sedately
- a word derived from sedate.
Example Sentences
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Sedately the Aldermen, who form a small key group in the great body of Liverymen, retired to vote in private for the inevitable top card.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sedately she describes the doings on the stage where once she ruled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sedately paced melodies in a supermarket slowed down customers enough so that they spent 38% more money.
From Time Magazine Archive
The minutes prick their ears and run about, Then one by one subside again and pass Sedately in, monotonously out.
From Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir
Sedately and gravely as he looks, he is nearly as capricious and volatile as the more arrogant and ferocious one.’
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
