solemnity
Example Sentences
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Ali Della Bitta’s clay-and-mixed-media pieces, shown by Artist Estate Studio, are dazzling assemblages that tread the line between delicacy and solidity, playfulness and solemnity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
Unfortunately, the jokes are far outweighed by the solemnity.
From Slate • Jun. 12, 2025
The solemnity echoing the national mood as flags fly at half-mast.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025
Some were passed along by longtime Angelenos with the solemnity of handing down a family heirloom.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2024
Evening fell, as it falls always on the entertainments of man, foretelling the solemnity of night and end.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" 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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