sated; sating
1
: to cloy with overabundance : glut
2
: to appease by indulging to the full
sate one's thirst
Examples of sate in a Sentence
Verb
The meal was more than enough to sate his hunger.
The information sated their curiosity.
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Jared McCallister, New York Daily News, 22 June 2025
After all, a film like Ballerina ostensibly exists only to keep the franchise’s devotees sated in the meantime.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 June 2025
By this logic, the Kremlin might be sated, for example, by a deal that accepts that the occupied parts of Ukraine are rightfully Russian and guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO.
—Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2025
And refined grains are less filling and sating than whole grains.
—Caroline Hopkins Legaspi, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
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Verb
There will be lunches and dinners for $20 or less, and three-course dinners priced at $40 and $60 will be sating appetites during the week.
—Jared McCallister, New York Daily News, 22 June 2025
After all, a film like Ballerina ostensibly exists only to keep the franchise’s devotees sated in the meantime.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 June 2025
By this logic, the Kremlin might be sated, for example, by a deal that accepts that the occupied parts of Ukraine are rightfully Russian and guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO.
—Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2025
And refined grains are less filling and sating than whole grains.
—Caroline Hopkins Legaspi, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Sate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sate. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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