tranquillize in a sentence
Examples
- The New Jersey tigers were in the care of a woman who had a permit to house them on an 11-acre site, but trouble erupted in 1999 when one of the tigers escaped and was killed after tranquillizing efforts failed.
- Every now and then, Delbanco notices, something unusual occurs, a hissing whisper or a silent hand signal, that " might cut through Delano's haze and awaken him to the true situation, but he always reverts to'tranquillizing'thoughts " about the white man's power and the black man's " natural servility ".
- His application to study gradually tranquillized his temper and softened his manners, leaving him at the same time in perfect possession of those good qualities he inherited from nature : a warm and disinterested attachment to his family and friends, united to a generosity, vigour and elevation of character, which rendered him not unworthy to embody in his dramas the actions and sentiments of Grecian heroes.