Sentence examples for anaesthetise from inspiring English sources

The judge said: "Weeks of evidence, much of it scientific, should not obscure nor anaesthetise the enormity of the offences.

But airlines and airports are quite happy for powered-up customers to relax, and instead anaesthetise themselves with their electronica.

And she is as good at finding the words men use to anaesthetise themselves in the brute callousness of war as she is at navigating the tentativeness of new lovers undressing for the first time.Readers who wonder why writers as talented as Martin Amis and the 2006 Man Booker prize-winner, Kiran Desai, seem to flinch from writing about their own times should study Ms Seiffert.

The cocktail used generally contains sodium thiopental (to anaesthetise the condemned man), pancuronium bromide (to paralyse his muscles) and potassium chloride (to stop his heart).

If the hospital were going to anaesthetise her, then remove and incinerate anything that should have started with her entire rock'n'roll biker chic wardrobe.

And maybe because fashion generally does the opposite, filching from the counter-culture to sanitise, anaesthetise and sell to the masses.

But in the end the spin has an anaesthetising effect – at least on the heavyweight end of BBC correspondents and editors.

If Serena Williams can bagel a fitter, younger opponent in the third set of a semi-final at a slam while appearing to be operating on half a lung and anaesthetised legs – as she did to beat the bewildered Timea Bacsinszky on Thursday – her opponent in Saturday's final, Lucie Safarova, has no chance.

You roll the woman this way and that, attach name bands and tape up earrings, you hold her hand as she is anaesthetised and whisper that the baby will be out soon.

When Joyce considers what she might ask those responsible, she says: "I want to know what really happened, whether she woke up or if she was totally anaesthetised when she died.

But the financial markets have been anaesthetised ever since Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), promised to "do whatever it takes" to protect the euro zone from collapse.