BATE in a Sentence

Learn BATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

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.

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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.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
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.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
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.