Sample Sentences for
satiate
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    The vampire satiated her lust for blood.
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    I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.  (source)
    satiate = satisfy
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    He will doubtless seek other means of satiating his dark passion.  (source)
    satiating = satisfying
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    As a waitress in a local restaurant, she was no stranger to making sure customers' appetites were satiated.  (source)
    satiated = filled to satisfaction
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    The traditional vampires were going as far away as possible to satiate their thirst.  (source)
    satiate = indulge their hunger; or fill to satisfaction
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    When he had done, instead of feeling better, calmer, more enlightened by his discourse, I experienced an inexpressible sadness; for it seemed to me — I know not whether equally so to others — that the eloquence to which I had been listening had sprung from a depth where lay turbid dregs of disappointment — where moved troubling impulses of insatiate yearnings and disquieting aspirations.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insatiate means not and reverses the meaning of satiate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    lie stayed quiet until he had a fully formulated response, one that would keep her interest alive without quite satiating it.†  (source)
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    It lulls the Steppenwolf to sleep and satiates him.†  (source)
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    After all the guests have put down their forks and sighed in satiation, they talk with Grandfather, who leans back on a pile of thick white pillows.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Beyond the physical, the basic and apparently unsatiable lust she inspired in him, was a constant fascination.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsatiable means not and reverses the meaning of satiable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    —this man whom Henry first saw riding perhaps through the grove at the University on one of the two horses which he kept there or perhaps crossing the campus on foot in the slightly Frenchified cloak and hat which he wore, or perhaps (I like to think this) presented formally to the man reclining in a flowered, almost feminised gown, in a sunny window in his chambers—this man handsome elegant and even catlike and too old to be where he was, too old not in years but in experience, with some tangible effluvium of knowledge, surfeit: of actions done and satiations plumbed and pleasures exhausted and even forgotten.†  (source)
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    the pageant, the scene, the act, entering upon the stage—the magnolia-faced woman a little plumper now, a woman created of by and for darkness whom the artist Beardsley might have dressed, in a soft flowing gown designed not to infer bereavement or widowhood but to dress some interlude of slumbrous and fatal insatiation, of passionate and inexorable hunger of the flesh, walking beneath a lace parasol and followed by a bright gigantic negress carrying a silk cushion and leading by the hand the little boy whom Beardsley might not only have dressed but drawn—a thin delicate child with a smooth ivory sexless face who, after his mother handed the negress the parasol and took the cushion and knel†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insatiation means not and reverses the meaning of satiation. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Satiated, the dark bird rises and joins a rolling cluster of rain clouds in the northern sky.  (source)
    Satiated = filled to satisfaction (having eaten enough)
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