stately

Example Sentences

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Looming over the colorless town is its hulking circa-1385 monastery, extended in convent courtyards and stately chapels with lofty naves, offering dazzling displays of stained glass.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Someone dies, and then their friends and family, appropriately dressed in black, gather in a stately room while an elderly lawyer reads a list of who gets what.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

From there she strikes out into the countryside in a suitably stately carriage.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

"A lot of stately homes will have that system," says Niki Johnson, fire systems technical adviser for the UK Fire Association, a trade body, and owner of fire detection firm Derventio Fire and Security.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

Meanwhile, the train is slowing to a stop; Baltimore’s Penn Station—less grand than Union Station but still stately and cavernous—has come into view.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse