sedately

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Sedately paced melodies in a supermarket slowed down customers enough so that they spent 38% more money.

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Sedately she describes the doings on the stage where once she ruled.

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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.

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Sedately, as if conscious of having modestly performed a gallant service, the mine-sweepers bore up for home, and once again the Calder was left to stand by her prize.

From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

I heard the big clock—stiff and stark— Sedately ticking in the dark, And when I murmured: 'Hurry, do!'

From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)