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Examples of sedate in a Sentence
Adjective
We walked the beach at a sedate pace.
He remained sedate under pressure.
Verb
The doctor sedated the patient heavily.
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Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
But, just as the stirring of the royal kava root is done with deliberation, change in Tonga looks set to progress at an equally sedate rate.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 June 2024
Emma Copley Eisenberg, TIME, 24 June 2024
There won’t be anything boring or sedate about San Jose City Hall on Sunday when pop rock music, samba marching and Aztec dance fill the plaza for the latest edition of Viva CalleSJ.
—Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
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Adjective
But no display of airborne voter displeasure was going to prevent one of the country’s most gleefully polarizing public figures from shaking up what had until then been considered a fairly sedate contest between Britain’s two biggest parties.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
But, just as the stirring of the royal kava root is done with deliberation, change in Tonga looks set to progress at an equally sedate rate.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 June 2024
Verb
According to a 2022 article in the ASA Monitor, outpatient surgery, where the patient is sedated only briefly and discharged the same day, as is the case for egg retrievals, now makes up the majority of surgeries in the U.S.
—Emma Copley Eisenberg, TIME, 24 June 2024
There won’t be anything boring or sedate about San Jose City Hall on Sunday when pop rock music, samba marching and Aztec dance fill the plaza for the latest edition of Viva CalleSJ.
—Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
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“Sedate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sedate. Accessed 14 Jul. 2024.
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