had always ridiculed medicine, but latterly on Mademoiselle Bourienne's advice had allowed this doctor to visit him and had grown accustomed to him.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III
15  The last medicine has done her a very great deal of good.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
16  Missing is like a disease, take much medicine or not.
17  How the disease started is one of medicine's great mysteries.
18  The medicine had a potent effect on your disease.
19  The doctor advised about many things other than medicine.
20  The medicine is an effective cure for a headache.
21  Empirical studies show that some forms of alternative medicine are extremely effective.
22  The medicine is effective for knocking colds.
23  The medicine is effective against cancer.
24  This medicine must be measured out exactly.
25  Getting food, medicine and blankets to flood victims is the most urgent priority.
26  Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
27  If the swelling should recur, please take this medicine immediately.
28  Apart from criminal investigation techniques, students learn forensic medicine, philosophy and logic.
29  Grief is itself a medicine.
30  This medicine is poisonous if taken in large quantities.