When the disappointed retiarius skipped back to the length of his net-cord and retrieved his net by means of it, Palus let him gather it up, never dashed at him, but merely stepped sedately towards him.
When the last Satronian had vanished round the corner of the thoroughfare I reëntered my litter and we set off for the Palace, both dogs sedately pacing side by side underneath.
When, a little later, we went upstairs, James was sedately sipping more tea from a cup.
Seeing that her mother wished to be left in quiet the girl walked sedately by her side, ever and anon stealing a glance of apprehension at the lady's face.
Peggy gave a backward look at her reflection in the mirror, and well pleased with what she saw there followed her mother sedately to the drawing-room where Robert Dale and his uncle, Mr. Jacob Deering, awaited them.
Sedately she passed into the dwelling and went directly to Mistress Sevier's chamber, where the Bible lay on a small table.
It makes a pretty picture as you come along the level road from Pickering, with a group of trees on the left and the tower of the Priory Church appearing sedately above the humble roofs.
Immediately below the rack sat the human embodiment of the label, a solid, sedate individual, sedately dressed, sedately conversational.
And then, as they trotted sedately through Madison Avenue, he strained her in his arms and kissed her.
And when at length the meal had marched sedately down to the fruit, Mrs. Holt rose and drew Honora out of the dining room.
She moved sedately back into the room, only to discover that he also had risen, to look out of the window over Max's shoulder.
She controlled her blush before it could overwhelm her, and very sedately she made answer.
The shadow of that dense column of smoke sidled sedately on the water also, shifting with the shifting spirals of the reality.
They had to walk so sedately without venturing to touch one another.
So down the pathway, inches deep in dust, she walked sedately towards the glimmer of the lantern by the gate, followed deferentially by Iman.
Within lies the old town, more sedately and unconsciously its very self in April than at any other time of year.
Tiny pines sprout there, playing sedately as if already touched with the thought of their coming solemnity.
Outside the sedately rotating metal hulls--the one a polished blue-silver and the other a glittering golden bronze--the cosmos continued to be as always.
Then the sun returned, floating sedately above the valley, and Baird could see his enemy.
Uncle Podger walked sedately down the ladder, turned a back somersault, and bobbed up again, in time to see the Pimple make a show of diving off the top, decide that it was too high, and walk down it.
But we never tire of watching the quaint actions and postures of the Stilts, troops of which stalk sedately in the shallows close at hand.
Sundry Stilts, Egrets, and four Squacco Herons stalked sedately in the shallows--one of the latter presently perching on a broken bulrush within ten yards of the boat.
Gradually the Congregation melted away, broughams and victorias drove off sedately down the road, the horses making as little sound as possible with their hoofs.
Afterwards they made a little private fire for themselves a hundred feet or so from Imbrie, and sedately sat themselves down beside it to talk.
Stonor added a postscript to his letter, and sedately folded it.
Now with snow upon both their heads he still sedately marched where he had once danced attendance upon her.
So I was spending this evening sedately in my own apartments at the Continental; and meanwhile I lisped in numbers that (or I flattered myself) had a Homeric tang; and at times chewed the end of my pencil meditatively.
At the barn end they drew together in the shadow for a long minute, and then again Ralph saw Meg's back as she walked sedately to the kitchen door, the cans flashing rhythmically as she swung them.
Winsome walked slowly and sedately back, not looking on the world any more, but only twining and pulling roughly the strings of her sunbonnet till one came off.
He carried the small, neatly wrapped parcel in his hand, walking most sedately so long as Winsome's eyes were upon him.
Jock was a quiet man who walked sedately and took counsel of no one.
She entered the dreaming courtyard, and walked sedately across its silent sun- flooded spaces without a sound.
The revolving door, through which Linda sedately permitted herself to be moved, opened into a high space of numerous columns and benches, writing-desks and palms.
She had an air of responsibility, sometimes expressed in a troubled frown, and again by the way she hurried sedately through drifting figures toward a definite purpose and end.
Miss Eden smiled sedately and bent her head, passing by the visitors with an easy demeanour and assured step, and made her way to where the organ, small, but sweet and powerful, occupied a corner near the chancel.
He sighed again, then smiled, and entered the house, Nebbie sedately following.
It had funny little bits of useless wings, and its eyes looked so solemnly and sedately at me that I was almost ashamed to kill it.
It had funny little bits of useless wings, and its eyes looked so solemnly and sedately at me, that I was almost ashamed to kill it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sedately" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: earnestly; grandly; gravely; grimly; loftily; nobly; quietly; seriously; soberly; solemnly
