How to Use sedation in a Sentence

sedation

noun

• For some patients, sedation may be necessary.
• The sedation guy was busy and didn't laugh but the nurse did.
  — Author: Garrison Keillor, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 July 2017
• Lacy was able to stand once the mild sedation wore off.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 8 July 2024
• Once the stronger sedation hit, the surgeons took him to CT scan.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
• Patients also will not need sedation or need to miss a day of work to do the stool test.
  — Dr. Kimberly Loo, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2023
• Both types of drugs can cause sedation and slowed breathing.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 25 Sep. 2020
• Chucky, likely groggy from sedation, was put into a trash can in the back of a truck.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 3 July 2018
• Lacy was able to stand and eagerly tear into a bag of hay when the sedation wore off, video shows.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 8 July 2024
• Hamlin, 25, woke up from sedation days after the incident and asked if the Bills had won the prime time matchup.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
• To treat that pain, doctors prescribe a wide range of drugs that can cause sedation and dizziness.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• That accounted for 31% of the state’s payments for IV sedation that year, charges said.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2019
• Neither requires deep sedation or a tube down the throat.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• After a while, some patients will be awake with no sedation and breathing with that when they get used to it.
  — al, 4 Jan. 2021
• Dafna faints and is put under sedation, while Michael is in shock.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2017
• And after a few hours of complete sedation, the mice seemed to recover.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022
• With Kari weaned off sedation, the transplant process moved forward.
  — Adam Geller, chicagotribune.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• The resilient pup was put under sedation and had his wounds flushed and cleaned out, stitched up and was put on antibiotics right away.
  — Arizona Republic, azcentral, 22 Nov. 2019
• To calm down the hawk and keep its heart rate under control, staff had to place a hood over its face and give it sedation through the nose, according to the center.
  — Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
• The episode also hinted that Meredith’s time on the beach–and under sedation–might be coming to an end soon.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 Mar. 2021
• The procedure requires mild sedation, and patients are not allowed to walk out on their own, even just to get in a taxi.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2018
• In October, doctors tried to wake him up from the four or five sedation drugs he was given.
  — Arkansas Online, 15 May 2022
• The doctors tried repeatedly to bring him out of the sedation, but his body went rigid every time.
  — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2019
• Heavy sedation kept Carter's physical pain at bay for a while.
  — Madeleine Stix, CNN, 12 June 2019
• Over time, the sedation was decreased, and respiratory tubes were switched from the mouth to the trachea.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 29 May 2018
• You’ll be asked to wear a hospital gown, and you’ll get prepped with an IV port for moderate or deep sedation.
  — Kathryn Watson, SELF, 1 Apr. 2022
• And as doctors began the slow work of grafting healthy skin onto her wounds, she was placed under round-the-clock sedation.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• At the time of the post's writing, Myah was in the hospital’s children’s ward with oxygen and feeding tubes, and was under sedation to help her rest.
  — Jackie Frere, Redbook, 13 Dec. 2017
• To be considered for a transplant, Allard needed to come off sedation and be able to walk.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 23 Jan. 2024
• All too often, pets whose families leave spend the process fighting the sedation and searching for them.
  — Ace Ratcliff, SELF, 25 Oct. 2018
• Some departments such as Minneapolis have barred officers from requesting sedation, as does a state law in Colorado.
  — John Seewer and Reese Dunklin, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024