SOLEMN in a Sentence
Learn SOLEMN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
230 example sentences for SOLEMN, such as:
1. This hilarity is improper on this solemn day of mourning.
2. Her conduct during the funeral ceremony was staid and solemn.
3. She usually had a smile on her face, but now she looked solemn.
4. A clock struck slowly in the house with a measured, solemn chime.
5. She simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could..
2. Her conduct during the funeral ceremony was staid and solemn.
3. She usually had a smile on her face, but now she looked solemn.
4. A clock struck slowly in the house with a measured, solemn chime.
5. She simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could..
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Meanings and Examples of SOLEMN
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solemn
a. characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions
a. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 There were dozens of war weddings in the County and there was little time for the sorrow of parting, for everyone was too busy and excited for either solemn thoughts or tears.
2 Behind her and her husband were the four Tarleton girls, their red locks indecorous notes in the solemn occasion, their russet eyes still looking like the eyes of vital young animals, spirited and dangerous.
3 He rose and went abruptly to the window and stood with his back to her, watching the solemn single file of ducks parade across the barnyard.
4 Her expensive frock of beaver-colored satin with rows, plasters, and pendants of solemn brown beads was intended for a woman twice her size.
5 He flipped into bed with a solemn back-somersault and a ludicrous kick of his heels as he tucked his legs under the blankets.
6 She was at Sunday morning service at the Baptist Church, in a solemn row with her husband, Hugh, Uncle Whittier, Aunt Bessie.
7 As spectators there assembled one youthful grocery clerk, stopping his Ford delivery wagon to stare from the seat, and one solemn small boy, tugging a smaller sister who had a careless nose.
8 She saw Main Street in the dusty prairie sunset, a line of frontier shanties with solemn lonely people waiting for her, solemn and lonely as an old man who has outlived his friends.
9 Before that time, she knew, a hundred generations of Carols will aspire and go down in tragedy devoid of palls and solemn chanting, the humdrum inevitable tragedy of struggle against inertia.
10 But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish prophet of the wharves.
11 'This is the priest, he brings you the Evangelists, said Don Sebastian, gravely, returning with a tall and solemn figure.
12 Sometimes these tufts impart a rather brigandish expression to his otherwise solemn countenance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
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13 Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart.
14 I felt the old pull of the earth, the solemn magic that comes out of those fields at nightfall.
15 Outside the circle of light in which she sat, the large dining-room looked solemn and shadowy.
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 The world leaders celebrated the year 2000 with a solemn pledge to reduce poverty and hunger by 2015.
2 Finally, his expression solemn, he replied, You are a complex woman, Annabel, despite the fact that you sometimes behave like an impulsive child.
3 Unfortunately, Tony and Tina have disparate notions of marriage: Tony sees it as a carefree extended love affair, while Tina sees it as a solemn commitment to build a family and a home.
4 This hilarity is improper on this solemn day of mourning.
5 A clock struck slowly in the house with a measured, solemn chime.
6 Her conduct during the funeral ceremony was staid and solemn.
7 The congregation being fully assembled, now, the bell rang once more, to warn laggards and stragglers, and then a solemn hush fell upon the church which was only broken by the tittering and whispering of the choir in the gallery.
8 "The secret of your birth! Do you mean to say - " "Gentlemen," says the young man, very solemn, "I will reveal it to you, for I feel I may have confidence in you."
9 She simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could..
10 On this solemn day, the congregation responded to the prayers of the priest during the litany with fervor and intensity.
11 She usually had a smile on her face, but now she looked solemn.
12 All members had to swear a solemn oath never to reveal the secrets of the organization.
13 It had been a solemn and impressive ceremony and, whatever my uncertainties, I felt bound to respond.
14 'In that case,' said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, 'I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies--' .
15 Miss Ingram rose solemnly: "I go first," she said, in a tone which might have befitted the leader of a forlorn hope, mounting a breach in the van of his men.