tranquillizing
Example Sentences
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He wondered whether lithium could have the same tranquillizing effect on his patients.
From Nature ● Aug. 25, 2019
Sheer persistence in the end proved tranquillizing, the woman ceased to toss and writhe continually, her communications became more lucid.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
She loved the retirement of a country life, and found in it, in her own language, “a wonderful effect in tranquillizing the spirit and calming every unpleasant emotion.”
From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
To Asa, that intangible yet tranquillizing support had meant what the spider meant to Bruce, and now it had been taken from him.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
The climate is of exquisite softness, beneath a sky serenely blue; every breath is a pleasure, tranquillizing to both mind and body.
From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou
