How To Use Sagely In A Sentence
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Fox anchors Julie Banderas and CNN refugee Bill Hemmer hugged on camera to greet the new year, after which Hemmer, confetti in his hair and in his throat, raspily sang along to "New York, New York" and sagely declared that "There are so many important world events happening all over the globe.
Eric Williams: Right Like Me
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Snaff goggled for a moment into the darkness, then nodded sagely.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Susan nodded sagely as if what I had said was profoundly significant.
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Suttie intercuts this bittersweet tale with scenes from her own romantic history, sagely advising the audience to think twice before making a five-foot tall papier-mache penguin for your loved one.
Edinburgh fringe comedy roundup
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That government governs best that governs least", Americans will nod sagely to each other, or, similarly, "Keep the government's nose out of my business".
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The conference will be chock full with academic jargon and sagely nodding eggheads, but it is all free.
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Agricola by men of experience, that never had any captain more sagely chosen his stations for commodiousness and situation; for that no place of strength founded by him, was ever taken by violence, or abandoned upon articles or despair.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
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That judicious senate, very sagely perpending the reasons of his perplexity, sent him word to summon her personally to compear before him a precise hundred years thereafter, to answer to some interrogatories touching certain points which were not contained in the verbal defence.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Prospective police bike-riders are sagely advised to wear padded shorts "for in-saddle comfort" and reminded to eat and drink enough.
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Asian teachers tried to disavail people of the notion that an acid trip was enlightenment, and we nodded sagely.
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And when he was before the prince, he excused himself so sagely that the prince and his council held him excused, and so he fell again into the prince's love and redeemed out his men by reasonable ransoms; and the chatelain was set to his ransom of ten thousand franks, the which he paid after.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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It's because you're a girl, " a male sales adviser notes sagely. "When they want to shop, they'll approach a girl.
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Remember that the American carmaker responded to the threat of smaller, cheaper, better, more economical foreign cars in the 1970s by taking a long, hard look at its fleet of behemoths, nodding sagely, and then adding spiffier "landau roofs.
Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt
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We're supposed to hear these questions and nod sagely and smugly, concurring that of course the answer to each of these dumb questions is no - and then trot out merrily and buy a car.
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"You don't want to get rusty, " she counseled sagely.
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I agree with Dr. N about using suck-ups as human shields - if she penetrates that line of defense or if you get shoved forth by some misguided prof expecting you to "shmooze" just shove a bunch of cheese cubes in your mouth and chew...nodding sagely from time to time.
Dilemma
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Also they lodged there at their ease, for there was none that troubled them: they made many lodgings of boughs and great herbs and fortified their camp sagely with the marish that was thereby, and their carriages were set at the entry into the marishes and had all their beasts within the marish.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Their companions nodded sagely in agreement as they prattled on.
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Thus reflecting sagely, he kept his eyes on his plate and did justice to the fare; for one cannot scorch from the Cliff House to the Western Addition via the park without being guilty of a healthy appetite.
Chapter II
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I have run out of " wisdom " to sagely impart to my students.