adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
keep calm/awake/sane etc
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I was struggling to keep awake.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
perfectly
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Precious, precocious, pretentious and very much in control, he seems perfectly sane .
■ NOUN
man
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Otherwise sane men were nearly hysterical trying to get rebels to change their minds.
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A less religious or a more sane man than the fanatic would have shut up.
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How could a sane man have returned to such a life, knowing such a fate was likely?
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He called himself Walter, and why, you wonder, would any sane man do that?
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What possible reason could a sane man have for thanking her for an evening that had never happened?
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Compared with most of them, Hess is a decent man , a sane man.
person
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Hey, staying out of Dogpatch is motivation enough for any sane person .
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Consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar.
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So, a sane person protects her butter.
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There are numerous recent cases of character assassination and reputation assault that would discourage any sane person from accepting high government appointment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Exercise keeps me sane . If I didn't exercise, the stress would get to me.
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I don't think any sane person would take his threats seriously.
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It was a relief to hear one sane voice among all the shouting and hysteria.
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Mass transit is the only sane way to get around New York.
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No sane person would accept a high-level job there.
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No sane person would believe such garbage!
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Of course he isn't mad. He's as sane as you or I.
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To his neighbours, Peter appeared perfectly sane .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And quite sane friends of mine, whose opinions I respect over other things, believe in this terrible religion.
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But when I awoke I was sane .
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He was sane in every respect but one, and that was his stratospheric sense of self-importance.
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It is readable, reasonably comprehensive and its recommendations, when I have been able to check them out, seem sane .
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Nobody sane would kidnap a boy just to get back photographs of themselves.
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Their withdrawal, their separatism, was, they said, a sane response to an insane world.
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Who among us is so righteous that a sane society would entrust her with the power to obliterate a city?