Example sentences for: solemn

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

  • When it comes to style in jewels, modern chic has followed Chanel, and Chanel refused to be solemn.

  • The mere fact of giving sworn testimony to a court imbues a witness with credibility and weight: She is participating in the measured and solemn business of justice.

  • 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 Net, after all, seems like the last place to fashion an intimate, solemn space, but that intimacy is what even the open-to-the-public Web sites are after.

  • 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.


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