STAID in a Sentence

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25 example sentences for STAID, such as:

1. The museum is trying to get rid of its staid image.
2. Her conduct during the funeral ceremony was staid and solemn.
3. I staid at the camp meeting one day longer than I intended when I left.
4. We staid there three weeks to refresh our crew, many of whom were sick.
5. We sailed with a fair wind to the Cape of Good Hope, where we staid only to take in fresh water.

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 Meanings and Examples of STAID
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
staid
 a.  sober; serious, organized, and professional; characterized by dignity and propriety
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Then the god staid his stream and stilled the waves, making all calm before him, and bringing him safely into the mouth of the river.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
2  Earth-encircling Neptune came, and Mercury the bringer of luck, and King Apollo, but the goddesses staid at home all of them for shame.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VIII
3  They, thinking no evil, followed her, all except Eurylochus, who suspected mischief and staid outside.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK X
4  The others did not suspect any mischief so they followed her into the house, but I staid where I was, for I thought there might be some treachery.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK X
5  Her appearance always acted as a damper to the curiosity raised by her oral oddities: hard-featured and staid, she had no point to which interest could attach.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  There she sat, staid and taciturn-looking, as usual, in her brown stuff gown, her check apron, white handkerchief, and cap.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  This was my bed all the time I staid with those people, though made more convenient by degrees, as I began to learn their language and make my wants known.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II.
8  For the queen, whom I always attended, never went farther when she accompanied the king in his progresses, and there staid till his majesty returned from viewing his frontiers.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.
9  We staid there three weeks to refresh our crew, many of whom were sick.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I.
10  I staid three months in this country, out of perfect obedience to his majesty; who was pleased highly to favour me, and made me very honourable offers.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IX.
11  We sailed with a fair wind to the Cape of Good Hope, where we staid only to take in fresh water.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER XI.
12  A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
13  Such an unwonted bustle was he in that the staid Starbuck, his official superior, quietly resigned to him for the time the sole management of affairs.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
14  The staid, sober, thinking and industrious ones of our number would employ themselves in making corn-brooms, mats, horse-collars, and baskets; and another class of us would spend the time in hunting opossums, hares, and coons.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  I staid at the camp meeting one day longer than I intended when I left.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  Her conduct during the funeral ceremony was staid and solemn.
2  The museum is trying to get rid of its staid image.