stately

How To Use stately In A Sentence

• The procession moved through the mountain village at a stately pace.
• A horse-drawn tonga keeps stately pace with the latest Mercedes, jostled by cycles and bikes.
• There seemed to my perverted sense a certain poetic justice about the fact that money, gained honestly but prosaically, in groceries or gas, should go to regild an ancient blazon or prop up the crumbling walls of some stately palace abroad. Worldly Ways and Byways
• Around 140 luxury homes are being built around the course as part of a deal to save one of Ireland's great stately homes from dereliction.
• asked the Countess, as a stately chaconne swirled up from ground level. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
• King opts for slower tempos than expected, illuminating every stately arpeggio in the opening instrumental prelude until the explosive entry of the voices.
• His tattered clothing indicated a traveler and a worker, but his stately manner leaned away from both of those.
• The music was slow and stately, and in the back of the church, the bride appeared.
• They paused a while to let a fleet of barges, packed with city dignitaries, sweep by as stately as swans.
• Under the pleasurable sense of freedom, thanks to the relaxation of the bit, with stately bearing and legs pliantly moving he dashes forward in his pride, in every respect imitating the airs and graces of a horse approaching other horses. On Horsemanship