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Example sentences for "sate"

Lexicographically close words:
sat; sata; satanical; satchel; satchels; sated; sateen; satellite; satellites; sates
  1. Spring had come again; and one beautiful May-day, Leonard Fairfield sate beside the little fountain which he had now actually constructed in the garden.

  2. He put up at the principal inn--refreshed himself by a general ablution--and sate down with a good appetite to his beef-steak and pint of port.

  3. But Blanche did not run away, and her dignity seemed exceedingly hurt at my mode of taking her alarming proposition, for she retired into a corner pouting, and sate down with great majesty.

  4. Let the King's woe its muse in Silence claim, 98 When sense return'd, and solitary life Sate in the Shadow!

  5. Where sate DUW-IOU, ere his reign was lost.

  6. I've sate under it mony a bonnie summer afternoon, when it hung its gay garlands ower the poppling water.

  7. He sate next to his father and was very demure at least halfe dinner time.

  8. The third day they remained in armor, but yet absteining from battell, sate still, in taking meate and drinke to relieue their [Sidenote: Twentie thousand dead bodies.

  9. In the time of C[oe]lestine bishop of Rome, who sate in the 423.

  10. Argus; and some lesser lights, who, on one pretext and another, hope to gain admittance and sate their curiosity.

  11. But when he had sate down and his horses had begun to feed, a certain wicked and perverse plebeian, the owner of the place, rushed forward in the fury of anger to expel him forth.

  12. There he sate for a long time while the sun passed over, and a little breeze came wandering up the moor.

  13. When I rose to go, she sate still for a minute, and her eyes filled with quiet tears, "Ah, those were happy days!

  14. Opposite him as he sate was the face of a great pile of rocks, and while his eye dwelt upon it it suddenly began to wink and glisten with little moving points, dots so minute that he could hardly distinguish them.

  15. Whilst the goldsmith had been relating this, the old Jew had sate leaning his arms on the table, with his hands before his eyes, groaning and sighing like one suffering unendurable tortures.

  16. They sate down on a seat which was in a lonely place, and the Stranger commenced as follows.

  17. Meanwhile a splendid supper had been served, and to this they all sate down, in the happiest mood of mind.

  18. So the punch steamed, while the fire sparkled and blazed; and the company sate down round the little tea-table.

  19. In her room upstairs sate Angelica in wedding-dress, beaming in the full pride of her loveliness: her mother was with her.

  20. In her excitement she made them even prettier than before; and sweet, grave little Sate had no trouble in selling every one.

  21. Little Sate thought so; she had planned for it that very afternoon.

  22. What if the "stuff" which Sate said made him "cross" had already made him a drunkard!

  23. I suppose they will take Sate with them then.

  24. Little Sate looked on, interested, pleased, but without the slightest shade of envy.

  25. Was it because she was afraid her father would not let her take Sate and Susie to church any more?

  26. Little Sate was to be disappointed, after all!

  27. And as Norm managed to nod an answer, she continued: "They have stolen my heart utterly; that little Sate is the dearest little thing.

  28. Meantime, little Sate was not out in the sunshine.

  29. The door was open into the hall, and poor little tired Sate must have slipped away into the sunshine outside.

  30. Sate dear, would you give one little old woman to me?

  31. On the east I sate that day, up against a willow grey: Toll slowly.

  32. She upsprang, she rose upright, in his selle she sate in sight, By her love she overcame.

  33. I sate all night beside thee: The grey owl on the ruined wall shut both his eyes to hide thee, And ever he flapped his heavy wing all brokenly and weak, And the long grass waved against the sky, around his gasping beak.

  34. There I sate beneath the tree, and the bell tolled solemnly, Toll slowly.

  35. Some comfort, and my heart grew young; I sate down smiling there and sung The song I learnt in my maidenhood.

  36. I sate down beneath the beech Which leans over to the lane, And the far sound of your speech Did not promise any pain; And I blessed you full and free, With a smile stooped tenderly O'er the May-flowers on my knee.

  37. A modern audience would hardly have sate in patience to hear more than the first extravagant and ludicrous supposition of Cortez: As if our old world modestly withdrew; And here, in private, had brought forth a new.

  38. Once she sate with you and me, On a red gold throne in the heart of the sea, And the youngest sate on her knee.

  39. XXVII He said, ‘As I came over a more, I see a lady where shee sate Betweene an oke and a green hollen; Shee was clad in red scarlett.

  40. LVIII He stroake upon his harpe againe, And play’d a pretty thinge; The ladye lough a loud laughter, As shee sate by the king.

  41. XV And as he rode over a more, Hee see a lady where shee sate Betwixt an oke and a greene hollen[191]; She was cladd in red scarlett.

  42. IV This outlaw call’d his merry men all, As they sate under the green-wood tree: If any of you have gold to spend, I pray you heartily spend it with me.

  43. Master sate pale and wincing, as I've seen a pore soldier under the cat.

  44. Jest at the place was a bench, and on the bench sate a poorly drest woman, and by her, leaning against a tree, was a man whom I thought I'd sean befor.

  45. He sate down with his eyes open, staring before him as on some terrible object which he beheld with horror, yet from which he could not withhold his eyes.

  46. She sate by the pillar; we saw her clear: "Margaret, hist!

  47. On a red gold throne in the heart of the sea, And the youngest sate on her knee.

  48. The tight red suit of velvet sate handsomely upon his well-formed limbs, and in his raven locks was woven a coronet of flowers.

  49. But Francis had long been peeping between the leaves after a handsome female, who sate at the end of the green-house under a blooming oleander, and seemed to be reading diligently in an old manuscript.

  50. Heidenreich, and sate down quietly by his side.

  51. On the Friday after George, in the year 1571, sate Francis Friend, with broken spirits, in the Hildebrand of Schweidnitz, his constant quarters since the time of his arrest.

  52. Erasmus sate again at the green-covered table, with deep sorrow in his iron features, for now that the spirit of vengeance was satisfied, pain had found more room in his hard heart.

  53. She had sate thus for some time, when with anxious speed her uncle entered the apartment.

  54. An old farmer who sate sipping his petit verre near me, explained to me that the man was a resident of Barisis, a little village not very far off, the dwellers in which from time immemorial have been known as 'the pigs of Barisis.

  55. He took off his cloak, enriched with fur and jewels, as no seat was offered him, made it into a roll, and sate down on it.

  56. After dinner we sate out in front of the little inn for a time with our coffee.

  57. The little creatures, ranged in categories according to their years, were pictures of health and good humour, as they sate in rows at their little desks, or marched about, singing in choruses.

  58. When he rose with the rest to leave, he left the cloak where he had sate on it.

  59. Empson and Dudley and others, were laid by the heels to sate the vengeance of the people.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    allay; appease; assuage; cloy; cram; feast; feed; fill; glut; gorge; gratify; jade; overdose; pall; quench; regale; sate; satiate; satisfy; saturate; slake; stall; stuff; suffice; surfeit


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    sate down; satellite earth