How to Use tranquilizer in a Sentence

tranquilizer

noun

• Tests on the cheesecake showed the presence of the tranquilizer.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Each day, the children line up for a dose of tranquilizer pills.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2020
• The Israeli family takes tranquilizers to try and sleep, and to ignore the sound of the key.
  — Valeria Verbaro, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2023
• The agency said the bears had been found in a tree and were captured using a tranquilizer.
  — CBS News, 19 May 2022
• But in 2023, the tranquilizer was the culprit in seven deaths, a number not seen in six years.
  — José Luis Martínez, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2024
• The doctor nods and writes out a prescription for the mother—a tranquilizer to get her through.
  — Juliana Barbassa, Vogue, 5 May 2016
• The men capture moose in much the same way, using tranquilizer darts instead of nets.
  — Laura Ungar, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• Vets were on hand with tranquilizer guns to be used as a last resort if needed.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2021
• In the second room, Ahav’s eyes were drooping as the tranquilizer took effect.
  — Hannah Dreier, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2020
• So Coombs went back to his vehicle to get a tranquilizer gun.
  — Doug Smith Senior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2021
• The first scene in the movie shows a rhinoceros being shot with a tranquilizer gun and then having its horn sheared off.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2017
• Wang said the first leopard was caught by park employees on April 21 with a tranquilizer dart.
  — Author: Eva Dou, Lyric Li, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2021
• Little Joe was shot at least four times with tranquilizer darts before he was captured and returned to the zoo.
  — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• Wilson said because servals like Juno are very fast, the best way to catch him would be using a tranquilizer.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 1 May 2018
• The culprit is a batch of heroin cut with elephant tranquilizer.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2017
• Deer will be shot with tranquilizer darts on any property in Wards 3 and 4, private and public, when they are seen.
  — cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
• An officer takes a shot with a tranquilizer dart and the steer stumbles, then struggles to its feet in an attempt to leap over the police cars to freedom.
  — Longreads, 17 May 2018
• The tranquilizer did, however, soon take effect, and Ming was carried out of the apartment on a gurney.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 7 Oct. 2019
• Too much tranquilizer and the animal might die; not enough and the animal will only be enraged by it.
  — Chris Jones, Esquire, 6 Feb. 2012
• Levi captured the hearts of the neighbors, though, who shouted warnings every time Czech raised his tranquilizer gun.
  — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Used as a tranquilizer for livestock, xylazine is cheap and allows drug dealers to use less of the more costly fentanyl.
  — The Enquirer, 12 Apr. 2024
• Wildlife officers found the cub in a tree and immobilized her with a tranquilizer dart.
  — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 30 June 2018
• There was no working tranquilizer rifle found in the Morphew's home.
  — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2022
• A wildlife biologist shot the bear with a tranquilizer dart about three hours after it was spotted.
  — CBS News, 12 May 2017
• After a long chase, game wardens were successful in hitting the bear with a tranquilizer dart.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 1 June 2018
• As police secured a perimeter around the tree, wildlife officers shot the puma with a tranquilizer dart and carried it down from its perch on a stretcher, Paglia said.
  — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2021
• The buck was given a low dose of tranquilizer, Tarbox said, delivered from a blowpipe.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2019
• Fish and Game conservation officers subdued the bear with a tranquilizer and brought it out of the city a little over three hours later.
  — Fox News, 8 May 2018
• Prosecutors believe the cap was from a syringe used to fill a tranquilizer dart.
  — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2022
• The tranquilizers were sometimes too weak to render a calf fully unconscious.
  — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024