How to use stately in a sentence

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• A stately dowager entered the ballroom, and all eyes were upon her.From the entry dowager
• Stately old buildings sometimes have punsch-verandas, little glassed-in upstairs porches where people traditionally would imbibe and chat.2018, Rick Steves, Rick Steves Scandinavia, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry punsch
• Less stately advice is also offered: the amla fruit, boiled, is an excellent hair conditioner.2007 August 26, Katherine Russell Rich, “Go Suck on a Topaz”, in New York Times. From the entry amla
• The garden was afoam with starry white cosmos backed by the stately phalanx of the Prince’s Feather.1933, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 32, in Pat of Silver Bush, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. From the entry afoam
• There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC. From the entry luscious
• The motor court was set back from the highway and shaded not by tamaracks but by huge stately elms.2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 116. From the entry tamarack
• Traditionalists will adore the Lanesborough on Hyde Park Corner, with its stately decor, toasted teacakes and clotted cream-laden scones.2012 May 29, Time Out Guides Ltd, Time Out London Top 100, Random House, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry teacake
• Not when you are baiting and switching down from a stately antebellum manse to a tenement crack house.2008, Sarah Bird, How Perfect is That, page 242. From the entry bait and switch
• Scheinman’s solo on the tune was stately but not remote; she packed many shades of melancholy into a few understated phrases.2007 February 3, Nate Chinen, “Kindred Spirits in Groove”, in New York Times. From the entry ragalike
• Beyond lay the stately drab edifices of East Germany’s showpiece, now thronged with würste and sauerkraut sellers catering to the crowds.1995, Robert Harvey, “The Thaw and the Flood”, in The Return of the Strong: The Drift to Global Disorder, London: Macmillan London, →ISBN…. From the entry wurst
• The other ubiquitous anecdote, told by Harvard undergraduates who enjoyed poking gentle fun at the stately and aged Mrs.1990, Judith Roman, Annie Adams Fields: the spirit of Charles Street, page 12. From the entry gazelle in the garden
• I will sing of stately Aphrodite, gold-crowned and beautiful, whose dominion is the walled cities of all sea-set Cyprus.1914, Hesiod, “To Aphrodite”, in Hugh G. Evelyn-White, transl., The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library; 57), Cambridge…. From the entry waft
• This gives to the hall a more massive and stately appearance and makes it a room of original and distinct elegantness.1904 April 7, “Ottawa University”, in S. M. Brown, R. K. Maiden, editors, The Word and Way: A Weekly Baptist Journal, volume 8, number 41…. From the entry elegantness
• They emerge from the car to face a pair of brownstones, stately narrow things, which seem to have been similarly renovated and decorated.2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 203. From the entry brownstone
• She was placid, stately and Juno-esque, soft-toned in her trance utterances, but she could become powerful in her office, an imposing presence.2015, Molly Whittington-Egan, “Preface: Into the Cabinet”, in Mrs Guppy Takes a Flight: A Scandal of Victorian Spiritualism, [Castle…. From the entry rambunctious
• GRANDEST of all the streets in Prospect Park South is Albemarle Road, a broad, esplanaded boulevard of stately neo-Classical, Queen Anne and Colonial style mansions.2008 June 22, Christopher Gray, “Brooklyn’s Stately Esplanade”, in New York Times. From the entry esplanaded
• Two days later I took it to the former manse, a solid grey stately Victorian building with a tall monkey puzzle tree on the lawn.2003, Alasdair Gray, “Miss Kincaid's Autumn”, in Every Short Story, Edinburgh: Canongate, published 2012, page 747. From the entry monkey puzzle
• Rain tambourined on the stately square.1995, Henri Cole, The Look of Things, page 23. From the entry tambourine
• It was played early in the nineteenth century and several boards exist, mainly in museums and also in some of the stately homes of England.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 117. From the entry Pope Joan
• Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 3. From the entry lather
• A butterfly flew into the garden, danced a stately minuet mid-air, courtsied, and settled atilt the top rail of the old “snake fence.”1911, Jennie Brooks, Under Oxford Trees, Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, page 80. From the entry atilt
• Whether it was the stately tinternell or the exuberant jig, dancing was considered a healthy recreation for the mind and exercise for the body during the Elizabethan era.2015, Jodie Gould, High: 6 Principles for Guilt-Free Pleasure and Escape. From the entry tinternell
• To dramatize Norse myths, he created a pseudo-archaic form of German, whose cadences dictated the stately melodic lines, which in turn flowed together into endless scenes.2009 March 26, Justin Davidson, “The Fellowship of ‘The Ring’”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry pseudo-archaic
• The buildings consisted of two iingxande (or rectangular houses) and seven stately rondavels (superior huts), all washed in white lime, dazzling even in the light of the setting sun.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 18. From the entry rondavel
• The keeping eunuchs were at back, solemn in stately rows, bespeared and bescimitared, the Danish, Irish, and German of their countenances lost in the daub which made them swart.1905, Samuel Major Gardenhire, The Silence of Mrs. Harrold - Page 277. From the entry swart
• The meeting followed a week of demonstrations at the stately downtown Canadian National hotel, following announcement last Monday of regulations governing dress in the hotel beer parlor and liquor lounge.1970 June 15, “Still no beer”, in Windsor Star, Canada, retrieved 28 Nov 2013, page 20. From the entry liquor lounge
• They sat about in black and shiny and flouncey clothing adorned with gimp and beads, eating great quantities of cake, drinking much tea in a stately manner and reverberating remarks.1908, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Of Bladesover House, and My Mother; and the Constitution of Society”, in Tono-Bungay […], Toronto, Ont.…. From the entry gimp

Meaning of stately

1. adjective Worthy of respect; dignified, regal.
2. adjective Deliberate, unhurried; dignified.
3. adjective Grand; impressive; imposing.

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Questions about stately in a sentence

How do you use stately in a sentence?

Stately is used as an adjective and adverb. For example: “A stately dowager entered the ballroom, and all eyes were upon her.”

What is a short sentence with stately?

“Rain tambourined on the stately square.”

What does stately mean?

Stately means worthy of respect; dignified, regal.