“I knocked my knee against the chair and felt a sharp pain.”

“Billy is almost over the pain from his break-up with Monique.”

“The hurricane would inflict pain on the townsfolk as they struggled to rebuild their lives.”

“Having previously described the painfulness of chest tube removal, my colleagues and I decided to intervene.”

“Little has been reported on the painfulness of the removal of wound drains.”

“And then what justifies death is the unbearableness of the pain rather than the painfulness.”

“Falnec crumbled a tab of painkiller into his canteen and held the rim of the metal flask to the youth's lips.”

“But we have to remember that in the nineteenth century opium was a painkiller.”

“It is an active painkiller and can help those who suffer from illnesses such as muscular dystrophy.”

“Our study suggests that the painlessness of the disease may be partly due to intraneural invasion of bacilli.”

“But its reliability and painlessness are increasingly being questioned.”

“You get into a state similar to natural sleeping and we achieve painlessness in a combined way, by dosing local anaesthetic and intravenous analgesics.”

“They act as hypnotics, painkillers and muscle relaxants, and they block your memory of the surgery.”

“Antibiotics and painkillers can temporarily relieve symptoms such as swelling and pain but they are not long-term solutions.”

“He is going into rehab to try to kick his addiction to prescription painkillers.”