86 examples of sedative in sentences

It is a pleasant sedative.

These two prescriptions, one, another ineffectual sedative, so great was the man's suffering, and the other but a segment of the medical program looking toward a cure, may be dropped into the matter casually.

The water has emollient and sedative properties, slightly diuretic, and is especially useful in diseases of the skin and nerves.

They have a purgative and sedative action.

Its sedative properties are beneficial to the nervous system generally, and it proves useful in removing the after-effects of long illnesses, hæmorrhages, &c., besides being pleasant to the skin.

51. 'Johnson,' says Boswell (ante, i. 317), 'had a high opinion of the sedative influence of smoking.'

Hot baths, besides their use for the purposes of cleanliness, have a sedative influence upon the nervous system, tending to allay restlessness and weariness.

The fear of seven years' penal servitude will act as a wonderful sedative upon theerPrince's joyful mood.

Its effect, when habitually used, is slightly narcotic and sedative, not stimulatingor if so, at times, it stimulates only the imagination and the social faculties.

But he was amazed that the barbarians had discovered in tobacco a sedative to promote their reveries and compose them to sleep, of which the hidalgos were as yet ignorant, but which they were soon to appropriate with avidity, and to use with equal zest.

Tobacco may more properly be called a sedative than a narcotic.

Tobacco, on the other hand, is primarily sedative and relaxing.

"Let me give you a sedative," added Young.

Knitting was no more of a sedative, though for many years it had stilled Aunt Martha's nerves.

Within it, among other things, was my sedative.

For five years a bad sleeper, I had latterly developed into a very bad sleeper, and my sedative was accordingly strong.

'You took a great deal too much of my sedative,' I answered.

'I feel quite well,' he said; 'but I didn't know I had taken any sedative at all.

Random reflections, funebrial, theatrical, monstrous, helpful, veracious, legal, sedative.

He no longer opened the pages of this holy man's works, although he had sung his disgust of the earth in the Confessions, and although his lamenting piety had essayed, in the City of God, to mitigate the frightful distress of the times by sedative promises of a rosier future.

We rode several miles in a state of unadjustment, and then yielded to the sedative qualities of a stagecoach.

In this same condition, the festive scene of wine and music continued for three days and nights; on the fourth night, intoxication and sleep gained the victory; I, in the sleep of forgetfulness, involuntarily slumbered; next morning the young merchant wakened me, and made me drink some cups of a cooling and sedative nature.

The heated balsamic air began to affect him like a powerful sedative; his hunger was forgotten in the languor of fatigue: he slumbered.

The cruel potion had possession of me, and entered into every fibre of my brain through the avenues prepared for it by the treacherous anodyne; so that, enervated and intoxicated, I yielded passively, after a brief struggle, to the power of the then newly-invented sedative, called chloroform.

The necromancer artfully pretended great anxiety to serve his new master, but having discovered just where Bayard was to be found, he made use of a sedative powder to lull Satan to sleep.

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