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Sedative in sentence

15 examples of Sedative in a sentence

Two hours of chemistry class in a language that you don't yet fully understand can be a pretty good sedative.
Great sedative if you can't sleep.
The Mexicans rough it up with Brujo and try to take his "weed" which apparently is a sedative for Alma's snakes slithering inside her.
I highly urge anyone with a sleeping disorder to use this film as a sedative; it works better than an overdose of demarol.
However, it does function as a great sedative.
Please, please mister Jobson what ever you've been doing prior to directing this sedative of a film, go back to it!
After Riccio gave him a sedative and switched off the respirator, Welby said “thank you” three times to his wife, his friends, and his doctor.
Kate, who had watched so long by bedsides of pain, was calm and strong; she soothed the child, speaking to him in a low, quieting voice, administering a sedative draught, doing the right thing, as Tarvin saw, surely and steadily, undisturbed.
They had cold water, that is to say, the most powerful sedative that can be employed against inflammation of wounds, the most efficacious therapeutic agent in grave cases, and the one which is now adopted by all physicians.
I am a little nervous, and I find my hookah an invaluable sedative."
Holmes declares that he overheard me caution him against the great danger of taking more than two drops of castor oil, while I recommended strychnine in large doses as a sedative.
His displeasure was expressed in broken sentences, partly muttered to himself, partly addressed to the domestics who stood around; and particularly to his cupbearer, who offered him from time to time, as a sedative, a silver goblet filled with wine--"Why tarries the Lady Rowena?""She is but changing her head-gear," replied a female attendant, with as much confidence as the favourite lady's-maid usually answers the master of a modern family; "you would not wish her to sit down to the banquet in her hood and kirtle?
The drought which Reuben administered was of a sedative and narcotic quality, and secured the patient sound and undisturbed slumbers.
Having indulged a while in this sedative, she raised her bent body, took the pipe from her lips, and while gazing steadily at the fire, said very deliberately--"You are cold; you are sick; and you are silly."
Bessie now endeavoured to persuade her to take a sedative draught: she succeeded with difficulty.