“New Year in the cities is now a slightly more staid affair as fireworks are banned.”

“My younger sister, Wilhelmine, was of a calm, staid disposition. She had inherited her father's understanding and sense of rectitude.”

“He no longer wears the staid attire of a marquis, but appears as the real Fra Diavolo in the garb of the chief of bandits.”

“But an apology is due the staider reader for the seeming levity of this narrative adventure.”

“All the way down to the beach she kept the three of us in such a shout of laughter that staider people glanced aside at us.”

“The applause along the banks was certainly continuous enough to make someone older and staider than Winona happy.”

“The annual Man Booker Prize banquet is the staidest of affairs, but occasionally it is jolted out of its late-night black-tie somnolence.”

“The least troublesome, the most self-effacing, staidest girl of them all.”