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How can you use “gravitas” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

They lament the passing of an alleged era when figures of towering prestige and gravitas would swoop in like superheroes when democracy had tied itself in one too many knots.
… The Indian achievement is a combination of lightness and gravitas, of bridging the gap between the highbrow and the middlebrow, and rediscovering for itself the inextricable link between the body, mind and soul."
Meanwhile, on the USAT front Barbara Bush mounts a defense of George W.'s gravitas: "People don't know that he is a very smart history buff and that's what he reads."
Bernard Shaw's got the gravitas and a great magisterial voice, but there's still something too cheesy about the CNN mise-en-scène . Ted Koppel is too in-your-face.
The Ohioan lacks "gravitas" but is passionate, good with people, highly religious, and an outsider--all positives in the election game.