tranquilizing

Example Sentences

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And though she herself seems so controlled, in private Kate has acquired a compulsive shopping channel habit, as a means of tranquilising the grief over her dead son.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2020

Hume harvests the horns by tranquilising the animals and cutting them off – a technique he says is humane and wards off poachers.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2017

Here in Gilbert and Sullivan at all events we have common sense—for there can be common sense even in the ridiculous—and a tranquilising atmosphere.

From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.

But what she did had a tranquilising effect; she seemed to enable life to win the victory over the insidious pranks of apparitions.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson

I found it tranquilising to have a witness of my internal struggle.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von