Sample Sentences for
sedative
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    The smoke, she said, worked better than a sedative.  (source)
    sedative = a drug that calms or puts to sleep
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    Dr. Reynolds gave him a heavy sedative.  (source)
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    You smoke a little more every morning and drink a little more every afternoon and need a little more sedative every night.  (source)
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    The sedative that the doctor has given her begins to take effect.  (source)
    sedative = drug that puts to sleep
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    Maybe you can just finish this conversation with yourself and we'll come back later, with, urn, some bigger weapons, and possibly some sedatives.†  (source)
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    I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl.  (source)
    sedative = calming
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    The only explanation was that the administration put sedatives in the chocolate chip cookies.†  (source)
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    Had the shock of the shipwreck—the noises, the falling into the sea, the terrible struggle to swim to the lifeboat—increased the effect of the sedative?  (source)
    sedative = a drug that calms or puts to sleep
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    "The subject equates biology labs with overdosing on prescriptionstrength sedatives,"Vee said.†  (source)
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    I would like a sedative prescribed to help me deal with anxiety.†  (source)
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    Sedatives.†  (source)
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    She was speaking Hebrew, and her voice was heavy with sedative.†  (source)
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    Ben Hodge's mind was full of memories and pain, not separate instants and not a flow of time either, but all his life without walls or progression, like a small idea of eternity, or like the state sometimes induced in very sick people by powerful sedatives.†  (source)
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