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
This survey was undertaken during what now seems to have been a relatively serene period in the last 18 months.
From MarketWatch • 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
Katherine Ryan couldn’t look any more serene sitting in the dark with her laptop open, white noise machine humming and an infant sleeping in her arms.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026
The catastrophe in the sky was distant, slow, even serene.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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