Sentences with steady
stead·y
S s - Despite the steady progress of building work, the campaign against it is still going strong.
- Get as close to the subject as you can and hold the camera steady.
- Steady implies a fixed regularity or constancy, esp. of movement, and an absence of deviation, fluctuation, faltering, etc. [a steady breeze]; even1, often interchangeable with , steady, emphasizes the absence of irregularity or inequality [an even heartbeat]; uniform implies a sameness or likeness of things, parts, events, etc., usually as the result of conformity with a fixed standard [a uniform wage rate]; regular emphasizes the orderliness or symmetry resulting from evenness or uniformity [regular features, attendance, etc.]; equable implies that the quality of evenness or regularity is inherent [an equable temper]
- 'Well, go on,' said Camilla, her voice fairly steady.
- He was firm and steady unlike other men she knew.
- Two men were on the bridge-deck, steadying a ladder. [VERB noun]
- Somehow she steadied herself and murmured, 'Have you got a cigarette?' [VERB pronoun-reflexive]
- 'What if there's another murder?'—'Steady on!'
- The level stayed steady
- A steady drinker
- A steady flow
- Ready, steady, go!
- A steady gaze, a steady diet, a steady rhythm
- A steady customer
- steady nerves
- A steady ladder.
- The steady swing of the pendulum.
- A steady diet of meat and potatoes; a steady wind.
- A steady job.
- steady nerves.
- A steady gaze; a steady hand.
- A steady purpose.
- His calm confidence steadied the nervous passengers.
- Hold the ladder steady.
- Is she working steady now?
- Her father didn't approve of her going steady at such an early age.