How to Use tranquilizer in a Sentence

tranquilizer

noun
  • Tests on the cheesecake showed the presence of the tranquilizer.
    Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Each day, the children line up for a dose of tranquilizer pills.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The Israeli family takes tranquilizers to try and sleep, and to ignore the sound of the key.
    Valeria Verbaro, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The agency said the bears had been found in a tree and were captured using a tranquilizer.
    CBS News, 19 May 2022
  • The men capture moose in much the same way, using tranquilizer darts instead of nets.
    Laura Ungar, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Vets were on hand with tranquilizer guns to be used as a last resort if needed.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2021
  • In the second room, Ahav’s eyes were drooping as the tranquilizer took effect.
    Hannah Dreier, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2020
  • So Coombs went back to his vehicle to get a tranquilizer gun.
    Doug Smith Senior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Wang said the first leopard was caught by park employees on April 21 with a tranquilizer dart.
    Author: Eva Dou, Lyric Li, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2021
  • Little Joe was shot at least four times with tranquilizer darts before he was captured and returned to the zoo.
    Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Wilson said because servals like Juno are very fast, the best way to catch him would be using a tranquilizer.
    Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 1 May 2018
  • Deer will be shot with tranquilizer darts on any property in Wards 3 and 4, private and public, when they are seen.
    cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
  • An officer takes a shot with a tranquilizer dart and the steer stumbles, then struggles to its feet in an attempt to leap over the police cars to freedom.
    Longreads, 17 May 2018
  • The tranquilizer did, however, soon take effect, and Ming was carried out of the apartment on a gurney.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Levi captured the hearts of the neighbors, though, who shouted warnings every time Czech raised his tranquilizer gun.
    Mike Newall, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Wildlife officers found the cub in a tree and immobilized her with a tranquilizer dart.
    Madeline Farber, Fox News, 30 June 2018
  • There was no working tranquilizer rifle found in the Morphew's home.
    CBS News, 22 Jan. 2022
  • After a long chase, game wardens were successful in hitting the bear with a tranquilizer dart.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 1 June 2018
  • As police secured a perimeter around the tree, wildlife officers shot the puma with a tranquilizer dart and carried it down from its perch on a stretcher, Paglia said.
    Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2021
  • The buck was given a low dose of tranquilizer, Tarbox said, delivered from a blowpipe.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Fish and Game conservation officers subdued the bear with a tranquilizer and brought it out of the city a little over three hours later.
    Fox News, 8 May 2018
  • Prosecutors believe the cap was from a syringe used to fill a tranquilizer dart.
    CBS News, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Wildlife officers found the cub in a tree and immobilized her with a tranquilizer dart and took her to a state facility.
    CBS News, 29 June 2018
  • Xylazine is legal as a horse tranquilizer, but it’s not approved for human use.
    Joseph Wilkinson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The killing involved restraining the journalist and injecting him with a tranquilizer that led to his death by overdose, the office said.
    Ian Talley, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • Instead she was drugged with the tranquilizer ketamine, handcuffed and zipped into a bag before being driven in the trunk of a car to a farmhouse outside Turin, more than 100 miles away.
    Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 12 June 2018
  • The powerful tranquilizer was approved by the FDA for veterinary use in 1972.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The bans, long overdue, had the effect of a tranquilizer; suddenly, timelines felt a little less deranged.
    Jason Parham, Wired, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Already Rath takes a morphine and tranquilizer mix to treat a war injury, which becomes part of a larger storyline.
    Ariston Anderson, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Carfentanyl is an elephant tranquilizer, and just a few grains can kill humans.
    Jerry Mitchell and Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 28 Jan. 2018

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