Example Sentences

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Another sweep with a different, more specialized type of radiation detector revealed that they were looking at the same type of material the Mayo Clinic team had dosed the patient with: lutetium 177.

From The Verge • Feb. 26, 2019

My stomach hurt as if my mother had dosed me with castor oil.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine

Nora had dosed the door behind her to shut in the voices.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Miss Daisy Peters, who had dosed her dog that he might profit?

From The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life by Bangs, John Kendrick

But after the door had dosed behind Herries, she remained standing, a step higher than Maurice, tipping her face with her handkerchief.

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel