stately
Example Sentences
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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.
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
LONDON—On Monday, as fresh disclosures about ex-Prince Andrew’s dealings with Jeffrey Epstein dominated headlines in Britain, the former duke went for a ride on his horse outside his 30-room stately residence in Windsor.
Most were gray-haired, faces lined with time and learning: they looked stately, implacable.
From Literature
The glitzy Sphere suits Las Vegas; a new football arena along classical lines would befit Washington, which Frederick Douglass praised for “its lofty domes and stately pillars.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
