SANE in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for SANE, such as:

1. It's hard to stay sane under such awful pressure.
2. You will never understand love if you are always sane.
3. At the moment he seemed as sane as any one I ever saw.
4. Renfield had become, to all intents, as sane as he ever was.
5. In the doctor's opinion he was sane at the time of the murder.

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 Meanings and Examples of SANE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sane
 a.  being in a healthy condition; acting rationally; mentally sound
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  That is certainly the sane view; but the queer thing about society is that the people who regard it as an end are those who are in it, and not the critics on the fence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
2  Reason, judgment, renunciation, all the sane daylight forces, were beaten back in the sharp struggle for self-preservation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3  It's not appealing weakness like his, but sane strength that will animate the Gopher Prairies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  She wanted to go on talking, to get this threshed out, to build a sane friendship.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse of this, namely: all my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
6  "She seems to me wonderfully sane," Edna replied.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVII
7  When, however, she had satisfied herself that he was sane upon all subjects except politics, she troubled herself no further about it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
8  That was the nearest approach to independence a man could make "under capitalism," he explained; he would never marry, for no sane man would allow himself to fall in love until after the revolution.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
9  Renfield had become, to all intents, as sane as he ever was.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  At present I am going in my mind from point to point as a mad man, and not a sane one, follows an idea.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  At the moment he seemed as sane as any one I ever saw.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  However, after a while I came away; my friend is just a little too sane at present to make it safe to probe him too deep with questions.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  There was an unusual understanding of himself, which was unlike anything I had ever met with in a lunatic; and he took it for granted that his reasons would prevail with others entirely sane.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
Example Sentence:
1  Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
2  You will never understand love if you are always sane.
3  I don't think a sane person would drive as dangerously as he did.
4  Having that little bit of time to myself is what keeps me sane.
5  In the doctor's opinion he was sane at the time of the murder.
6  By declaring him sane, the jury implied that he had a moral sense.
7  It's hard to stay sane under such awful pressure.