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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Rob Goss, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025
Keep your afternoons more sedate.
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Charlotte Observer, 20 Aug. 2025
As of Wednesday morning, Yonah said she was sedated and medical staff were going to try to wake her up soon.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
The best of it is visible on a sedate train ride on the open-air Kurobe Gorge Railway, which traces the emerald Kurobe River between the rural hot-spring towns of Unazuki and Nekomata on a route engulfed by deep red maples.
—Rob Goss, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025
Keep your afternoons more sedate.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
Its medical standing allowed veterinarians to sedate the bobcat in the field, give it anesthesia for safety and comfort, and later to euthanize it.
—Charlotte Observer, 20 Aug. 2025
As of Wednesday morning, Yonah said she was sedated and medical staff were going to try to wake her up soon.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
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“Sedate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sedate. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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