ceremonious

Example Sentences

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Now, Gellar has made a more ceremonious return, albeit with a frustrating stop-and-start stammer.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

A plane carrying 59 of them landed at an airport just outside Washington DC earlier this month, in a ceremonious greeting that included the deputy secretary of state.

From BBC • May 24, 2025

During a ceremonious Mass, papal envoy Cardinal Marcello Semeraro read out the Latin formula of the beatification of the Ulma family signed last month by Pope Francis.

From Washington Times • Sep. 10, 2023

“It’s one game, we all understand that. But it’s ceremonious … and that’s a feather in his cap for what he’s done over the last few years to get to this point,” Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2022

That night when I placed the plastic egg filled with cinnamon hearts in the box beside my bed, I did not feel the ceremonious satisfaction I normally did.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri