solemnize

Example Sentences

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Nine years later, when the United Kingdom allowed same-sex couples to solemnize their marriages in religious ceremonies, Ortega-Medina and his husband married in a Jewish ceremony at West London Synagogue.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2023

Leon P. Hammond, who was designated by the Salt Lake County clerk to solemnize the marriage, led the ceremony, which the couple had postponed in 2020 because of the coronavirus.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2021

North Carolina has attempted to accommodate officials like Davis, allowing some register of deeds workers who assemble marriage licenses and magistrates who solemnize civil marriages to recuse themselves.

From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2015

Questions about how to solemnize Constitution Day sometimes prove far more interesting than Constitution Day itself.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2014

The dramatis personæ were a foot high, and represented a community of p. 43Lamas on their way to solemnize prayer. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis