tonic - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • generalize: Partial seizures can progress into a generalized tonic clonic seizure.
  • prove: However, a first-half goal - his first for the club - and a place in the fifth round proved a useful tonic.

Adjective modifier

  • soothing: A soothing tonic indeed to then read Woolf's paean to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, Flush.
  • digestive: An infusion taken two to three times daily is a digestive tonic or can be used externally to wash wounds.
  • herbal: More... Hawthorn & Artichoke Formula A herbal tonic to help us survive in a polluted world.
  • bitter: The tincture was formerly used as a bitter tonic and antiperiodic and had the reputation of curing leprosy.
  • perfect: Romantic Weekend Breaks A romantic weekend break can be the perfect tonic.
  • immune: Immune tonics are herbs that support you between bouts of ill-health and which hopefully prevent illness or reduce the severity.

Modifies a noun

  • sol-fa: So he returned to Hungary with the Curwen books and over the next decade revised and refined tonic sol-fa.
  • spasm: Tonic spasms may develop at 3 - 4 months.
  • herb: Used as a tonic herb, when the body is under stress.
  • seizure: Tonic seizure tend to last no longer than 10 seconds.
  • wine: The drink of Airdrie is Buckfast, a 12 % proof tonic wine created in Devon by the Monks of Buckfast abbey.
  • water: Drinking orange juice or tonic water may help to alleviate any cramp pain.

Noun used with modifier

  • vodka: Frozen vodka tonics were served up a flight of broad mahogany steps in a nearby tree.
  • nerve: Over a period of time, oats can act as a nerve tonic, reducing stress and aiding relaxation.
  • liver: Consider using a liver tonic to help detoxify the body.
  • spring: March 1987: " ' Phantom ' works like good, spring tonic " by Frank Hunter The Clayton Citizen Journal.
  • heart: Hypertension, heart tonic, ongoing research into tumor therapy.
  • brain: John Carey in the Sunday Times says of him: " The way Dawkins writes about science is not just a brain tonic.

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