Example sentences for: stately

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

  • 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.

  • More stately is the reconstructed Ephraimpalais, Poststraße 16, a rococo mansion built for Friedrich II’s financier Veitel Heine Ephraim in 1765.

  • “Sir Leicester,’ the author quotes from Bleak House , “appears to have a stately liking for the legal repetitions and prolixities as ranging among the national bulwarks.

  • Designed for a daughter of Louis XIV in 1722, it makes a stately riverside façade for the 7th arrondissement, with its 18th-century embassies, ministries, and private mansions (hôtels particuliers).


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