put to sleep

VERB
  1. kill gently, as with an injection
    the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep
  2. help someone go to bed
    Mother put the baby to sleep
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How To Use put to sleep In A Sentence

  • There were still relics like this lurking in farm buildings when I started out on my agricultural life: I recall finding a woodworm-infected patten lying in the manger of a stable a week or so after the last draught horse had been put to sleep. Country diary: North Derbyshire
  • Everyone gets put to sleep, then wakes up when they arrive. The Sun
  • The government has also received dozens of reports of babies who were put to sleep on their back or side and were later found in a potentially dangerous position in or near the sleep positioner. FDA Issues Warning on Infant Sleep Aids
  • If an animal bites or is vicious it is put to sleep so why let any convicted murderer roam our streets?
  • Alternatively, other owners are reluctant to have a pet put to sleep either for religious reasons, or perhaps because that animal is the last link they have with their deceased spouse.
  • Everyone gets put to sleep, then wakes up when they arrive. The Sun
  • If an animal bites or is vicious it is put to sleep so why let any convicted murderer roam our streets?
  • a borrowee is someone who lends something to the borrower; and a boree is the person who is put to sleep by a bore. complainee stood out in this list because unlike these other - complainee are only two of a kind of reverse love triangle; there are complainee is the person being complained about. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
  • The hedgehogs will be caught in specially baited traps before being put to sleep with gas and then killed by lethal injection.
  • Their cat was growing old and blind and would have to be put to sleep.
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