Sentence examples for as a tranquilliser from inspiring English sources

Rohypnol can act as a tranquilliser which induces muscle relaxation and amnesia.

One of the licensees was the British whisky company, Distillers, which put "Distaval" on the market as a tranquilliser in April 1958 and marketed it until 1962.

Also known as Special K, Vitamin K, Super K and just K, ketamine is actually a powerful dissociative general anaesthetic originally used as a tranquilliser for horses and other large animals, which depresses the nervous system and causes a temporary loss of body sensation.

Thorazine (an antipsychotic, which used to be classified as a major tranquilliser) and imipramine (a tricyclic antidepressant) combined to help keep me out of the psychiatric hospital in the early 1980s, when I was in middle school and ravaged by anxiety.

He wrote: "It was as if a party adviser had shot a tranquilliser dart into King Kong's rump, then squeezed him into a suit and tie.

Many a tranquilliser must have been swallowed in the following days, as Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, hesitated between a peaceful resolution and the obliteration of the planet.

Instead, they gave her a tranquilliser, Valium, via a suppository.

He has darted gorillas with a tranquilliser gun.

"A tranquilliser made for horses might induce a state of excitement in a dog.

His mother said a local UDA boss had sold the boy ketamine, a tranquilliser used to sedate horses.

"The vet gives us a tranquilliser which just takes the edge off his excitement.