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
  • At first, the wetland was sedate.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 ride is sedate and the body control taut, erring toward sportiness.
    — Car and Driver, 18 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
  • 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
  • Taylor sips a glass of water, sedate and at ease, the very picture of boomer success.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 6 Feb. 2020
  • This autumn is more sedate, more comatose, more hunker-down-and-wait-for-the-storm-to-pass.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Mostly, only small groups of sedate strollers were about on this midsummer evening.
    — Paul Tullis, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Keep your afternoons more sedate.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • This is especially the case in Tour, its most sedate driving mode.
    — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most thunderstorms churn along at a far more sedate 5–10 mph, which limits their reach.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The right-handed version of the molecule doesn’t cause birth defects, but does sedate.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 June 2018
  • There are two types of personalities (at the cafe), playful and sedate.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Amid the jubilation, the man with the bullhorn offered a sedate verdict of his own.
    — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • Vanessa ends up being a sedate affair for him, Vanessa, and the viewers at home.
    — Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2021
  • This will be a chance to show ourselves in a new setting, moving away from the sedate, heavy trappings to something more modern.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Viewers across the world woke up from this sedate event, with some very strong feelings in response to both actors’ behaviors.
    — Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
  • These are used to make the case for putting a little bitcoin in a portfolio that consists largely of a sedate balanced fund.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • At 113 feet tall, the one-time tallest coaster in the world seems almost sedate by today’s thrill ride standards.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • 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
  • As president, Biden has tried to steer US politics back to its more sedate ways.
    — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Their transfer-market activity over those same few weeks was rather more sedate, though, and perhaps that should not come as a surprise.
    — Mark Critchley, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026

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
  • A couple of milligrams, equal to a pinch of salt, is used to sedate elephants.
    — oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Left alone with teenage girls and the means to sedate them, a dentist takes advantage.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Samson is sedated by the dart and lets go of Kelson.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • First the couple mixed sleeping pills into food to sedate their victims.
    — New York Times, 5 July 2021
  • Pierre was in pain when doctors touched his fur, Berg said, so doctors sedated him.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 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
  • They can only be sedated long enough to be carefully brought down to ground level.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
  • By the end of the week, Miles had been sedated and placed on a ventilator.
    — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 9 May 2020
  • Kaatz was flipped on his stomach for three days while sedated and on the ventilator.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Of course, this is when the compounds are used alone and not together with other sedating drugs.
    — David Kroll, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The medical team confirmed that he was still sedated.
    — Weike Wang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
  • When the kid tried to run, deputies handcuffed him and EMTs sedated him.
    — Ed Williams, ProPublica, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The process of sedating and capturing a rhino is complex and risky.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 12 June 2023
  • With the raccoon sedated, officials were able to free him from the storm grate, Bianchi said.
    — Maria Lovato, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • According to Kirkham, when Joe was filmed with tigers, they were sedated or posed no threat.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • The cows will likely have to be sedated and taken back to Cedar Island by boat.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Paramedics later arrived at the scene and a medic gave McClain ketamine to sedate him.
    — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 26 June 2020
  • At one point, experts sedated Zoe and let Taavi nurse while she was sedated.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
  • After several hours, crews appeared to sedate the bear and take it into custody.
    — Austin Turner, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • After she was sedated and the zip ties were cut off, the dog was taken to a critical care specialist.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The zebra was sedated, briefly airlifted to a truck and trailer and taken back to its new owners.
    — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Paramedics called to the scene injected McClain with ketamine to sedate him.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The chimpanzee was sedated and returned to her exhibit.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025

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