Seconal

[sek-uh-nawl, -nal, -nl]

Pharmacology, Trademark.

1. a brand of secobarbital.

Example Sentences

Like the Woodward patriarch, Joe and Nina enjoyed going to the races — and she too died by Seconal.

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The novel opens with the narrator gazing upon Vladimir’s golden, shackled body, so it’s not exactly surprising when she pilfers a few Seconals from her daughter’s girlfriend’s toiletry bag.

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A dose of Seconal, which is commonly prescribed, can be more than $3,000.

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When he searched for medication within their home, he’d find pills hidden in cigarette cartons and Seconals in her bath powder.

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The New York Times called it “an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and ‘Peyton Place’ adumbrations in which five women are involved with their assorted egotistical aspirations, love affairs and Seconal pills.”

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