sate

Preposition: of

affair: What a sorry sate of affairs - no doubt it is just as bad in England and Wales.

Object

• appetite: Suitable vessels will be provided by the host to sate the appetites of most Kindred.
• demand: In fact, there are few better examples of how our whims as consumers can lead to such energy-intensive efforts to sate demand.
• fan: Slightly washed out but good enough to sate the many fans of the movie.
• sauce: Serve immediately with a sate sauce or extra soy sauce.
• desire: The young, the old and the infirm are all liable to be sacrificed to sate the murderous desires of the Ant.
• mind: I walked home along the seafront to Hove afterward, hunger sated, mind relaxed, intending to return before too long.

Modifying Another Word

• not: In fact, his appetite for heavy run scoring is clearly not sated.
• there: Two o'clock came; and they still sate there with closed doors.
• never: The enemy is never tired, never sated, never content with yesterday's brutality.
• n't: If your appetite for discussion still is n't sated you could join the British poetry email list.
• completely: As it was, the helpings are generous, and by the time I'd finished, I was completely sated.
• fully: Nearly 120 items on the menu ensure that, whatever your tastes, you'll be fully sated.

Followed by an intransitive particle

down: She took her work and sate down very quiet and silent.