tranquilizer
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
The young intern who shot us with a tranquilizer dart and then inserted that inexact analysis apologizes.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2026
You’d have needed a tranquilizer gun to keep him from chasing after the next story, and the next, and he was still telling stories until his death in 2015.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2025
Veterinarians and rangers held the rhino’s head above water with a rope to stop it from drowning while a tranquilizer reversal drug took effect, and the rhino was released.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
So it hired a veterinarian who now goes out on the course, sneaking around and stalking kangaroos with a tranquilizer dart-gun.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2023
One of the beams settled on the doorway behind the fallen men, where Milligan now stood holding a tranquilizer gun.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Over the course of two years, they were shot with tranquilizers, blindfolded, antlers wrapped, and flown to staging areas where they were trucked to the North Cascades.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
The bears ultimately returned to her home before tranquilizers were used.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 27, 2023
"You should not swallow informational tranquilizers," Mikhail Khodaryonok, a retired colonel, told the "60 Minutes" talk show on Rossiya-1 hosted by Olga Skabeyeva, one of the most pro-Kremlin journalists on television.
From Reuters ● May 17, 2022
Fish and Wildlife officers responded as well, armed with tranquilizers, and successfully subdued the animal, which passed out with its head in the sink and a broken screen on the floor below.
From Fox News ● May 26, 2021
Can’t we get him some tranquilizers or something?
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
