Sentence examples for solemn area from inspiring English sources
Then he went to the most solemn area of all.
On Saturday night in Brooklyn, solemn quiet hung over the area surrounding Myrtle Avenue and Tompkins Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where a few hours earlier Ismaaiyl Brinsley "assassinated" NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos while they were eating lunch in their squad car before taking his own life.
With the Neo-Byzantine monolith of a church, Cathedral Basilica, and the historic Forest Park, the area still carries a solemn air of authority.
Yet the meltdown of the Daiichi nuclear plant, two years ago tomorrow – not to mention the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that induced it – continue to have solemn ramifications for those who live in the area.
In 1990 the people of Budapest made the decision to uproot these gigantic solemn reminders of the past and put them all in one area outside of the city for people to visit.
Roads around Meskel Square, an open stadium at the center of Addis Ababa's rapidly modernizing metropolitan area, were closed to traffic during the demonstration, giving the city a solemn quiet during what normally would have been morning rush hour.
After a visit to this area with John Muir, President Teddy Roosevelt remarked that being there was like "lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by the hands of man".
According to the New York Times, believers of the theory, peddled primarily by conspiracy enthusiast Ed Chiarini, claim that the solemn day's events were all part of an elaborate government hoax carried out by Tucson-area actors.
A friend who was driving through the Poconos last weekend aimlessly turned on his car radio; tuned in WVPO, in Stroudsburg; heard a solemn voice say, "We now bring you the Obituary of the Day, sponsored by the funeral directors of the area;" instantly snapped off his set; and departed from the area.
