How to Use sedated in a Sentence

sedated

adjective
  • With a clean swoop, Miller had the animal subdued and sedated.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2026
  • By then Rachel was heavily sedated.
    — Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The mismatched band of captors can’t agree on anything, and thus cannot act; their captive, bound and sedated and locked in a crate, is a nonentity for much of the movie.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2026
  • As of Wednesday morning, Yonah said she was sedated and medical staff were going to try to wake her up soon.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Right now, Frazier is heavily sedated.
    — Daniel Wilkerson, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • There’s no need for a friend of a dental hygienist to stay in the room with a sedated underage female patient in a world that has total respect for women.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The animal was later sedated and safely returned to her habitat, with no injuries reported.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 17 Nov. 2025
  • According to McGhee, his brother was heavily sedated, still in need of a breathing tube and had not yet spoken a week after the crash.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Daejeon officials released video showing rescuers retrieving the sedated wolf from a ditch and carefully placing him in a carrier — a moment of relief for the many people who had followed his story.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Earlier this year, a 45-year-old Brazilian social-media star named Ricardo Godoi went into a private hospital for a full-back tattoo while sedated and intubated.
    — John Semley, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025

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