How to Use medicate in a Sentence

medicate

verb

• The patient had been heavily medicated.
• Rather than medicate her and tell her to calm down, the doctor put on some music and watched as the girl began to dance.
  — Teresa M. Pelham, courant.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Even with a house call, your dog may still need to be medicated to reduce her stress.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Jack once again tries to reason with Nicky, who’s been self-medicating to make it through the days in Vietnam.
  — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Nov. 2018
• Dew points are still quite dry (into the 20s), so pollen sufferers may still need to medicate, though the very light winds should help.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• Some were too stunned or medicated to move; others lashed out in fear and stress at handlers.
  — Jamie Tarabay, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
• It was stocked with tubes of Vagisil, medicated vaginal wipes, pads.
  — Sarah Chaves, Glamour, 11 Apr. 2019
• But Thompson says in the lawsuit that the baby was put there in the middle of the night, while she was heavily medicated.
  — Abigail Abrams, Time, 10 Aug. 2017
• Kittens and cats that need to be medicated, spayed and neutered, that need to find homes for fostering and adoption.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• The flies are far from the only animals to medicate themselves.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2012
• In 2015, the CDC said, enough opioids were prescribed to medicate every American around the clock for three weeks.
  — Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Some people medicate their way around their grief with alcohol, drugs, and one-night stands.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 27 Sep. 2017
• They may be medicated or treated in ways that are not helpful.
  — John Elder Robison, STAT, 23 Mar. 2023
• Some people may also self-medicate their low mood by drinking, which makes the problem worse.
  — Ashley Abramson, Health, 23 Jan. 2023
• There were conflicting reports in the hours after the rescue about the extent to which the boys had been medicated before they were brought out...
  — Radhika Viswanathan, Vox, 11 July 2018
• In Uganda the health ministry was compelled to issue a public statement warning the public against using the plant to medicate the effects of the virus.
  — Stephen Kafeero, Quartz, 2 July 2021
• The art and skill of focusing can be taught and may just help some children avoid being wrongly medicated.
  — Leslie Anne Tarabella, AL.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• But if that horse is medicated, the vet might not detect an issue that could later prove fatal.
  — Nick Watt, CNN, 21 June 2019
• What's more, folks wondered how Ed, weak with cancer and heavily medicated, even managed to get all the way from his house to the cattle.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 14 July 2018
• Coconut oil is safe for a dog’s nose, but don’t use baby oil or medicated ointments.
  — Heloise, Washington Post, 20 July 2019
• Many of them don’t like the side effects of drugs; some prefer being manic to being medicated.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2023
• Struggling with the loss of both the grandmother and aunt who raised her, Johnson started medicating the sinking feeling of grief with drugs.
  — al.com, 28 June 2019
• And so the way a lot of people medicate loud anxiety is by doing something even louder.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 2 June 2023
• They are guarded, medicated and fed by the same prison employees.
  — Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023
• His caregiver noticed an abscess on his leg Friday and took him to the vet, who medicated him.
  — Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 2 Mar. 2018
• Heart monitors attached to dogs and cats beeped incessantly in the cramped space as three people worked to prep, medicate and alter the pets.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2023
• Psychiatrists and psychologists talk to us, shock us and above all, medicate us to lift us from our funks.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2021
• The judge said Burke was self-medicating for depression and talked online of suicide and wanting to kill his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend.
  — City News Service, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018
• Most of her life, Stansberry, 30, used drugs to self-medicate her mental distress.
  — Fox News, 24 June 2021
• What if fibromyalgia came down to a problem with the brain’s ability to medicate itself?
  — Erik Vance, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2014

Last Updated: 28 May 2024