MEDICINE in a Sentence

Learn MEDICINE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
134 example sentences for MEDICINE, such as:
1. He pursued a career in medicine.
2. Apply some medicine to his wound.
3. This medicine acts upon the heart.
4. There is no medicine against death.
5. The medicine dilated the blood vessels.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of MEDICINE
medicine
 v.  treat medicinally, treat with medicine
 n.  the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
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 Fyodor 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)
1  Doctors these days tend to be more open-minded about alternative medicine.
2  The medicine did not achieve the desired effect.
3  I felt fairly easy after taking the medicine.
4  There is no medicine against death.
5  Astrology and alternative medicine are part of the New Age movement.
6  Apply some medicine to his wound.
7  Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
8  It is an iniquitous system that allows a person to die because they have no money to pay for medicine.
9  Prevention also plays a central role in traditional medicine.
10  This medicine acts upon the heart.
11  He has won wide recognition in the field of tropical medicine.
12  The medicine dilated the blood vessels.
13  She is a cancer sufferer who has rejected orthodox medicine and turned instead to acupuncture, aromatherapy and other forms of alternative medicine.
14  He pursued a career in medicine.
15  The discussion focused on topical issues in medicine.