Sentence examples for sedate us from inspiring English sources
The game here is also fast-paced and frantic compared to the more sedate US version of the sport – perhaps without television advertising to slow the pace.
It is just past noon and the more sedate among us are still drinking coffee.
A little girl sipping a sedate soft drink eyed us with a mix of envy and puzzlement as she asked her mother why four grown ladies would order dessert before dinner.
A lot of US cities look like sedate suburbs to an outsider – bungalows, garages, lawns – and so does Oak Cliff.
Before "Stand Firm" came out, the author's note tells us, Brinkmann lived "the relatively sedate life of a professor of psychology at Aalborg University".
In front of her sat a younger woman, sedate and pretty, perhaps a teacher; some of us pictured her as the Henry Fonda character whose gentle persistence would finally win over her colleagues, as in 'Twelve Angry Men'.
"When they are this big we just sedate them, so there is no chance of us getting chomped," said Chris Burke.
"John would provide us with jars that held nail polish to sedate the insects," said his sister Tracy Ellis.
The sedate, formal staff occasionally allow themselves a teeny jape with US guests: when asked how old the restaurant is, they smile: "About 20 years younger than your country".
Recently, my granddaughter's 11th birthday was celebrated at a sedate tea party: all adults except for her, and some of us of advanced age.
The general image of Canada here is a sedate neighbor that, except for its French-speaking population, is just like us.
