stately

Example Sentences

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He amused himself watching one stately older man examine the underside of the table, find nothing, and leave that night sure “that these rappings were veritable messages from beyond the grave.”

From Literature

Later in the record, on the patient and stately “Instead of Here,” she sings “I’m not here / I’m where nobody can reach,” and she makes isolation sound like a state of bliss.

From The Wall Street Journal

From there she strikes out into the countryside in a suitably stately carriage.

From Barron's

By 8 a.m., more than a hundred people waited outside the stately South Carolina Supreme Court building to hear oral arguments on Murdaugh’s request for a new trial.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the 1930s, the white matriarchs of tiny Natchez, Miss. — one of the 19th century’s wealthiest American towns thanks to the slavery-driven cotton trade — opened their stately antebellum mansions to save themselves from economic ruin.

From Los Angeles Times