Example sentences for: panacea

How can you use “panacea” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It had a touch of skepticism regarding the subject (after all, this was The New Yorker ), but took Disney's town-building attempt seriously--except for the preposterous name, of course, although preposterous town names are hardly unknown in U.S. history--New Hope, for example, or New Harmony, which Andersen mentions, or my favorite, also in Florida, Panacea.

  • Native Americans chewed tobacco to treat intestinal symptoms, and in 1560, Jean Nicot de Villemain sent tobacco seeds to the French court, claiming tobacco had medicinal properties and describing it as a panacea for many ailments.

  • Norplant is no panacea for poverty; nothing is.

  • King's real heirs are those who, like him, see affirmative action not as a panacea or an end in itself, but as one of many ways to reduce the gap between blacks and the rest of American society bequeathed to us by history.

  • But as successful as the system-software strategy has been for Microsoft, it isn't a panacea; see IBM's experience with OS/2 and Jobs' own experience with NeXTStep for counterexamples.


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