How to Use sedate in a Sentence

sedate

1 of 2 adjective

• We walked the beach at a sedate pace.
• He remained sedate under pressure.
• But for those who just want riding lessons, the pace is much more sedate.
  — Nadia Leigh-Hewitson, CNN, 11 July 2022
• Throttle back to a more sedate eight knots, and the burn rate is just five gallons an hour.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2023
• Talking with Die Welt in 2009, Fletcher said the group had been a sedate one for many years.
  — Variety, NBC News, 26 May 2022
• The acid green in the contemporary rug from Dover Rug & Home turns the more sedate shade of blue on its side.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2021
• In Riyadh, her ride was a bit more sedate — her father’s two-year-old Lexus.
  — Margaret Coker, New York Times, 23 June 2018
• The second dining room, on the other side of the entrance way, is more sedate.
  — Joan Wilder, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2020
• The crowd was mostly sedate as the broadcasters on the big screen consulted the U.S. map again and again.
  — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 3 Nov. 2020
• The ride is sedate and the body control taut, erring toward sportiness.
  — Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
• This autumn is more sedate, more comatose, more hunker-down-and-wait-for-the-storm-to-pass.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 25 Nov. 2020
• The town is stately yet sedate, with a grandeur quite out of keeping with its compact size.
  — William Cook, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2022
• On the whole though, this is a fairly sedate and serious film, low on pulp thrills.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• The weather in the Gulf could not have been more sedate, with nearly stationary winds and calm seas.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2020
• This is true even when puttering around at a sedate pace.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 19 Dec. 2022
• Taylor sips a glass of water, sedate and at ease, the very picture of boomer success.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 6 Feb. 2020
• Amid the jubilation, the man with the bullhorn offered a sedate verdict of his own.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• The rooms were a sedate procession of muted teal, gray and black palettes: as if the Bat Cave had food service.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Nov. 2022
• Punctually at 10:30, when the majority of the shops opened, Dean drove up in a dark sedate car, parked on the street and joined me.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2021
• The romance between our very proper sleuths is not quite a slow burn – more a sedate simmer.
  — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2023
• Don't let the aura of sedate elegance fool you: there's always been a playfulness at the heart of this grande dame.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2023
• Yet for all the bloody twists and tear-jerking turns that concept dishes out, the show itself feels oddly sedate.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2022
• The budding romance between our very proper sleuths is not quite a slow burn – more of a sedate simmer.
  — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2023
• Though wind speeds average a sedate 2.2 miles per hour, the thick atmosphere can still impart a good deal of force to the blades of a windmill.
  — Adam Mann, Wired, 15 Dec. 2020
• Vanessa ends up being a sedate affair for him, Vanessa, and the viewers at home.
  — Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2021
• The right-handed version of the molecule doesn’t cause birth defects, but does sedate.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 June 2018
• This is especially the case in Tour, its most sedate driving mode.
  — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2023
• Most thunderstorms churn along at a far more sedate 5–10 mph, which limits their reach.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2021
• As president, Biden has tried to steer US politics back to its more sedate ways.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 2 Sep. 2022
• But Ryan being Ryan, not everything in her home is sedate.
  — ELLE Decor, 30 Sep. 2022

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sedate

2 of 2 verb

• The doctor sedated the patient heavily.
• The elephants are tracked in the park and darts are fired to sedate them.
  — Gregory Gondwe, USA TODAY, 15 July 2022
• The department is going to try to catch the bear, sedate it and then tag it.
  — CBS News, 2 Aug. 2022
• When the kid tried to run, deputies handcuffed him and EMTs sedated him.
  — Ed Williams, ProPublica, 7 Apr. 2023
• The team members sedate the seals with a blow dart and glue a smartphone-sized sensor to the fur on the backs of their heads.
  — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 26 May 2021
• A couple of milligrams, equal to a pinch of salt, is used to sedate elephants.
  — oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2023
• By the end of the week, Miles had been sedated and placed on a ventilator.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 9 May 2020
• To guide the animals to the raft, the team first had to sedate them, and then quickly apply a reversal drug.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2021
• Even though the horns grow back, poachers kill rhinos instead of sedating them to cut off the horns.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2023
• Place your live lobster — still in the market bag — in your freezer for 15 to 20 minutes to sedate it.
  — Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2020
• With the raccoon sedated, officials were able to free him from the storm grate, Bianchi said.
  — Maria Lovato, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• The DJs kept the music sedate as Avalon turned into a large support group.
  — Steve Adelman, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2022
• Paramedics later arrived at the scene and a medic gave McClain ketamine to sedate him.
  — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 26 June 2020
• He was sedated in the intensive care unit for two days.
  — Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2019
• The cows will likely have to be sedated and taken back to Cedar Island by boat.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 13 Nov. 2019
• While Diana was sedated as the machine helped her breathe, Carlos had grown ill with the same virus.
  — Olivia Carville, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• Paramedics called to the scene injected McClain with ketamine to sedate him.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2022
• In another layer of flashback, Lisey finds the syringe that was used to sedate Paul by the cross where Scott buried him.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 25 June 2021
• According to Kirkham, when Joe was filmed with tigers, they were sedated or posed no threat.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2020
• Paramedics arrived on the scene and injected him with 500 milligrams of ketamine to sedate him.
  — Ashlee Banks, Essence, 23 Feb. 2021
• Pierre was in pain when doctors touched his fur, Berg said, so doctors sedated him.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• The process of sedating and capturing a rhino is complex and risky.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 12 June 2023
• Hidden in a leather valise and sedated lest her cries betray her, she was smuggled past SS guards.
  — Bart Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
• First the couple mixed sleeping pills into food to sedate their victims.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2021
• To our eyes, the image looks reposeful, soothing, sedate, like the opening of a Merchant Ivory film.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2020
• Doctors sedated him to help his brain heal, and in recent days Luciano has begun to wake up.
  — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2019
• One scientist told a state news agency that the writing must have been done while the bear was sedated, so clear and steady the lettering.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
• Testing later revealed that one of the children, a 13-year-old girl, was heavily sedated at the time of her death.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
• Aimless and sedated, Carl, falling in and out of sleep over a preset beat from a Casio my-first-keyboard.
  — Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 22 Aug. 2023
• Kaatz was flipped on his stomach for three days while sedated and on the ventilator.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2020

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