antidote

in a sentence

When everyone had taken a swig of antidote and the various swellings had subsided, Snape swept over to Goyle's cauldron and scooped out the twisted black remains of the firework.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

But mostly because Ali was immune to the insults of his assailants; he had found his joy, his antidote, the moment Sanaubar had given birth to Hassan.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

It's a medicine or antidote or something, already inside a medical syringe, ready to use.  (source) James Dashner, The Maze Runner, 2009

None of it was an antidote to Oryx.  (source) Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003

But antidotes don't always work.†  (source) Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, 2010

Eva would accept nothing less than excellence in school, because she saw education as the only antidote to their poverty.  (source) Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie, 1997

Demon poisonings are common, but since it was a Greater Demon, Hodge isn't sure if the antidotes he usually employs will be viable.†  (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

If he does not get the antidote before tomorrow morning, the serum will not work.†  (source) Darren Shan, A Living Nightmare, 2001

Behind a mystique of adventure, toughness, footloose vagabondage-all much needed antidotes to our culture's built-in comfort and convenience may lie a kind of adolescent refusal to take seriously aging, the frailty of others, interpersonal responsibility, weakness of all kinds, the slow and unspectacular course of life itself...[TIop climbers...can be deeply moved, in fact maudlin; but only for worthy martyred excomrades.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

Volunteers are still urgently needed for antidote testing, even as the cyborg draft continues.†  (source) Marissa Meyer, Cinder, 2012

Unlike so many of their moderate brothers and sisters, they have recognized the urgency of the moment and sensed the need for powerful "action" antidotes to combat the disease of segregation.†  (source) Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963

But Andie was no longer the antidote to my nerves.†  (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

Actually this newspaper very soon came to devote its columns to advertisements of new, 'infallible' antidotes against plague.†  (source) Albert Camus, The Plague, 1947