Definitions
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- adjective In a state of complete and thorough
satisfaction . - adjective
quelled of thirst or hunger. - verb Simple past of
sate .
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Examples
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The people who badly need to buy the essentials for survival don’t have the money and the people who have the money are sated from a Gilded Age and are stuffing everything under the mattress for the oncoming Depression they Superrich caused.
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One wag dubbed the sated swine “The Grateful Pigs.”
Beyond the Bottom Line Joel Makower 1994
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One wag dubbed the sated swine “The Grateful Pigs.”
Beyond the Bottom Line Joel Makower 1994
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After I book our passage, I find they have nothin 'aboard to eat except canned salmon, it bein' the end of a two years 'cruise, so when I land in the States after seventeen days of a fish diet, I am what you might call sated with canned grub, and have added salmon to the list of things concernin' which
The Spoilers Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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: And through her powers, she permitted him a glimpse of a little of what had been done to Van, a glimpse that suddenly made Van's speech about being "sated" and "little white mares" understandable.
Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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: And through her powers, she permitted him a glimpse of a little of what had been done to Van, a glimpse that suddenly made Van's speech about being "sated" and "little white mares" understandable.
Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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For fifteen or twenty years, Germany was, as Bismarck said, "sated"; but with the coming of the youthful, pushful, self-assertive Kaiser, her aggressive instincts re-awakened and she fell to brooding over the idea that her incomparable physical and spiritual energies were cabin'd, cribb'd, confined.
Gems (?) of German Thought William Archer 1890
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It's as if they're so acutely aware of the experience, their senses are sated long before their physical hunger is.
Lisa Turner: Don't Let Shame Be Your Dinner Date Lisa Turner 2011
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It's as if they're so acutely aware of the experience, their senses are sated long before their physical hunger is.
Lisa Turner: Don't Let Shame Be Your Dinner Date Lisa Turner 2011
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It's as if they're so acutely aware of the experience, their senses are sated long before their physical hunger is.
Lisa Turner: Don't Let Shame Be Your Dinner Date Lisa Turner 2011
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