serene

Example Sentences

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Far from luxuriating in a serene and pristine writing environment, Ms. Lewin reveals, Woolf worked amid “old nibs, bits of string, used matches, rusty paper-clips, crumpled envelopes, broken cigarette-holders, etc.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

At Amarapura's Nagayon Pagoda, a Buddha statue reduced to just two legs and hands on a pedestal has been fully restored, looking out with a serene gaze.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

The larger of the two homes, a serene retreat built in 1955, offers four bedrooms and five baths across 3,645 square feet.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026

His progress in Melbourne - a Slam at which he had never gone beyond the quarter-finals before - was serene.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

Maddie did not answer, and after half an hour of flying over the serene, smooth, silver and black eternity of the English Channel, Queenie asked suddenly, “What are you worrying about?”

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein