medicine chest
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"The No. 1 rule at the Poison Center is that if it's available, people will take it, and a lot of people have Tylenol in their medicine chest."
From Science Daily
These early medicine chests — they talk to Donald Judd, they speak to life, they speak to death, they speak to poetry.
From New York Times
Half an hour after, Jo went to ‘Mother’s closet’ for something, and there found little Beth sitting on the medicine chest, looking very grave, with red eyes and a camphor bottle in her hand.
From Literature
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The world’s medicine chest is on fire, and we don’t even know what’s inside it yet.
From New York Times
“Hold on, let me go to my medicine chest,” she replied.
From Los Angeles Times
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