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How to use sedately in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sedately? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
I will have to continue to ride sedately until I am clear of the drunks, bus-rushers and blind Blackberry blatherers.
I took a deep breath, turned on my turn-signal, made an easy right turn, and sedately left the neighborhood.
The audience sat sedately to start with, expecting a traditional folk dance.
The cars drift sedately along for an hour and a half, passing through green tunnels of moss-clad trees and misty clouds.
Mary sedately entered the parlour, admonishing her youngest sister's rudeness.
We were trolling along rather sedately down one of those country lanes that probably don't exist anymore when we spotted blue helmets bobbing up and down over the hedgerows.
A line of loaded camels, walking sedately on a track of their own.
It changes gear as sedately as a family saloon when ambling along, but driven aggressively it turns into a different beast.
The young monk folded his robe decorously around him and sedately sat on the ground.
But in looking at these methodically arranged and sedately framed photo works, it is easy to forget that he started out as an aficionado of truly transgressive imagery.
I managed to do the dishes before I sedately walked to the bath.
Life in the country's south-west glides along rather sedately.
But above all, it should stop using its freight customers to subsidise passenger fares. Many changes designed to meet these challenges are chugging along sedately.
Examples from Classical Literature
On my head I place a sedately feathered bonnet, which would not have misbecome mother.
The effect of my vehemence was to brace him and make him sedately emphatic.
One or two motor parties had come out, dined sedately and wined moderately, and had gone back to the city again.
Children were playing on sidewalks and doorsteps, sedately but happily.
We proceeded sedately, my companion muttered with rage, and I was able to resume my thinking.
Evgenie himself behaved rather more sedately than usual, probably out of respect to the dignitary.
Elisha was fifth in line, walking sedately, as was his habit.
The French governess marched primly and sedately behind them.
Stonor added a postscript to his letter, and sedately folded it.
When in the evening he came home from work he got off a streetcar and walked sedately along behind some business man, striving to look very substantial and important.
Sedately Betty walked downstairs, but just then Doris sat down at the piano and began a gay, jazzy tune.
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