[ US /ˈseɪn/ ]
[ UK /sˈe‍ɪn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. marked by sound judgment
    sane nuclear policy
  2. mentally healthy; free from mental disorder
    appears to be completely sane
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How To Use sane In A Sentence

  • Mum has been a lot more cheerful since Quigley was declared bankrupt, insane and guilty of fraud.
  • With her pupils dilated to blackness, and spitting vituperation in all directions, the very last thing she seems is sane.
  • I've had an insanely busy day here, and I was listening to the latest album but it was just making me kind of listless and spacy.
  • What they have "incentivized" executives to do, in countless cases, is not to perform, but to game the system, to smooth the numbers, to take insane risks with other people's money, to do whatever had to be done to ring the bell and send the dollars coursing their way into the designated bank account. Let's Move Their Cheese
  • For the tumblebug was sincere in his insane doings, and all Philistia honored him sincerely, so that there was nowhere any hope for this people. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
  • He is a slightly possessed, haunted, eccentric man; his enemies prefer to say ' insane '.
  • I will not be there with a £180 ticket to be biffed into kingdom come by some insane person on the end of a weighted rope - or falling off it - but good luck to those who come to brave the 2 chords of U2 at warp volume and other truffles of this cultural feast. Bono and The Edge defend Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
  • What sane person would say no to that? Times, Sunday Times
  • 'Sooner or later the young gadabouts will settle down to a more sane level of sartorial elegance. Times, Sunday Times
  • If at all, the Euro increases trust in sane long term policy just like the EU institutions in general for Italy, thus reducing investment risk which leads to more growth. Matthew Yglesias » What’s the Matter With Italy?
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