ANTIDOTE in a Sentence

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For ANTIDOTE, below is one of 11 sentences:
Leonardus Camillus had seen a white stone taken from the brain of a newly killed toad, that was a certain antidote against poison.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANTIDOTE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
antidote
 n.  medicine to counteract a poison or disease; agent that relieves or counteracts
Classic Sentence:
1  Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Leonardus Camillus had seen a white stone taken from the brain of a newly killed toad, that was a certain antidote against poison.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
3  To Sergey Ivanovitch the country meant on one hand rest from work, on the other a valuable antidote to the corrupt influences of town, which he took with satisfaction and a sense of its utility.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
4  From certain cloistered old authors I have gathered that this same sea-unicorn's horn was in ancient days regarded as the great antidote against poison, and as such, preparations of it brought immense prices.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
5  To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
Example Sentence:
1  Creative activity serves as an effective antidote to depression.
2  Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
3  Itself is a lonely, but also make you feel lonely antidote.
4  They kept whiskey to antidote themselves against snake bike.
5  We must seek an antidote for whatever toxic substance he has eaten.
6  They believe that because this anti-heroin antidote is what finally worked with some of the victims.