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stately

[stayt-lee] / ˈsteɪt li /


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Autumn leaves bring pops of colour to its stately buildings, which are set against the backdrop of the rolling hills of upstate New York.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

In addition to seven bedrooms and 20 bathrooms, the stately interiors include multiple dining rooms, lounges and a walnut-paneled library.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Steps lead down into the spacious living area, where some of the apartment’s most striking prewar features take center stage, including regal archways, a stately fireplace, and a row of arched leaded-glass windows.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

It has a twangy guitar, stately woodwinds and a loping groove that makes you feel like you’re nudging a herd of cattle through a mountain pass on a cloudless day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Nearly an hour later, I found myself at the doorstep of a stately two-story brownstone.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Frenzied Afro-Cuban dancing mixes with statelier Mexican danzón; one set piece is illuminated by a flashing neon sign, and another puts Mercedes and her sister in a museum, surrounded by pre-Columbian artifacts.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2019

In a statelier time and series, Cyrus would have been played by Jeremy Irons, but here the honor goes to Jake Maskall, who does what he can.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2015

The statelier English verse occupies its space comfortably.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2012

He put them on the runway at the Jeu de Paume — a contemporary art museum and one of this city’s statelier locations for a fashion show.

From Washington Post

If the stream of his genius flowed in gentle rivulets, it traveled as far and spread its fruitful influence as wide as many a statelier river.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner

It supplanted some of the city’s stateliest mansions with corporate palaces in blue glass and bronze.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2020

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, called the result “the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018

Indian Village is an historic development just to the west of the neighborhood, and it includes some of the largest, stateliest residences in the city.

From BusinessWeek ● Sep. 2, 2014

“The monument is appalling—in bad taste and in a very strategic position,” on Mexico City's stateliest avenue, near statues of Gandhi and Winston Churchill.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2013

He used to say, “The Horatian alcaic is, perhaps, the stateliest metre except the Virgilian hexameter at its best.”

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various




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