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

Nightfall, which in the frost of winter comes as a fiend and in the warmth of summer as a lover, came as a tranquillizer on this March day.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas