sedate

Example Sentences

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He added that some surveys suggest that sedate hiring has made job hunting especially frustrating for those out of work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

As digital assets trade 24/7, the typically quiet holiday period may not be so sedate for crypto stocks.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025

The back of the room — populated with parents, guardians and supervisors — is more sedate.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

Though the outcomes encoded here are colored by midcentury manners, they are surprisingly daring and averse to sedate moralism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

After we ate, we started to drift into a sedate sleepiness again.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall