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But for those areas rich in natural resources and industry, the prospect of handing power back to Moscow is a bitter pill to swallow.

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 Meanings and Examples of PILL
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pill
 n.  a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet; something that is unpleasant or offensive
Classic Sentence:
1  I was a fairly good dispenser, so I worked this alkaloid into small, soluble pills, and each pill I put in a box with a similar pill made without the poison.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
2  I determined at the time that when I had my chance, my gentlemen should each have a draw out of one of these boxes, while I ate the pill that remained.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
3  From that day I had always my pill boxes about with me, and the time had now come when I was to use them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4  He turned it about in his mouth much longer than usual, pondering over it a good deal, and after all gulped it down like a pill.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
5  "I will now cut one of these pills in two," said Holmes, and drawing his penknife he suited the action to the word.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
6  The very pills which I suspected in the case of Drebber are actually found after the death of Stangerson.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
7  Of the two pills in that box one was of the most deadly poison, and the other was entirely harmless.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
8  I described Drebber's death to him, and I gave him the same choice of the poisoned pills.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
9  Through it, as you know, I came into possession of the pills, the existence of which I had already surmised.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
10  These two ingredients are mixed in equal proportions, and formed into pills.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
11  The casket passed around the table, but it was more to examine the admirable emerald than to see the pills that it passed from hand to hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
12  Miss Sarah," said Joe, "she have twenty-five pound perannium fur to buy pills, on account of being bilious.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVII
13  But now we know that these little pills of classical learning possess the medicinal property of anti-nihilism, and we boldly prescribe them to our patients.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 10
14  If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
15  How to cure such a dyspepsia it were hard to say, unless by administering three or four boat loads of Brandreth's pills, and then running out of harm's way, as laborers do in blasting rocks.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  But for those areas rich in natural resources and industry, the prospect of handing power back to Moscow is a bitter pill to swallow.
2  The pill is one method of birth-control.
3  According to the packet, these vitamin pills will restore lost vitality.
4  Doctors can treat acne with pills or creams.
5  Apothecaries would not sugar their pills unless they were bitter.
6  If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded.
7  He has to take pills to control his blood pressure.
8  Taking pills is easy; just put them in your mouth and swallow.
9  Bitter pills may have wholesome effort.
10  He tried to kill himself with sleeping pills.
11  Americans are said to spend more on pills and potions than any other nation.
12  She prescribed some pills to help me to sleep.
13  Take three pills daily after meals.
14  A decade of heavy drinking and popping pills ruined her health.
15  The doctor prescribed chocolate pills for his patient who was a hypochondriac.