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Ernest


Definition:

  • (n.) See Earnest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
  • (2) Ernest Owusu, 23, sports engineering graduate, from London Ernest Owusu Photograph: Alicia Canter "This is my sixth Glastonbury, I love it here.
  • (3) Ernest Greene of Washed Out was one of its earliest practitioners, releasing his first EP, 2009's High Times , on to customised cassette.
  • (4) The eldest of three siblings whose father worked for the Inland Revenue, James left school at 16 to work in a tax office herself, and in 1941 married Ernest White, of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • (5) Noel Ernest Edmonds (@NoelEdmonds) A simple box that slows ageing, reduces pain, lifts depression and stress and tackles cancer .
  • (6) He had travelled to Spain with Ernest Hemingway and found his communist beliefs challenged by the murderous behaviour of some communist elements associated with the republican side in the civil war.
  • (7) On August 15, 1991, the Association of Medical Illustrators bestowed its highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award, on Ernest W. Beck.
  • (8) Another co-author, John Hemingway, is the grandson of Ernest Hemingway , who shone a spotlight on the San Fermín festival in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.
  • (9) Many are young foreigners, drawn to an event made famous by Ernest Hemingway in his 1926 book The Sun Also Rises.
  • (10) Her treatment prompted retaliatory action against US diplomats in India that culminated in Washington cancelling a planned trip by its energy secretary, Ernest Moniz.
  • (11) Ernest Hemingway is the key performer in this charade, his characterisation of Stein as “a woman who isn’t a woman” a crude mirroring of his own gender fears.
  • (12) I think the deterrent has kept the peace for half a century and hope we can have that debate in the party.” He also hopes to persuade Corbyn of the merits of Nato, saying he believed the military alliance had kept the peace in western Europe for more than 50 years and had been invented by a great Labour politician, Ernest Bevin.
  • (13) Photograph: Courtesy of Warner Bros Picture Best makeup and hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa The Lone Ranger Winner: Dallas Buyers Club Best animated feature: The Croods Despicable Me 2 Ernest and Celestine Frozen The Wind Rises Winner: Frozen Best animated short: Feral Get a Horse!
  • (14) He was a Labour MP under Attlee, an admirer of Mrs Ernest Simpson.
  • (15) Songs helped shape popular moods: Richard Thompson’s Blackleg Miner highlighted the plight of colliery workers, while Song of the Lower Classes by the chartist poet MP Ernest Jones drew on rousing works such as Shelley’s Mask of Anarchy .
  • (16) • Ronald Ernest Dearing, civil servant, born 27 July 1930; died 19 February 2009
  • (17) Symptoms of Ernest's syndrome, in decreasing order of occurrence, are: TMJ and temporal pain, ear and mandibular pain, posterior tooth sensitivity, eye pain, and throat pain.
  • (18) Later I also began reading short stories by famous novelists – F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and more contemporary writers such as John O’Hara, Irwin Shaw, Carson McCullers, John Cheever and others.
  • (19) It dressed Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earheart and Katharine Hepburn, sold guns to Ernest Hemingway and blazers to JFK.
  • (20) In his New Year’s Day address, the president of Sierra Leone , Ernest Bai Koroma, said schools would reopen soon, although it is unlikely that this will be on a national level.

Solemn


Definition:

  • (a.) Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.
  • (a.) Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal.
  • (a.) Stately; ceremonious; grand.
  • (a.) Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness.
  • (a.) Real; earnest; downright.
  • (a.) Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.
  • (a.) Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) wearefriendlyfires.com Ceremoniously slow and with a mood of solemn self-satisfaction and reflective pride, the most I can say about this is every note of it is archetypal national anthem fodder.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest China dismisses Trump call with Taiwan as ‘small trick’ However, Beijing’s public response has so far been measured, with the foreign ministry lodging a “solemn representation” with Washington and the foreign minister, Wang Yi, downplaying the development as “a petty move” by Taiwan.
  • (3) Holocaust survivors and government officials have gathered at the memorial site of the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany , in a solemn ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the camp 70 years ago.
  • (4) In Kentucky , county clerks issue marriage licenses, and someone else must “solemnize” the marriage.
  • (5) Referring to the 70th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in what Beijing calls “the Chinese people’s war of resistance against Japanese aggression”, Hua said: “We solemnly urge the Japanese side to draw hard lessons from history.” Satellite images Chinese-built runway artificial island finished Read more China is planning a large-scale military parade to mark the end of the second world war in the Pacific.
  • (6) Reality, fantasy and war Call of Duty has never been a series to offer solemn commentary on the nature of war.
  • (7) Still, I like to believe that these small-scale ventures, too, make some contribution to a conversation without limits or proscriptions; the sine qua non of the sort of society that knows to keep the solemn and the pious at bay.
  • (8) He brings us his mackerel, and his marigolds, as a child just able to walk solemnly brings objects … a birdcage, or a colander … and deposits them as an offering before the attentive adult."
  • (9) Holding a Qur’an and looking solemn, Barrow was sworn in at the Gambian embassy in Dakar, where he has spent the past few days, and delivered his inaugural speech as president.
  • (10) It solemnly proclaimed Ireland's independence, appointed ambassadors to the Peace Conference, where they have not yet been bidden, passed an address to the free nations of the world, and made some pretence of framing orders for its domestic procedure.
  • (11) In short, these solemn written principles of engagement had not been agreed, written, or signed by anyone at the point Crosby was engaged by the Conservative party.
  • (12) 'No,' he said with his usual solemn deliberation, 'it was the downfall of a great people and a great civilisation.'
  • (13) He also produced this effect in some of his sculptures, for example Untitled (Funerary Box for a Lime Green Python) (1954), where a pair of solemn-looking palm leaves gives the work a consciously ritualistic tone.
  • (14) Right up until Sunday's first-round vote, the frenetic Sarkozy, known as the "president of bling" was apologising for what he called his lack of solemnity at the start of his presidency.
  • (15) Pistorius had solemnly entered the court wearing a grey suit and blue tie.
  • (16) Nato’s security guarantee is treaty commitment and all allies have made ... a solemn commitment to defend each other.
  • (17) Rakoff nodded in solemn agreement, although she had no idea who this Jerry person was.
  • (18) More arrived every minute, until, when an ambulance left carrying the bodies of Liu and Ramos, they formed a vast and silent honour guard, saluting solemnly in the flashing lights.
  • (19) In return, we give them a solemn pledge: that we shall keep their role secret.
  • (20) But the apology was delivered with enough solemnity to win some credit.

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