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How to use solemn in a sentence

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One witnesses the fasting and the solemn rite of baptism, preferably, by immersion in flowing water.
They have given me their solemn pledge, and I hope that they will be able to resist the many temptations around them.
There were no cartographers, no global positioning system, apart from the tramp of human feet in solemn perambulations.
So here we are, in the middle of a solemn, yet frantic, chat-fest of the sort that bowls along after the sudden passage of sad events.
We had been separated from the rest of humanity with solemn and legally binding promises to keep mum.
It's filled with artificial people, with solemn, fake smiles, empty eyes, and briefcases.
The ancient Israelites celebrated the sabbath as a day of solemn rest but as a festive occasion as well.
They gazed on the road with a solemn, placid expression, as of men to whom the Atlantean weight of this weary world was as the down on a feather.
Each scene has the feeling of a solemn ceremony or, at times, an historical tableau.
It was for the solemn task of protecting and sanctifying the ducal resting place that Philip chose the most austere of the religious orders.
On the path a few solitary scraps of withered white and blue police tape were a solemn reminder of the crime scene.
When you go into a courtroom you are doing something very serious and solemn and you are representing more than just the rights of your client.
Two military knights, in uniforms of scarlet swallowtail coats with black arm bands, stood in solemn vigil, guarding the Princess's coffin.
The streetlights and buildings pass me by in a solemn procession winking with fading lights.
In his five years as Treasurer he broke solemn promises, went back on guarantees and cooked the books whenever necessary.
However, with Silvestrov, the feel of the scherzo imbues the adagio so that what was once regarded as solemn is now seen as vacuous and illusory.
The familiar smirk was gone, replaced by a serious, solemn look that she had never seen before.
He looks solemn and serious, but I can remember how he and the other two big boys were holding in laughter.
In particular, why quote the mostly sentimental and sententious lyrics with such solemn respect?
The original hearers of the work were, after all, the congregation present at a solemn liturgy, not the audience at a concert.
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And old Father Murray is just the dearest old man ever was, and hasn't got a long, solemn face like Mr. barebones.
It was the voice of the Indian, who, with outstretched arm, was chaunting a solemn invocation to the spirit of the waters.
She was good-looking enough, in her thinnish, solemn way, but it seemed to me she was kind of overdressed and too grand.
There are days when I could do a hand-spring, if for nothing more than to shock my solemn old Dinky-Dunk out of his dourness.
And thereupon he registered a solemn oath never again to leave her, it mattered not how fared his clientage.
The most solemn of all realities have been degraded into the passwords of technical theology.
He ended the anthem, as he had commenced it, in the midst of a grave and solemn stillness.
It is time, if they are well founded, to give a solemn stamp to their certainty, and legitimize their existence.
In so solemn and chastened a spirit could the artists of the trecento conceive of their Republic's deliverance.
This is a very short and simple entry in Mr. mailer's journal, but it has most solemn significance.
Chemyaka, thus constrained to set the body of his captive free, wished to enchain his soul by the most solemn oaths.
Madame cornu's last letter was a solemn exhortation to abstain from that step.
The tsarevitch immediately returned with the greatest joy in order to thank God and begin to carry out his solemn promise.
We set there as solemn as if parson was preachin' to us on 'lection and predestination.
Dignified documents, state papers, solemn treaties, are often of no more value than the lambskin on which they are engrossed.
The Sun was full of the most solemn matters treated in the most farcical way.
What he says sounds at first like scolding, and then like a solemn curse or conjuration.
By being faithless to our most solemn trust, we could keep the filthy lucre.
Its solemn isolation, its unearthly color, and its flamelike outline fill the mind with astonishment.
Whatever you may be I beg of you not to be a fogy, nor to follow a fogy's solemn advice.
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