Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sane
IPA transcription: [s'eɪn]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: sane
    Meaning: mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; "appears to be completely sane"
Usage examples
  • Setting all the sane traditions at defiance
  • "He's evil, I think, yet he's strong and sane."
  • This morning he was as sane, as lucid as I hope I am now.
  • Nothing very dreadful, really, to a sane man; but just now, as we don't know you--"
  • There is in successful operation in Switzerland a wise and sane divorce law, based upon common sense and not upon superstition.
  • Yet not unfaithful nor unkind, with work-day virtues surely staid, Theirs is the sane and humble mind, And dull affections undismayed.
  • I always thought him sane enough until today, but you can take it from me that either he or I ought to be in a straitjacket. What's the matter with me, anyhow?
  • The agent watched the workings of his candidate's dark clear-cut face. He was very proud of his candidate, and found it difficult to realize that there were presumably sane people who would not vote for him on sight.
  • Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old, Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother, Chair'd in the adamant of Time.
  • He was not only exceedingly fond of the water, as was to be expected, but passionately devoted to gunpowder in every form, for he loved firearms and fairly reveled in the Fourth of July celebrations--the latter being rather hazardous occasions, as the children strongly objected to any "safe and sane" element being injected into them, and had the normal number of close shaves with rockets, Roman candles, and firecrackers.