tranquillizer

Example Sentences

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He killed the time reading Will James and the poems his grandmother had clipped from the livestock papers and collected in a shoebox, tranquillized by a stiff cocktail of existential despair.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2019

A decade later: “These are the tranquillized Fifties, / and I am forty.”

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2017

But members regularly serve as extra protection when a “code red” animal - the most dangerous species, such as big cats - is going to the veterinarian after being tranquillized.

From Washington Times • Jun. 3, 2016

Both couples held hands and appeared to be significantly tranquillized.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2010

His tranquillity tranquillized Shirley; his confidence reassured her.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte