How to Use antidote in a Sentence

antidote

noun
  • There is no antidote to this poison.
  • For him, racing motorcycles is a great antidote to boredom.
  • So the antidote to despair is to forge deeper connections.
    Simran Sethi, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Movement is an antidote for me, so getting outside to be by myself on a run or walk can be enough to recharge me and really change my whole vibe.
    Shauna Harrison, SELF, 21 Dec. 2021
  • There is an obvious antidote to this condition, one that perhaps has already occurred to you: the vinyl record.
    Gilad Edelman, Wired, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Some experts say the antidote is free and accessible to anyone willing to try it: setting aside some time to let your mind wander.
    Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
  • And not only had Eleanor been turned into a vampire, the potential antidote was the blood of Kate’s best friend.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • There are antidotes that aim to tackle this, with a rise in shows where two hosts from either side of the political aisle come together to discuss both sides of an issue.
    Oskar Serrander, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The drug’s nearly two-year journey from a university lab is the latest rapid, surprise pandemic antidote.
    Betsy McKay, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The paramedic administered Narcan, a heroin-overdose antidote, and the man awoke.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Reading took on a new urgency as an antidote to convention, the obvious and the routine, especially in the use of language.
    Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Clutter offers an antidote to the stupefying standardisation of so much of modern life.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2024
  • And wild food is the antidote: a wake-up call for the senses.
    Gabriel Popkin, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • As rates rise, the antidote to volatile stocks could now be bonds.
    USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The Hamptons, for them, is the antidote to a city that never sleeps.
    Beth Landman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2024
  • It’s the antidote, the balm, to the daily grind to be seen, heard, and respected.
    Rita Omokha, Glamour, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The mitzvot — the active pursuit of the good and the holy — creates the antidote to that dark piece within us.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Dosirak is a table for one, the antidote to a world full of shared plates.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
  • That is the antidote, which works for children or pets.
    Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2024
  • For Haynes, the act of painting the nude is, more than anything else, an antidote to shame.
    Julia Halperin, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • In this episode, the survivors must figure out the antidote or Travis will die, too.
    Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Aug. 2023
  • These appliances are the antidote to out of sight, out of mind.
    Deanne Revel, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023
  • But the state does have a program to mail the antidote to anyone who requests it.
    Geoff Mulvihill and Sharon Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Spring produce skews light and delicate and green, a real antidote to the gray days of the first few months of the year.
    Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022
  • He’s given us one hell of an antidote, that’s for sure.
    Vulture, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Did the isolation of the past two years inspire you to want to make music that was an antidote to that?
    New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • In an era where the U.S. is deeply fractured and many worry about the future, a world fair could be an antidote.
    Ruth D. Nelson / Made By History, TIME, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Make sense of the world New from The Week, get the antidote to news overload – a snapshot of what’s happening today and why.
    theweek, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Tulsa proved to be a favorable matchup for SMU and an antidote when the team needed a win.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • One of the most fun home decor styles this year is the kitschy kitchens trend, aka the antidote to all-neutral-everything fatigue.
    Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2024

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