Example Sentences

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Policymakers should try to avoid overmedicating or sedating economic expansions.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

On Friday authorities began sedating them to carry out health checks before cleaning and sterilizing them and inking them with tattoos so they can be identified to keep accurate records.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2024

In the operating room, before they began sedating me, I heard the surgeon enter the room, take a look at the pacemaker, and pronounce that it was the wrong model.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2024

"We know that nursing homes with lower staffing levels use more antipsychotics. These medications may be compensating for understaffing by sedating residents instead of having adequate staff to support their needs," said Travers.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

What is then given should have the power of sedating the nervous fluids, while it disseminates through the viscera the elements of nutrition.

From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Smith, Hugh