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How To Use solemnize In A Sentence

• The purpose of the oath and the bible is just to solemnize the occasion and remind the declarant of his obligation to tell the truth. Matthew Yglesias » Inauguration Trivia
• The protection of the rights of a Jewish wife is so important that the marriage may not be solemnized until the contract has been completed.
• This is a marked fall from 1990 when over half of marriages were solemnised in a religious ceremony.
• The first marriage in South Australia between an Aborigine and a European was solemnised on 27 January 1848.
• Shortly after his accession he solemnized his fateful marriage to Catherine, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain and widow of his brother Arthur.
• I have known him to solemnize his whole audience, a few numskulled negroes alone excepted. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In Engla
• The great feasts were commonly called Dionysia, from one of the names of that god, (58) and were solemnized in the spring within the city. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)
• This ceremony solemnized our hearts
• It is here the kings of Nepal have long been crowned and their coronations solemnized.
• The proportion of marriages solemnised by a religious ceremony has followed a similarly downward trend, falling from 60 percent in 1971 to 41 percent in 1997.