OPIATE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for OPIATE, such as:
1. There were opiates for remorse, drugs that could lull the moral sense to sleep.
2. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and elixirs.
2. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and elixirs.
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Meanings and Examples of OPIATE
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opiate
n. medicine to induce sleep or deaden pain; something that relieves emotions or causes inaction
Classic Sentence:
1 The opiate worked itself off towards dusk, and she waked naturally; she looked a different being from what she had been before the operation.
2 There were opiates for remorse, drugs that could lull the moral sense to sleep.
3 He was a quack dentist on his rounds, who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and elixirs.
Example Sentence:
1 To say that religion is the opiate of the people is to condemn religion as a drug that keeps the people quiet and submissive to those in power.