How to Use sedative in a Sentence

sedative

1 of 2 adjective

• Paramedics then shot him up with a sedative, a dose later found to be too much for his 143 pounds.
  — Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2020
• The muddy-brown drink is made from the crushed roots of the kava plant and produces a mild sedative effect.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 July 2018
• But the flip side of swimming’s sedative virtues is that swimming is boring.
  — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• One of the vets leaned out with a dart gun to deliver a dose of M99, a sedative thousands of times stronger than morphine.
  — Jason Florio, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
• The drink is made from a ground up root common to the South Pacific, and produces a (very) mild sedative effect.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• In these films, mood is not subservient to message: The mood is the message, working to disperse the sedative haze of the everyday.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• One deputy bore down on Mr. Juarez with a forearm against the base of his neck, and others put weight on him as he was given a dose of Versed, a sedative, by paramedics.
  — New York Times, 25 Sep. 2021
• The drug is used as a sedative and is supposed to be fast-acting with limited side affects.
  — NBC News, 2 Dec. 2021
• The brain adapted to the sedative effect of the drugs to the point where patients would pop a calming pill just to treat the symptoms of withdrawal since the previous dose.
  — Knvul Sheikh, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2020
• Thalidomide was introduced in the late 1950s and widely marketed as a safe, over-the-counter sleep sedative.
  — Brian Gordon, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2020
• Rob had refused to take Ativan, the sedative the doctor gave him in Sacramento.
  — Meg Kissinger, jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021
• He was placed in a chokehold and paramedics injected him with the powerful sedative ketamine.
  — Amy Forliti, chicagotribune.com, 15 Apr. 2022
• His blood was found to show signs of fentanyl, heroin, marijuana and the sedative Xanax, Wersal said.
  — Mike Stobbe, chicagotribune.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• Lemon balm, for example, lives up to its name because of chemicals that seem to have a sedative effect.
  — Bill Ward Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 21 Apr. 2021
• McClain had not moved or made a noise in over a minute when paramedics injected him with the powerful sedative ketamine, the report states.
  — Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021
• Is the Ativan intended not only to deliver calm, but as the kind of sedative that might hasten the mother’s death?
  — Anna Altman, The New Republic, 11 Nov. 2021
• The patient was supposed to get Versed, a sedative intended to calm her before being scanned in a large, MRI-like machine.
  — Brett Kelman, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2022
• Paramedics gave him a sedative but were then denied access to him for eight minutes, according to the coroner's report.
  — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2021
• Cabaret feels loose and unfiltered in a way reality soaps rarely do anymore, giving the show a sedative charm.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 9 July 2021
• Patients must be observed for about 2 hours until the sedative effects of the medication wears off.
  — Robert Glatter, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• Police placed him in a chokehold, and paramedics administered 500 milligrams of sedative to calm him down.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2020
• The sedative side effect can be both a blessing and a curse, as Dr. Hoffman once discovered when his own toddler slept through a flight to Hawaii only to stay awake all night.
  — Marnie Hanel, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• They were taken to a police station after officers found a sedative pill on one friend.
  — Alexander Roslyakov, The Seattle Times, 2 May 2017
• At higher doses, kratom acts as a sedative and pain reliever.
  — Mason Marks, STAT, 26 Aug. 2021
• Glover's lawyer, Scottie Celestin, said Jolly died from a dose of the sedative benzodiazepine that was given to him at a hospital, not from the stab wounds.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 Mar. 2022
• He was scheduled to die by injection of the sedative pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
  — CBS News, 17 May 2022
• Chamomile tea is a sedative and sleep aid traditionally used in different parts of Iran.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 11 Aug. 2020
• Caffeine interferes with the action of a chemical known as adenosine, which has sedative properties and builds up in the brain to signal sleep.
  — Lisa Drayer, CNN, 17 Mar. 2021
• Ketamine is often the strongest sedative in a paramedic's kit in departments that allow its use.
  — Sara Sidner and Julia Jones, CNN, 31 Aug. 2020
• Cogan said the study results do not suggest that opioids and sedative-hypnotic drugs should be avoided.
  — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2020

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sedative

2 of 2 noun

• The patient was given a powerful sedative.
• Chloral—a potent sedative that Carl gives her to help her sleep—joins the list.
  — Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
• This year, perhaps, think of the ball as a large sedative being swallowed by the body politic.
  — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• Rosing called a doctor who told her to give the patient a sedative.
  — jsonline.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• Doctors gave him twice the normal dose of Versed — a powerful sedative — to calm him.
  — Victoria Bekiempis, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2022
• First, the heavy sedative is administered, which causes the pet to fall into a deep sleep.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
• The short-acting drug is used in humans and animals and can induce a sedative state.
  — Heidi Pérez-Moreno, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• This condition wasn’t summoned just by the shoyu broth, a tawny liquid whose warmth seemed to flow through my veins like a sedative.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
• Back then, Gulpilil liked to drink beer, smoke marijuana and take kava, a plant that acts as a sedative.
  — Rod McGuirk, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2021
• Police put him in a carotid hold and paramedics injected him with ketamine, a sedative.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2020
• Himalayan cedarwood has a strong affinity for the skin and the nervous system as a sedative.
  — Tatjana Freund, harpersbazaar.com, 10 May 2023
• If the proposal is approved, staff would be able to lock young people in their units and use injectable sedatives.
  — Abigail Kramer, ProPublica, 3 Jan. 2024
• In some cases, that could mean a prescription sedative, in others that could mean CBD oil.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
• Amid the drug shortage, states turned to midazolam, a sedative that’s widely available in the U.S.
  — Lauren Gill, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2023
• Once the sedative wore off, the moose apparently had his fill of human companionship and wanted to get back to the wild.
  — Mark Thiessen, ajc, 23 Nov. 2022
• Propofol is a strong sedative that can also be used as an anaesthetic.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 May 2023
• Zyrtec and Benadryl are both effective options, though Zyrtec has less of a sedative effect.
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 7 Aug. 2023
• That state used midazolam as the sedative in a three-drug protocol.
  — Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
• After receiving the sedative, Grant began to convulse and throw up.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 28 Oct. 2021
• Users claim that, depending on the dose, kratom can boost energy, ease pain, and cause an opioid-like sedative effect.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 3 Aug. 2023
• Drug news:Animal sedative found in fentanyl powder, pills and alone.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 29 Apr. 2023
• Police detained McClain and placed him in a chokehold while medics gave him a dose of ketamine, a powerful sedative.
  — Katie Wedell, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2020
• The sedative was added to Aurora Fire Rescue protocols in 2018.
  — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• While it has been given in the past for household pets, the sedative is now typically used for larger animals like horse, sheep and elk.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2023
• Still, the woody herb has been used for centuries as a mild sedative and there have been several studies that suggest it can be used to help ease anxiety.
  — Glamour, 2 June 2022
• The sedative, which is sometimes abused as a street drug, has shown promise in treating depression and anxiety.
  — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
• There is probably also a higher risk with the use of propofol, since the sedative blocks the body’s reflexes for protecting the airway, the authors said.
  — Elaine Chen, STAT, 28 Mar. 2024
• The good news: Use of cigarettes, sedatives, and non-medical use of opioids continued on a 10-year decline among all ages.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 18 Aug. 2023
• Ketamine is used as a sedative in emergency rooms worldwide.
  — Laura Newberrystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Both cocaine and Midazolam, a sedative, were found in Bean's system.
  — Gina Barton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021

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