Examples of “dose” in a Sentence

noun A measured amount of medicine taken at one time.

• The label warns you not to take more than one dose a day.
• Take one dose every eight hours with food.
• The vet calculated the correct dose based on the dog's weight.

verb To give someone a dose of medicine or a drug.

• She dosed the sick child with cough syrup before bedtime.
• The farmer dosed the sheep against worms every spring.
• The nurse dosed the patient with painkillers before the procedure.