Example sentences for: antidote

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

  • At first glance, McCain-Feingold seemed the perfect antidote to the recent fund-raising scandals at the White House and the national party committees.

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

  • In a nice passage Dan Balz writes, "Virtually every candidate contemplating a presidential campaign will look in the mirror this weekend and see a possible answer for what the country wants after Clinton"--Al Gore the Eagle Scout, Elizabeth Dole the antidote to Clinton's locker-room antics, and so forth.

  • Strong performances are credited: Geoffrey Rush uses the prosecutor Javert as a portrait of zealotry, and Liam Neeson makes the prisoner Valjean, a character without a "recognizable human flaw," seem complex (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). Others praise the film's slow European pace as an antidote to Hollywood's manic style.

  • Jordan demanded that the agents hand over the antidote, which they did.


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