stately

Example Sentences

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Someone dies, and then their friends and family, appropriately dressed in black, gather in a stately room while an elderly lawyer reads a list of who gets what.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

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

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Queen Annes can be found all over the city—the south side’s Hyde Park, the north side’s Logan Square—as can stately greystones, made of Bedford limestone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

"A lot of stately homes will have that system," says Niki Johnson, fire systems technical adviser for the UK Fire Association, a trade body, and owner of fire detection firm Derventio Fire and Security.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

The Earth, the meeting agreed, was a mosaic of interconnected segments whose various stately jostlings accounted for much of the planet’s surface behavior.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson