How to use seriousness in a sentence
23 example sentences · noun
Seriousness means the state or quality of being serious. Example: “Because of the seriousness of the injury, the doctor anaesthetises the area before treatment.”
Examples of seriousness by meaning
nounThe state or quality of being serious.
- Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2013
More sentences with seriousness
- Because of the seriousness of the injury, the doctor anaesthetises the area before treatment.From the entry anaesthetises
- Because of the seriousness of the injury, the doctor anaesthetised the area before treatment.From the entry anaesthetised
- Because of the seriousness of the injury the doctor is anaesthetising the area before treatment.From the entry anaesthetising
- It was only when I heard the police sirens that the seriousness of what I had done came home to me.From the entry come home
- “The seriousness of respondent’s uncontroverted misconduct cannot be overstated,” the court wrote.2021 June 24, Jim Mustian, “New York court suspends Rudy Giuliani's law license”, in AP News. From the entry uncontroverted
- “What up fool?” Lil Slim said noticing the seriousness in Lil Kilo’s voice.2018, Keith L. Bell, Drought Season Over: The Sequel, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN. From the entry fool
- The evidence on the seriousness of the risks from inaction or delayed action is now overwhelming.2007 November 29, Alison Benjamin, “Stern: Climate change a 'market failure'”, in The Guardian. From the entry market failure
- Everybody was into high seriousness, so that now even dogs were named Humphrey and Raphael.1989, Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, Random House., →ISBN, page 67. From the entry steven
- I laughed at the quaint message; but Holmes showed unwonted seriousness.1914 September – 1915 May, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Epilogue”, in The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry]…. From the entry epistle
- Prime Minister Johnson adopted an unfamiliar tone of seriousness.2023, Adam Tooze, Shutdown How COVID Shook The World's Economy, Penguin Books, page 81. From the entry braggadocio
- The scholarly seriousness has amused some Bondophiles.2007 January 19, Elaine Sciolino, “The French Know Where 007 Acquired His Savoir-Faire”, in New York Times. From the entry Bondophile
- It seems to Nina that neither Rouia nor Gasha has the proper revolutionary seriousness, despite their red neckkerchiefs.2005, Myriam Chapman, Why She Married Him, New York, N.Y.: Other Press, →ISBN, page 179. From the entry neckkerchief
- Have you ever noticed that you can practically see men thinking at a business conference, pachydermic with seriousness?1936, Daniel W. Josselyn, Why be Tired?, page 33. From the entry pachydermic
- She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page…. From the entry jovial
- The “polios” (as they called themselves) in Warm Springs didn't deny the seriousness of their health issues or the impairments to their physiology.2008, Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, George Weisz, Healing the World's Children, page 141. From the entry polio
- Mayor Rosenbaum: Considering the seriousness of the situation—hehe, not to mention my impending reelection campaign—I'm setting up a task force to deal with the gnome-nappings.1999, Mona the Vampire, "There's No Place Like Gnome" (season 1, episode 4b). From the entry gnome-napping
- Of course, the 'just deserts' retributionary approach does not mean the punishment should be exactly like the crime; it means that there should be equivalencies of seriousness of punishment.2004, Ian Marsh, John Cochrane, Gaynor Melville, Criminal Justice: An Introduction to Philosophies, Theories and Practice, Routledge…. From the entry retributionary
- Coming to an end thus becomes an interminable and inconsistent process, a process Kant gives the rather silly name "Abderitism" in order to capture its lack of seriousness.1994, Timothy Burns, After History?: Francis Fukuyama and His Critics, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 222. From the entry abderitism
- Without words and almost with the seriousness of asylum nurses they at once set upon an unsavoury-looking matron who began to cry out Mediterranean vocables of distress.1974, Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament. From the entry vocable
- In order to turn the minds of hilarious guests to seriousness, they would start singing a responsive song, the subject of which was death and the earnestness of life.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 98. From the entry hilarious
- Unlike the latter, however, Shifu's seriousness allowed no compromise; his criticism of Zhang ji even brought him into conflict with Wu Zhihui, one of the doyens of anarchism in China.1991, Arif Dirlik, Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution, page 129. From the entry doyen
- Either they never learn how to work, or, having learned, they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.1929, Calvin Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, →OCLC, page 171. From the entry capacity
Meaning of seriousness
- noun The state or quality of being serious.
Questions about seriousness in a sentence
- How do you use seriousness in a sentence?
- Seriousness is used as a noun. For example: “Because of the seriousness of the injury, the doctor anaesthetises the area before treatment.”
- What is a short sentence with seriousness?
- “The scholarly seriousness has amused some Bondophiles.”
- What does seriousness mean?
- Seriousness means the state or quality of being serious.
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