Both Uses of
sedate
in
Atlas Shrugged
- She stared at him, bewildered, and he walked away, tossing the flowers like a ball in his hand-a broad, straight figure in a sedate, expensive, businessman's overcoat, going off into the distance against the straight cliffs of office buildings with the spring sun sparkling on their windows.†
Chpt 1.10
- Francisco worked in a copper foundry, John worked in a railroad roundhouse, and Ragnar-no, Miss Taggart, Ragnar was not the least, but the most studiously sedate of the threehe worked as clerk in the university library.†
Chpt 3.2 *
Definition:
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(sedate as in: sedate her) make calm or drowsy by giving a drug