4 Sentences With "constipate"

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My mother said they would constipate us; back then I didn't know what that meant, so I'd just roll my eyes. from The New York Times
But the clumpy, sandy mixture would constipate an 875-mile pipeline, so the companies mix it with water diverted from the Athabasca river. from Business Insider
Critics fret that the control freakery will now constipate Whitehall: "You couldn't blow your nose without Nick or Fi knowing," recalls one former colleague. from Economist
1856 advertisement for the Tilden Company, maker of Tilden's Extract. Tilden's Extract was a 19th-century medicinal cannabis extract, first formulated by James Edward Smith of Edinburgh. In the United States, the Tilden Company of New Lebanon, New York, manufactured and sold the extract under its own name, advertising the drug as: > Phrenic, anæsthetic, anti-spasmodic and hypnotic. Unlike opium, it does not > constipate the bowels, lessen the appetite, create nausea, produce dryness > of the tongue, check pulmonary secretions or produce headache.