How to Use solemnity in a Sentence

solemnity

noun
  • Her voice conveyed the solemnity of the passage.
  • The visiting statesman was welcomed with appropriate solemnity.
  • Elaborate solemnities marked the 100th anniversary of the event.
  • To that point, Lent is not all solemnity.
    — ABC News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • This new solemnity, tinged with a new kind of glamour, had been earned.
    — Sheila Weller, Vanities, 2 Mar. 2017
  • Here was an earnest man who wanted to protect the solemnity of the subject, fans felt.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • There was a solemnity to his voice that was hard to reconcile with the laughing man of years ago.
    — Alix Ohlin, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
  • But that doesn’t mean there weren’t moments of levity in all that solemnity.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • But the director brings the right solemnity to his script, which in less able hands might have grown ridiculous.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Some project solemnity and trustworthiness, the way banks seemed way back when.
    — Dg Fulford, Woman's Day, 21 June 2010
  • Their naïveté mixed with Schrader’s stodgy solemnity is a buzzkill.
    — Armond White, National Review, 25 Dec. 2024
  • This is a tragic event and is being treated with great care and solemnity on the part of the command.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Once the excitement of the funeral was over, the girls took in the solemnity of their loss.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The handwritten names on the walls and the dark solemnity of the room are efficient.
    — Simon Njami, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2024
  • As often as not, the snap is an undercut, slicing off solemnity at the knees.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The solemnity of the occasion was reflected in teary eyes in the whole group.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • But solemnity is the guiding light here, and solemnity doesn’t suit the Guardians.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2023
  • There is something interesting that happens in the kill rooms where there is an air of solemnity about it.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
  • There were plenty of moments of silliness to go along with the solemnity in Tuesday’s show.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Fallon sings with a mixture of awe and solemnity that fits a retelling of the Christian savior’s birth.
    — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The issue before the president should not have been fashion or venue, but solemnity.
    — Kenneth Zagacki, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2026
  • But Hurts mostly prefers to embody a persona that rarely wavers from solemnity.
    — Brooks Kubena, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • After the depressing solemnity of the last few years and the beige that went along with it, her brightly hued world feels like a welcome break.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2022
  • His solemnity and her contempt converge, with startling force, in the movie’s final moment.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The stirring music echoed off the walls, closing out the day with an uplifting air of formal solemnity.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • This sense of solemnity was shared by Lesley Younge, who had opened the event by invoking the names of the men.
    — Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Still, despite their surface-level solemnity, his films are very often about the cinema as a place of play.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The tone, abetted by the music, is solemn, and the audience is never unaware of that solemnity.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • This is a movie far too pleased with its tricksy structure and a heightened acting style that lurches between archness and solemnity.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Their parents are arriving shortly, and a feeling of solemnity is settling in the teenagers.
    — Vogue, 3 Mar. 2022

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