Sentence examples for solemn commencement from inspiring English sources

The great poets are forever being quoted in earnest and solemn commencement addresses, but this undoubtedly was the first speech ever filigreed with the words of Keats, Coleridge, Frost and Shaq.

That's especially true when it is the anniversary of an occasion as solemn as the commencement of a genocide.

Some graduation ceremonies feature stories of great opportunity by commencement speakers, while others are solemn events where graduating seniors are simply processed out the door toward an uncertain future.

Solemn, indeed.

Rain on Commencement Day?

Gruden looked solemn.

Most were solemn.

The girls looked solemn.

Stearns, however, was solemn.

The atmosphere was solemn.

It was very solemn.