solemnity
Example Sentences
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"I now recognize that this could affect the integrity and solemnity of the proceedings," Judge Thornhill wrote in a letter dated 12 November to the Missouri Supreme Court.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025
All this helps relieve the museum’s windowless solemnity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
And why was one child, Alex, played with solemnity by Cary Christopher, left behind?
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025
Unfortunately, the jokes are far outweighed by the solemnity.
From Slate • Jun. 12, 2025
All solemnity, therefore, was silent, the peals muffled; and bodies went unheralded to their final rest; and we shoveled dirt atop the dead and watched their wooden vessels sink beneath the earth without a cry.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing solemnity
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Purple Hibiscus
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"Rules of the Game" (from The Joy Luck Club) by Amy Tan
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