Sentence examples for as a tranquilizer from inspiring English sources

Ann Treneman, who covers Parliament for The Times of London, wrote that the air was so heavy with torpor that it could have been packaged as a tranquilizer.

The roots of many species contain an alkaloid called reserpine, first found in the Indian species R. serpentina and used in the treatment of high blood pressure and as a tranquilizer.

Subsequent pharmacological research determined that the plant was the source of a bioactive substance known as reserpine, which found use in Western medicine as a tranquilizer and as an antihypertensive agent (lowering abnormally high blood pressure).

It acts as a tranquilizer on those who believe in it.' This statement was made in 1959, well before genetic studies in cancer and claimed 'targeted' therapies were put on steroids!

Orange essential oil is another potent anxiety reliever aromatherapists frequently recommend as a tranquilizer.

Ketamine is an anesthetic drug mainly used on horses as a tranquilizer.

The drugs included anabolic steroids, Valium, Viagra, fen-phen and Tylenol with codeine, as well as Xanax, a tranquilizer, and Rohypnol, a powerful sedative sometimes described as a "date rape" drug.

He stuns animals such as hyenas with a tranquilizer gun and then slices open their skin with a sharp knife to implant a GPS transmitter, thus leaving the animals injured but easily trackable.

Darting Harambe with a tranquilizer gun was judged too risky as the drugs don't take immediate effect; the act might have enraged the gorilla before sedating him.

It makes me calm; the same feeling as taking diazepam, a tranquilizer.

The copy made it sound as though every step in this "whole new world" called out for a tranquilizer.