OPIATE in a Sentence

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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.

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 Meanings and Examples of OPIATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  There were opiates for remorse, drugs that could lull the moral sense to sleep.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
3  He was a quack dentist on his rounds, who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and elixirs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
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.