sedate

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• Baluška and his colleagues sedated plants that feature moving parts, such as Venus flytraps.

• He was put on a ventilator and spent several weeks heavily sedated.

• She was sedated against her will during childbirth and not allowed to hold her baby after he was born.

• You have kept the same sedate occupation for two decades, parceling out the wealth of the dead amongst the living.

• It is unclear how Trierweiler came to the conclusion that the Élysée had allegedly been ordering the doctors to sedate her.

• They are introduced; they call each other “Mr.” and “Miss”; they dance a sedate foxtrot.

• The Twomblys, which might appear settled in more sedate company, here writhe and twitch.

• He boasted of doing so much drugs that he had enough “running through my circulatory system to sedate Guatemala.”

• I don't quite understand how a city can be so sedate and frenetic at the same time, but somehow Los Angeles manages it.

• Mrs Black was a woman of sedate character and considerable knowledge for her station in life—especially in regard to Scripture.

• "That was because Mr. Burlingame was not kind or good to other people," was Kitty's sedate response.

• Sheppy was coming around the corner of the granary in his most sedate manner, when the pop-eyed avalanche almost stepped on him.