Example sentences for: solemnly

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

  • One can easily see, though, how in some hands this could lead to pandering--the nominal analogue of ticket-balancing ("I, William Jefferson Roosevelt Kennedy Patton Rosa Parks Harvey Milk Sitting Bull Clinton, do solemnly swear ..."

  • Supremely convinced of this point, Brookhiser has gone ahead and brought out his own little edition of Washington's rules under the title Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace , slightly altered to eliminate the 18 th -century idiosyncrasies (a pity) and emended with small commentaries by Brookhiser himself, some of them pertaining to events in Washington's life, others solemnly applying of Washington's rules to circumstances of today.

  • Dreyfus was pardoned in time ¦ for the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900... and his innocence solemnly proclaimed six years later.

  • Newspapers and commentators solemnly observe that this riot of negative ads and name-calling has cost $40 million (roughly $25 million from D'Amato and the Republican Party, the balance from Schumer and the Democrats).

  • He tells the story solemnly, in three parts, with a big-deal cast (Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, John Cusack) and a few other major stars (John Travolta, Woody Harrelson, George Clooney) dropping by for cameos.


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