sedate

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I think it'll work better if we take him back to surgery and sedate him, then put in the IV.  (source) Todd Burpo, Heaven Is for Real, 2010

She's still sedated from the surgery and she's on a ventilator to help her breathe while her body heals from the trauma.  (source) Gayle Forman, If I Stay, 2009

Soon, her sedated condition transformed to harassment and self-loathing.†  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

They were to be sedate in bearing, unapproachable, regal even, but possessed of arcane and potentially lethal recipes, and capable of inspiring the most incendiary passions in men.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

It's sedated them.†  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

Nestled on a pine-covered ridge in northern Arizona, the sedating forest views give way to the breathtaking red mountains of Sedona to the west.†  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

Make sure she sedates him.†  (source) James Dashner, The Death Cure, 2011

The Russian doctors loved injecting barbiturates no matter what ailed you, and since their patients loved the needle, no one left the Russian hospital unsedated.†  (source) Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone, 2009

He felt something, but he said no. He didn't want to be oversedated.†  (source) Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King, 2112

But I'm gonna move real slow and sedate, bein' the lady that I am.†  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

The dog's given up all struggle, sedated by the smell of the shirt.†  (source) Kathryn Stockett, The Help, 2009

I hated to see him this way, I always hated it, and always resisted sedating him.†  (source) John Grogan, Marley & Me, 2005

Though the exhibition was moderately crowded, still it had the sedate, meandering feel of a backwater, a certain vacuum-sealed calm: long sighs and extravagant exhalations like a room full of students taking a test.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

As she watched, one of these detached itself into a sudden breeze and sailed sedately off, while others leaned from the pod as if to observe its departure.  (source) Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, 1975

It seemed more sedate than I remembered it, more perpendicular and strait-laced, with narrower windows and shinier woodwork, as though a coat of varnish had been put over everything for better preservation.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

Leaving their father and me to our quieter, more sedate pleasures, one of which was simple conversation.  (source) Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

(Starts up from down L., walking sedately along Main Street. As she reaches the corner, she speaks off to her R.)  (source) Thornton Wilder, Our Town, 1938

Nor did he seem much more at ease; when he spoke, his accent had none of its usual sedateness; and he repeated his inquiries as to the time of her having left Longbourn, and of her having stayed in Derbyshire, so often, and in so hurried a way, as plainly spoke the distraction of his thoughts.†  (source) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813

...it was observed that the giddiest grew pale, and the more aged and sedate passed their hands over their brows as if in confused reverie or meditation.  (source) Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death, 1850

Mennonite teenagers raced sedately in polished Model T's.†  (source) Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine, 1989

But when the second moment had passed, when she found every doubt, every solicitude removed, compared her situation with what so lately it had been,—saw him honourably released from his former engagement, saw him instantly profiting by the release, to address herself and declare an affection as tender, as constant as she had ever supposed it to be,—she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity;—and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.†  (source) Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, 1811

Their hands rest in their laps, looking as if they are folded sedately.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985

A hurriedly donned black robe billowed about him when at last he arrived, but it was with impressive sedateness and dignity that he asked, "Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached your verdicts?"†  (source) Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, 1966

Harry felt as though the panic inside him might spill over at any moment; he wanted to run, to yell for Dumbledore; Mr Weasley was bleeding as they walked along so sedately, and what if those fangs (Harry tried hard not to think 'my fangs') had been poisonous?†  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

But the farther he went and the more his attention was diverted by the ever-increasing crowds moving toward the Kremlin, the less he remembered to walk with the sedateness and deliberation of a man.†  (source) Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, 1869

Lord and Lady Tyrell moved more sedately.†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, 2000