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kill gently, as with an injection
the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep -
help someone go to bed
Mother put the baby to sleep
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.