tranquillizer

Example Sentences

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Aiming a rifle-like tranquillizer gun out the window of her Toyota Landcruiser, Otto shot a dart into each rhino, generally from around 50 yards.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

“Halt,” he said, patting the tranquillizer gun at his side.

From Nature • Apr. 7, 2020

Things begin to stir as David and the other residents, armed with tranquillizer guns, are forced to go hunting.

From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016

Now, nature is intervening — and could either save the landmark project without the need for tranquillizer darts and wolf crates, or sound its death knell.

From Nature • Feb. 12, 2014

It is this persuasion, which men usually arrive at 137 only in their maturity, that operates as the most effectual tranquillizer of frivolous activities.

From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert