Example sentences for: seriousness

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

  • The government's attorneys stressed the seriousness of the crimes, and put forward evidence of Yousef 's technical ingenuity.

  • The indicators of timely follow-up after hospitalization (diagnosis-specific care) were selected based on the seriousness of the medical conditions; [ 18 ] the time interval between hospital discharge and outpatient visit were determined by a panel of physicians.

  • The novel "reminds us that even in our own day, it remains, as Henry James said, a complex fate to be an American," says Malcolm Bradbury in the New York Times Book Review . In the New York Review of Books , Gabriele Annan says Johnson's contribution to the innocents-abroad novel is her spirit of lighthearted seriousness: Le Divorce "takes desertion, suicide, and murder in its stride, as though they were merely obligatory literary devices."

  • Realizing the seriousness of the problem helped motivate me to join with individuals like you who have helped to prevent needless suffering in our community by contributing to United Way of Central Indiana.

  • In brief, Portilla’s definition states, “In summary, relajo can be defined as the suspension of seriousness that rejects a value maintained by a group of people” (25).


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