sedately

Example Sentences

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After an explosive start, Shahidi played sedately through the middle of the innings, making sure to keep up with the run rate without taking unnecessary risks.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2023

So the cart kept to a maintenance path, screened from view by vegetation and decorative fencing as it rolled sedately toward the resort’s west end.

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2021

If they turned nasty, he was able to walk sedately down the lane, swinging his hips.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 30, 2019

Now with short hair and more sedately dressed in a velvet jacket, Carpenter doesn’t look quite so Fluxus as he once did.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2018

I was glad to be driving sedately at twenty-five miles an hour through vast, straight-furrowed grainlands, under an even gray sky, towards a capital whose government believed in Order.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin