Example sentences for: stately

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

  • At the top of a sloping driveway, the stately Edwardian structure that was the original university building presides over the institution’s newer buildings.

  • It stands on a raised platform, its profile stately against the sky.

  • The only difference is that, in Hugo's original writings, the wordy rhymed couplets conjure a feeling of endless verbal ingenuity, advancing majestically at a stately pace--whereas, with the lyricists' committee at Les Mis , everything rushes forward pell-mell, as always in modern Broadway productions, and clichés tread on one another's heels, and you have this feeling of a hidden stage director crying, "Next!

  • The stately pedalo for two won’t go fast, and it’s stable enough for adults to take small children with them.

  • Moving outward from the center, one passes from stately, ornamental 16th-century apartment buildings with shuttered windows, wrought-iron balconies, and brick facades to the Baroque palaces of the Bourbons, and later Neo-classical buildings meant to convey authority.


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