BATE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for BATE, such as:
1. Until it was time to open the presents, the children had to bate their curiosity.
2. The men, listening with bated breath, now turned their curious eyes upon the colonel.
3. The Chairman's remarks were so astounding that the audience listened to him with bated breath.
2. The men, listening with bated breath, now turned their curious eyes upon the colonel.
3. The Chairman's remarks were so astounding that the audience listened to him with bated breath.
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Meanings and Examples of BATE
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bate
v. let down; restrain; lessen force or intensity of; moderate
Classic Sentence:
1 The men, listening with bated breath, now turned their curious eyes upon the colonel.
2 With bated breath and crouching figures they stumbled across it, and gained the shelter of the hedge, which they skirted until they came to the gap which opened into the cornfields.
Example Sentence:
1 Until it was time to open the presents, the children had to bate their curiosity.
2 The Chairman's remarks were so astounding that the audience listened to him with bated breath.