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Example sentences for "steadied"

Lexicographically close words:
steadable; steade; steadfast; steadfastly; steadfastness; steadier; steadies; steadiest; steadily; steadiness
  1. She drew her breath and steadied herself, still gripping his hand.

  2. She braced her feet and gripped the sides of the car, gasping for breath, steadied herself at last and crouched low among the furs to guard her throat from the icy daggers of the wind.

  3. Then, in the suddenly steadied glance fixed upon nothing from under a thoughtful frown, appeared the man.

  4. The immense contempt he felt for Sotillo steadied him, and he said oracularly, "No doubt it is well concealed by this time.

  5. He saw an ancient country staggering from side to side on its road to ruin, while the hands which had directed and steadied it for centuries lay bound or idle.

  6. The brandy steadied him for the moment, but his rage was still there, and had to be vented on somebody, and presently he opened the door into the shop and called his son.

  7. Jeckie steadied herself among the wreckage, looking down the darkness beneath it.

  8. With an effort he steadied himself and turned away.

  9. Blind terror gripped him for the moment, and when his brain steadied he looked up to meet, from the threshold of the adjoining room, the enraged flash of Christopher's eyes.

  10. His hands trembled violently as he steadied himself to deliver his final blow.

  11. The pugilist looked in the direction of the Captain as he drew away from the minister and steadied himself against an upright.

  12. Hank steadied him while Jud Johnson massaged the bruised neck and bathed the bleeding ear.

  13. This was the threat in the sound which reached her, soft or loud, as bells are heard in the wind, and in the meantime she steadied herself with varying arguments.

  14. There were thoughts behind his eyes; he seemed to waver, and she steadied her own face for fear of doing the one thing that would not move him.

  15. Alan steadied the ladder while Kurt tightened the wing nuts on the antenna mounting atop the synagogue's roof.

  16. Kurt insisted on putting up that access point, while Alan and Lyman steadied the ladder.

  17. Alan steadied his knife hand before him, unmindful of the sticky blood.

  18. Then the Princeton pitcher steadied down.

  19. On the next delivery Warner steadied himself and got a strike over the plate.

  20. He reached his hand into his pocket and was steadied by the feeling of the cold steel.

  21. The green boat sheered a little, then steadied and came on, keeping to us, though nearly a length astern.

  22. And Jane and I are the ablest little seawomen in the bunch so we are going to row you and Ellen, Mabel," and Frances steadied the dinghy with a far-reaching foot and leg, while Jane dropped over the side and put in the rowlocks.

  23. The last time Mabel slipped, you steadied yourself by grabbing my left ear," said Frances ruefully.

  24. And as if the sound of his uncle's name steadied him for an instant, Charlie made for the door with an unevenness of gait which would have told the shameful truth if his words had not already done so.

  25. The eye should be still further steadied by the conjunctiva and subjacent cellular tissue on the inner side being seized by a pair of catch-forceps, still with no downward pressure on the ball.

  26. The simplest and safest operation is the following:-- The patient recumbent, and the lids held apart by a speculum, the eyeball should be steadied by the forceps of an assistant.

  27. A large curved staff with a central groove is to be held firmly hooked up against the symphysis pubis, and then steadied by the left forefinger in the rectum.

  28. His hands clutched the velvet hangings in a moment of physical weakness and he steadied himself before turning to call Tom.

  29. He took a step toward the desk, stopped and gripped the back of the settee, steadied himself, and glared at the thing with fascination.

  30. He closed the door softly, steadied himself before loosing the knob and turned to his father in a burst of sudden rebellion: "Oh, Dad!

  31. Many lean-to houses are still standing in New England.

  32. It is a view of the Old South Church, Boston; and with its hooped dames and coach and footman, has a certain value as indicating the costume of the times.

  33. This steadied him, for he had no desire to lame himself for life.

  34. It steadied the rifle considerably, but he had to cramp himself a little to raise the muzzle.

  35. The Parson set his legs apart and steadied himself by the railing, while Wogan climbed up and knelt on to his shoulders.

  36. On the preceding day they had been admitted to his presence, and he had given them his instructions in a weak voice, and had even steadied his trembling hand sufficiently to affix his signature to a state document.

  37. He steadied up when he got married and started on a small selection of his own; but within the year Clara was living in a back skillion of her father's house and Jack was up-country shearing.

  38. There was some joke about Jack being married and settled and steadied down, and me, his old mate, still on the wallaby; and Mrs Thomas said that I ought to follow Jack's example.

  39. I was very giddy and shaky; the girl brought me a whisky-and-soda, and that steadied me.

  40. However, the men of the Dewey, armed with life preservers, steadied themselves on the turtle-back deck of their craft, and started the hunt for swimming Germans.

  41. Down from the rye-fields they saw the horsemen and the footmen come, and only Rupert could have steadied them in this black hour.

  42. York would be relieved and all over, before I steadied you.

  43. With an effort that cost more mental torture than he ever had known, he drew back on his elbow from the pool, steadied himself, turned his head to face his executioner, and confronted Nan Morgan.

  44. He steadied her apprehension and with a few words reminded her, as a riflewoman, what a gamble every shot at a height such as they occupied, and with such a wind, must be.

  45. De Spain, leaping from her back, steadied her trembling and looked underfoot.

  46. The rude noise cleared the air and steadied the intruder as if Music Mountain itself had been lifted off his nerves.

  47. White with consternation and anger, she steadied herself and looked after the fleeing pair.

  48. He stared at her, bewildered, doubtful, then steadied her and groped with his free hand for support.

  49. She steadied herself by laying hold of him uncertainly.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steadied" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.