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Example sentences for "dose"

Lexicographically close words:
dorsum; dort; dory; dos; dosage; dosed; dosen; doses; dosh; dosing
  1. If the person is conscious of having eaten something indigestible, as unripe or overripe fruit, then it is best to aid nature by taking some gentle laxative, as a laxative dose of Lydia E.

  2. I began to feel better after taking the first dose of Vegetable Compound, and am now like a new woman.

  3. Felix had a sick spell soon after we began our dream books, and Aunt Janet essayed to cure him by administering a dose of liver pills which Elder Frewen had assured her were a cure-all for every disease the flesh is heir to.

  4. I slipped away at this point, suddenly remembering that it was time to take a dose of magic seed.

  5. And I'm going to take a dose of Mexican Tea every two hours.

  6. Give her a good dose of Mexican Tea and try that first," said Aunt Janet.

  7. Then I remembered that I had forgotten to take my dose of magic seed, and I hastened to do it, although I was beginning to lose faith in it.

  8. Uncle Roger says he needs a dose of physic.

  9. His lips trembled, and the pupils of his eyes were dilated, as if by a dose of belladonna.

  10. The old people swallowed their boiling spirit with relish, my parents took their dose with shuddering politeness, and the thermometer rose steadily.

  11. Give the corpse a good dose of arsenic, and make sure work of it!

  12. No further attempt was made during the war, to reach Richmond by means of iron-clads; the dose which Farrand had given them was quite sufficient.

  13. As with morphine, to use either of these drugs effectively means in the long run the necessary increase of the dose up to the limit of physical tolerance.

  14. As with the other drugs, in order to maintain the desired result the dose must be increased in proportion as tolerance increases.

  15. In the first place, lessening the dose is of little avail; there is as much suffering in the final deprivation of a customary quarter of a grain as of twenty grains.

  16. That is why, and even if they have a dose of the Teuton in them, they have often to feel themselves exiles when still in amicable community among the preponderating Saxon English.

  17. But those who labour in the field to shovel the clods of earth to History, would be wiser of their fellows for a minor dose of it.

  18. They had their ramble, agreeable to both, despite the admonitory dose administered to one of them.

  19. The literary dose was a strong one for her; but she saw the index, and got a lift from the sound.

  20. Well, sir, steady Benny ought to be satisfied with his dose in, say, about forty minutes.

  21. And he did manage to stagger up to the bar and swallow another dose of poison, which was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

  22. And so the ignorant stranger, on his first introduction to it, takes dose after dose of it, and goes home wondering why people are so mortally in dread of absinthe.

  23. Dose goots, ma tear sir, vat ish anshent, and hef historical associations, are wort any money.

  24. The immunizing dose is not so large as the curative dose given to the patient, but it is usually sufficient to protect those exposed to diphtheria for a month from the time of injection.

  25. The professor soon had a dose mixed and gave it to Bob.

  26. The nitre, according to the directions, was good for fevers and they decided to give Bob a larger dose than was called for, as they had an idea the stuff was for children, and that a full grown youth would need more.

  27. I guess I can get along without a dose of soothing syrup.

  28. So you might as well give him a full dose and take the pot.

  29. Let's have a dose of t'rant'lar juice to set you up.

  30. It was a bitter dose to have to ask for further help.

  31. But then I venture to think that the dose of fineness which is, so to speak, super or too much, just turns these folks' refinement into something its reverse.

  32. It was like telling a man that you were going to give him a dose of oil for the bellyache when he wanted an operation for appendicitis.

  33. But after all that was but one chance in a hundred: the action of the drug was incalculable, and the addition of a few drops to the regular dose would probably do no more than procure for her the rest she so desperately needed.

  34. She had long since raised the dose to its highest limit, but tonight she felt she must increase it.

  35. The multiplicity of ingredients which at one time entered into the composition of one dose of physic could only be spoken of under the title of "legion.

  36. Wrestling with a dose of Small Pox on the Llano Esticado 285 XXIX.

  37. I think we had better increase the dose to five grains.

  38. I heard the deliberate tread of the man, as he crossed the room for a larger dose of the poison, while I hurriedly deliberated the question of what I should do.

  39. The inhabitants of Kamschatka prepare a liquor from an infusion of this Agaric which taken in a small quantity exhilarates the spirits, but in a larger dose brings on a trembling of the nerves, intoxication, delirium and melancholy.

  40. Look a-heah, chile, dose cherries fo' to preserve.

  41. Ardelia, I thank you for a dose of calm," she said, laying her hand affectionately on the black woman's broad shoulder.

  42. A dose of Jarvis Jocelyn was the correct prescription.

  43. The common dose is from ten grains to thirty.

  44. The dose is from ten grains to a scruple.

  45. The dose is a scruple or half a dram, taken at night.

  46. Seeing the dose of Scammony is increased according to the author in this medicine, you may use a less weight of Scammony if you please.

  47. The dose is from a dram to half a dram, take it either in white Wine, or decoction of herbs tending to the same purposes.

  48. The dose is one dram at most, corrected with a little Mastich, dissolved in Vinegar and outwardly applied helps the passions of the spleen.

  49. The dose is usually the quantity of a nutmeg at a time morning and evening, or (unless they are purging) when you please.

  50. Twenty grains taken inwardly is a sufficient dose for one time, and let that be corrected with half so much cinnamon; country people used to rowel their cattle with it.

  51. The dose is from half a dram to two drams, according to the age and strength of the patient, as also the strength of the diseases: you may take it either in the morning, or when urgent occasion calls for it.

  52. The usual dose of cordial electuaries, is from half a dram to two drams; of purging electuaries, from half an ounce to an ounce.

  53. The dose is from one ounce to three, according as the body is in age and strength.

  54. It purges the body of choler and melancholy, and expels the relics a disease hath left behind it; the dose is from one ounce to two, you may take it in a Decoction of Senna, it leaves a binding quality behind it.

  55. The dose is half a dram, you may make it into an electuary with honey, and take two drams of that at a time.

  56. And you will accordingly find the dose doubled.

  57. I told her I believed I had one dose prepared for my master in a dish of tea about six weeks ago.

  58. The witness then told her that she believed she had herself taken, about six weeks before, a dose in tea that was prepared for her master.

  59. But that poor old bobby with a dose of Number Two!

  60. The dose cost us a lot, so it ought not to be detected by the first man consulted.

  61. I'm afraid so; and the remedy a daily dose of verbifuge--until he gets back to the suffocated fount of inspiration.

  62. But, for all that, they have been inoculated with far too strong a dose of Western culture, religion, and habits of thought to display the apathy or submit to the fatalism which characterises the conduct of the true Eastern.

  63. Moreover, he at times brings a dose of vivacious French wit to temper the gloom of Russian realism.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    administer; amount; anoint; apply; bag; bang; batch; bestow; booster; budget; bunch; chancre; chunk; clap; clutch; count; deal; deck; dope; dose; draft; dram; draught; draughtsman; draughty; drug; enforce; fix; force; give; gonorrhea; group; heap; hit; hunk; injection; lot; measure; mess; nip; number; oil; overdose; pack; parcel; paresis; part; portion; potion; prescribe; quantity; ration; salve; shot; slug; sum; syphilis; tabes