The word "sedate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a person, situation, or behavior as calm, dignified, and restrained. Example sentence: "The guests at the dinner party were quite sedate, quietly discussing politics in the corner."
Entitled Headbanging in the Mirror, it's wistful lounge music, serene and sunlit; and generally in keeping with all of Real Estate's sedate, suburban aesthetics.
Yes, Canberra is still a sedate place that can feel half-empty when parliament is not sitting.
McCullum and Watling restored the equilbrium with a fifth-wicket stand of 121, of which McCullum made 55, from 99 balls, (relatively sedate for him) before Wood had him lbw.
Not many political "rock stars" inspire audience members to knit, but, even by Washington's sedate standards, the darling of America's new left is a quiet revolutionary.
Development may be moving at a more sedate pace for the time being.
IN OTHERWISE sedate Cheltenham, a Regency spa town known chiefly for horse-racing, a girls boarding school and Britain's signals intelligence agency, one subject boils the blood: the A417.
She forecasts a deceleration of about half that pace this year.The more sedate reality is sinking in.
Piers were a marine version of the parkland walks at spas, sedate and quiet.
But even in these cases, events are taking a more sedate turn than they might have a few years ago.
The Halifax, now a bank, said on October 2nd that its index had gained a more sedate 6.9%.Mainly, this gap reflects regional differences.
The producers understood that money and family together make the perfect stuff of drama.Koch Industries, an oil, gas and commodities conglomerate based in Wichita, Kansas, makes "Dallas" look sedate by comparison.
