Example sentences for: antidote

How can you use “antidote” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Setting maximum terms of between six and 12 years in office would function as an antidote to Potomac fever and restore the place of the "citizen legislator," whose loyalty would remain with the voters who elected him, not the institution in which he served.

  • Pundit Margaret Carlson of Time pronounced it "an antidote to the zeitgeist of the '80s, when middle-aged tycoons and their acolytes could suddenly drop an inconvenient first wife without social opprobrium," and predicted the film would spark the kind of debate provoked by Thelma & Louise . The Los Angeles Times envisioned a reversal of Hollywood's bias toward male actors: "Could it be that being middle-aged and female has become a Hollywood box-office asset?"

  • The antidote to a crash, as summarized in Friday's Wall Street Journal , is confidence.

  • A piece argues that smaller schools might be an antidote to the gargantuan high schools where adolescents anonymously drift into deep trouble and despair.

  • Some schools have stored syringes of antidote around their buildings.


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