How to Use morphine in a Sentence

morphine

noun
Definition of morphinenext
Synonyms for morphinenext
  • The next day he is put on morphine and is more-or-less unconscious for most of the time.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The drug is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine, and just a small dose can be deadly.
    — John Miller, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Ankhal kept begging to see his family and was put on morphine to ease the pain of his injuries.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2022
  • My brother the doctor gives Má morphine while my sister-in-law the doctor watches.
    — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Opioid painkillers include pills such as oxycodone as well as morphine or codeine, but not methadone.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The synthetic opioid is up to 100 times more potent than morphine.
    — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Fentanyl — the synthetic opioid that can be 100 times stronger than morphine —has been shaking the country and the state with overdose deaths.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2022
  • In May of 2020, a friend found O'Neal, who had overdosed on a mix of morphine, opiates and pain medication, in her apartment.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
  • Though Cieski had been prescribed morphine to ease his pain, the facility had failed to note it on his chart and didn’t have any of the drug available for him.
    — Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2022
  • That surge was due in part to an influx of fentanyl, the opium derivative as much as 100 times stronger than morphine.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Fentanyl is a deadly opioid that is about 50 times more potent than morphine.
    — Fox News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The day after the visit, Panter said Hall was placed on morphine and was essentially unconscious most of the time.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Fentanyl use has surged in California in recent years, and the death toll from the drug — which is 100 times more powerful than morphine — has risen as well.
    — Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The morphine, the tests, holding her mother’s hand every day until, suddenly, she was gone.
    — Vulture, 6 June 2023
  • Be aware that fentanyl—a synthetic opioid up to 100 times more potent than morphine—may be hiding in plain sight.
    — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Farley died of a cocaine and morphine overdose seven weeks later, on Dec. 18.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Teens share wine and other drinks together and frankly discuss taking morphine for pain.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The patient died from a morphine overdose, allegedly from one of the prescriptions the dentist issued during those five days.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 4 May 2022
  • Medical staff would ease their withdrawal often with doses of morphine tapered over the course of a couple of weeks.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The drug, about 100 times more potent than morphine, is also often used in end-of-life care to reduce discomfort in dying patients.
    — Eric Levenson, Jean Casarez and Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid, akin to morphine but more potent, which is sometimes abused on its own or found laced in other drugs.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 6 July 2023
  • Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid up to 100 times more potent than morphine.
    — Victor Ordonez, ABC News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The sheriff’s office described fentanyl as a synthetic opioid that is as many as 100 times stronger than morphine.
    — Brianna Kwasnik, Arkansas Online, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The seeds can become contaminated during the harvest with morphine and codeine, according to the memo.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The list includes products that contain lidocaine and morphine but not the coronavirus vaccine, which isn’t produced in Rocky Mount.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
  • Finally, the company succeeded in hauling Jünger to a field hospital, where he was given a glass of lemonade and a dose of morphine.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Ruslan — who gave only his first name to reduce risk to his brother, a soldier fighting the Russians in the east — was rushed to the field hospital in the bunker, where doctors performed a quick surgery and pumped him full of morphine.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers.
    — Grant Peck, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Fentanyl, a dangerous drug up to 100 times stronger than morphine, is driving the latest phase of America's opioid crisis.
    — Paul Best, Fox News, 15 June 2022
  • An autopsy of Franco's body found samples of succinylcholine and morphine, which were not prescribed or ordered for her by her doctors.
    — Fox News, 11 May 2022

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