PRESCRIBE in a Sentence
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42 example sentences for PRESCRIBE, such as:
1. The law prescribes what should be done.
2. The drug is often prescribed for ulcers.
3. The doctor prepared to prescribe a receipt.
4. She prescribed some pills to help me to sleep.
5. Valium is usually prescribed to treat anxiety.
2. The drug is often prescribed for ulcers.
3. The doctor prepared to prescribe a receipt.
4. She prescribed some pills to help me to sleep.
5. Valium is usually prescribed to treat anxiety.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PRESCRIBE
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prescribe
v. issue commands or orders for
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1 You shall do that which the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.
2 But until the war broke out, few of the Venetian citizens recognized the danger, fewer still the remedy, and none ventured to prescribe it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI.
3 Just the same as though you prayed that a physician might only be called upon to prescribe for headaches, measles, and the stings of wasps, or any other slight affection of the epidermis.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
Context Highlight In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
4 But now we know that these little pills of classical learning possess the medicinal property of anti-nihilism, and we boldly prescribe them to our patients.
5 I am sure that, with your symptoms, my friend Dr. Watson here would prescribe a sedative.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
Context Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
6 I would get Dr. Van Helsing or Dr. Seward to prescribe something for me which would make me sleep, only that I fear to alarm them.
7 The young man wandered up and down the narrow paths, as well as the prescribed limits would allow; the clock struck six; without was heard the horn of a post-boy.
8 The doctors, anxious for my lungs, had prescribed the air of Naples.
9 Mademoiselle de Villefort may retire during the prescribed three months to her estate of Saint-Meran; I say hers, for she inherits it to-day.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault.
Context Highlight In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault.
10 D'Avrigny followed the invalid, wrote a prescription, ordered Villefort to take a cabriolet, go in person to a chemist's to get the prescribed medicine, bring it himself, and wait for him in his daughter's room.
11 I then bound myself once more to the prescribed conditions.
12 And the celebrated doctor expounded his plan of treatment with Soden waters, a remedy obviously prescribed primarily on the ground that they could do no harm.
13 Kitty was to be back from abroad in the middle of the summer, and bathing had been prescribed for her.
14 The doctor opined that the indisposition arose from fatigue and excitement, and prescribed rest.
15 In a word, he was so horribly bored by existing circumstances, that he forgot to go in for boredom in the manner prescribed by the authorities.
Example Sentence:
1 He may be able to prescribe you something for that cough.
2 The doctor prepared to prescribe a receipt.
3 They encourage doctors to prescribe cheaper generic drugs instead of more expensive brand names.
4 You can prescribe nil tax rates for one or more of the property classes.
5 Books must be kept according to a prescribed form.
6 Valium is usually prescribed to treat anxiety.
7 Our doctor diagnosed a throat infection and prescribed antibiotic and junior aspirin.
8 The drug is often prescribed for ulcers.
9 She prescribed some pills to help me to sleep.
10 Be sure to steep the fabric in the dye bath for the full time prescribed.
11 The doctor prescribed chocolate pills for his patient who was a hypochondriac.
12 There is no prescribed order in which assertions must be checked.
13 The doctor prescribed the tapering of the dose.
14 My doctor prescribes aspirin for every complaint.
15 The law prescribes what should be done.