Examples of solemnly

• "I saw things I hope to never see again," she said solemnly.

• He solemnly declares that he has made up his mind to become a priest.

• The opposition leaders solemnly pledged to co-operate with the prime minister.

• Aldermen, vestrymen and the governors of guilds solemnly pledged not to scatter ' secret ' matters abroad.

• I turned on the tape-recorder, and each in turn solemnly counted from 1 to 20, in their best accents.

• The subject is treated solemnly, but it shocks despite the effort to avoid a sensationalist approach to the material.

• It solemnly asked the president to ' assume all responsibility on behalf of the state ' and recommended the establishment of a ' government of national unity ' and a truth and reconciliation commission.

• If not, is not this provision, being entered into solemnly in advance, likely to put some people into limbo, being ultimately stateless persons?

• It is now almost inconceivable that we shall solemnly pass the proposals.

• The idea that 16 nations can solemnly consider the possibility of using battlefield nuclear systems when the conflict is raging around them is somewhat unrealistic.

• The report reads very solemnly en the question of ice accretion.

• Once again it is unnecessary to go through the farce, year after year, of solemnly suspending that provision, and therefore we propose its abolition.

• He will not find people solemnly declaring that they are not willing to help their country.

• At paragraph 22, of course (and this again shows where the pressure comes from) are recited the obligations which he has solemnly taker.

• Every signatory solemnly renounces war as an instrument of national policy.

• We have solemnly pledged ourselves that we in this country believe that.

• I have paraphrased, but that was in fact what was said; and they said it quite solemnly and without their tongue in their cheek.

• At that time, it was thought that the register should be kept in a book solemnly and laboriously written up.