Sample Sentences for

sage

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

You can read her sage relationship advice at her blog.

Some call Warren Buffett the "Sage of Omaha".

If you have any sage words of feminine advice.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

And no one, especially not the idiotic sages around here, is capable of understanding us, since we're more sensitive and much more advanced in our thinking than any of them ever suspect!  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

"She didn't want us showing off," said Ron sagely.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

I take a deep breath as I soak in even more sage advice from her.  (source) Colleen Hoover, Slammed, 2012

Vivienne, on the other hand, had a sager aura about her and I couldn't help but feel some sort of reverence toward her.†  (source) Bella Forrest, A Shade of Vampire, 2012

And well do they deserve such honorable estimation; for the maxims of wisdom and virtue which fall from their lips come from as deep a spiritual source, and tend to as lofty a religious aim, as those of the sagest philosophers of old.†  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Celestial Railroad, 1843

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth; that its love and prosy sageness, so important a few years ago, so gladly offered now, are rejected with laughter.†  (source) Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, 1920

That's the teaching of our sages.  (source) Elie Wiesel, Night, 1960

"Nice-lookin' bruise you got there, kid." I touched my cheek gingerly. "Really?" Two-Bit nodded sagely. "Nice cut, too."  (source) S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967

Bibwit bowed to the blue caterpillar-that oracle of oracles, sage of sages, wisest of the wise-sitting curled in a corner of the garden, puffing on his hookah while a gwynook-a small creature with a penguin's body and an old man's wrinkled face-waddled about on his back.  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

Dean Sager, a former staff economist for the U.S. House of Representatives' Small Business Committee, has called Subway the "worst" franchise in America.†  (source) Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, 2001

Sage has an earthy, minty flavor with light piney and citrus notes.  (source) Potter, Beatrix, The Original Peter Rabbit Books

He has a distinct smell—sweet and fresh, like sage and lemongrass.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

Surrounded by chollas, bur sage, and the comical scurrying of collared lizards, McCandless pitched his tent in the puny shade of a tamarisk and basked in his newfound freedom.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Sea-foam green and sage, that's what you should look for, classic and feminine.  (source) Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak, 1999

I'd mash the beans with roasted garlic and sage and serve them on toasted rounds of homemade sourdough bread.  (source) Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, 2009

The bushes, and the long grasses, between the boulders, the patches of rabbit-cropped turf, the thyme and the sage and the marjoram, and the yellow rockroses all vanished, and they found themselves at the top of a wide steep slope of fallen stones, the remains of a landslide.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937

Yet every one had had enough, and the youngest Cratchits in particular, were steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows!  (source) Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1843

They're puffing and sweating by the time they break out of the sage into our bald yard.  (source) Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1962

...a great variety of herb and root odors were almost hidden by the smell of mountain sage and something as ordinary as curry powder.  (source) Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, 1977

The heavy smell of sage slipped down the hill.  (source) John Steinbeck, The Red Pony, 1945

You're supposed to use sage to clear out negative energy before you use sweet grass.  (source) P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast, Marked, 2007

A horseman showed dark on the sky-line, then merged into the color of the sage.  (source) Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage, 1912

"Only the artist knows," Daddy says with a sage nod.†  (source) Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, 2014