The phrase "administer a dose" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical or pharmaceutical contexts when referring to giving a specific amount of medication to a patient.
Example: "The nurse will administer a dose of the vaccine to each patient in the clinic today."
Alternatives: "give a dose" or "deliver a dose".
Or as Sandra Pianalto, president of the Cleveland Fed, put it: "History has an ability to administer a dose of humility".
I guess he was hoping we wouldn't notice his singing.' Nunn is hoping to administer a dose of authenticity to a show that has become too balmily, tropically mellow.
Bluebaby: - "Can I just say that if anyone near me starts playing a vuevuezela at Stamford Bridge next season, I shall take it off them, upend it to use as a an enema funnel and administer a dose of hot Bovril to the miscreant".
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Let me first administer a dose of strong medicine to those of you who are in a parenting relationship with your children's father.
One could administer a dose every hour or even every 10 minutes during the first hour depending upon the severity of the condition.
They are pursuing a homicide case against his personal physician, who reportedly administered a dose of a powerful anesthetic, propofol, before he died.
And a conscience isn't much good if all it does is make you sputter for a few moments on your way to administering a dose of poison.
Fuentes administered a dose of medicine and later advised the parents to take the child to another hospital.
In 1885, the French biologist Louis Pasteur administered a dose of an experimental vaccine to a 9-year old boy who'd been mauled by a rabid dog.
The physician administered a dose of intravenous morphine, and as the drug took effect, the woman's body eased and she began to weep.
