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Example sentences for: solemn

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"The most solemn responsibility given the president is the role of commander in chief," he declared Monday.
doff this habit, shame to your estate, eye-sore to our solemn festival.
The Senate consensus, achieved after a meeting in the solemn Old Senate Chamber that was used regularly in pre-Civil War days, spawned a Senate-as-Club article in the WP and similar scene-setting articles elsewhere.
The NYT says that the day's solemn mood was "somewhat tarnished" by reports that Clinton planned an all-out drive to help Democrats win back the House.
Naturally, the Library of America edition also contains, hidden here and there in impossible-to-find locations, a number of solemn and stirring documents of state--for instance, the reply, genuinely dear to my own multiculturally American Jewish heart, that Washington made, as president, to a letter from the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, R.I.