Sentence for serious | Use serious in a sentence

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• The matter must indeed be serious! (8)
• She is not serious. (4)
• He was very serious. (9)
• March remained serious. (9)
• This was clearly serious. (10)
• It may not be very serious. (10)
• Adrian immediately became serious. (10)
• But I am serious about this matter. (9)
• You two hate a man at all serious. (10)
• Papa and I have had a serious talk. (10)
• I am perfectly serious in my refusal. (4)
• The situation is still very serious. (10)
• The gentlemen were too serious to sing. (10)
• It was my one serious conflict with Modestine. (2)
• If I were any more serious I should shed tears. (9)
• Miss Rasmith was silent and apparently serious. (9)
• The wound was in the thigh, and nothing serious. (10)
• Bolivar sustained no serious injury in the affray. (21)
• He laughed in retreat from the serious proposition. (9)
• Edward had a fatally serious spirit, and one of some strength. (22)
• He was too serious to note much the laughter of the young men. (10)
• To a military man more than to any other these are serious thoughts. (6)
• In a moment it had come, the first serious dispute of their wedded life. (9)
• Of later years, however, a more serious and exalted style has developed. (3)
• On that very evening Lorm felt the approaching symptoms of serious illness. (12)
• One says those sort of things, of course, without any idea of a serious meaning. (4)
• He was a serious divinity, and so were all the mid-Western human-beings about him. (9)
• Life, since the fall in wages, had begun to appear to them with a more serious air. (2)
• Sir Austin in his mountain solitude was furnished with serious stuff to brood over. (10)
• The case is too serious for her to listen to feelings, and regrets, and objections. (22)
• For that was not serious with the intense present signification the name Aminta had. (10)
• He is lively, you are serious; but so much the better: his spirits will support yours. (4)
• It seemed like the forerunner of something absolutely serious, which she did not wish. (4)
• As she is going to take Father Bernardus with her, it is possible that the wound is serious. (10)
• He by this time was aware of the serious character of the malady which had prostrated Nevil. (10)
• She is a serious person, intellectually at least, and it is a serious story. (9)
• They talked of ancient inroads of the sea, none so serious as this threatened to be for them. (10)
• There was wretchedness in the idea of its being serious; there was perplexity and agitation every way. (4)
• Whatever may have been the reason, the custom was observed with all the gravity of a serious intention. (7)
• O gentlemen, death is a serious matter, and intercourse with the dying is the best school for the priest. (5)
• The men who had smiled at their work smiled no more, but performed it with a serious and feverish activity. (1)
• She delayed, thinking the accident might not be serious; and the information of it to Diana surely would be so. (10)
• The immunity enjoyed by the big advertiser becomes more serious as more kinds of business resort to advertising. (16)
• Not one man at that table, as he reflected, would consider the bond which held him in any serious degree binding. (10)
• He is, if we think of it rightly, a most serious, even tragical figure, and at all events a most respectable figure. (9)
• What made him, in the midst of serious playing, break into some furious or desolate little tune, or drop his violin? (8)
• Captain Risk was killed, but he had inflicted a serious wound in the heat of battle, upon the plotter of the scheme. (18)
• Everything might be possible rather than serious attachment, or serious approbation of it toward her. (4)
• It is but an instance of the way in which a profession growing more serious is bound to take knowledge more seriously. (16)
• In executing his publicity-provoking designs in populous centres there is in him no serious purpose to avoid an arrest. (21)
• Her astonishment and confusion increased; and though still not knowing how to suppose him serious, she could hardly stand. (4)
• But it was not till the evening of the dance at Netherfield that I had any apprehension of his feeling a serious attachment. (4)
• Miss Galbraith looks askance at him, to make out whether he is in earnest or not; he continues, with a perfectly serious air. (9)
• But Bohemianism has gone out of the newspaper world, as the profession has become more specialized, more of a serious business. (16)
• Elizabeth, however, did not choose to take the hint, being well aware that a serious dispute must be the consequence of any reply. (4)
• Each was burdened with serious matter; but they might have struck hands here, had not this petty accidental opposition interposed. (10)
• If it is not rather serious business with them all, still I admire the fortitude with which some of them remain in fifteen minutes. (9)
• His serious air and habitual tone of command fascinated the softness of Berry, and it was not until he had gone that she spoke out. (10)
• But all had felt from the tone in which he spoke these words, how serious was the position in the eyes of that experienced campaigner. (8)
• Our most serious problems, it must be plain, have been solved orgiastically, and to the tune of deafening newspaper urging and clamor. (16)
• Such an event had occurred of old, and had given the house on the beach the serious shaking great Neptune in his wrath alone can give. (10)
• He was, of course, only half-conscious of his pulpitizing; he fancied the serious vein of his thoughts attributable to a tumbled night. (10)
• It would have surprised Anne if Louisa could have readily answered such a speech: words of such interest, spoken with such serious warmth! (4)
• Another entreaty that she would be serious, however, produced the desired effect; and she soon satisfied Jane by her solemn assurances of attachment. (4)
• She greeted him gaily, and speaking with the excitement of the dance upon her, appeared a stranger to the serious emotions he was willing to cherish. (10)
• High in the rank of her most serious and heartfelt felicities, was the reflection that all necessity of concealment from Mr. Knightley would soon be over. (4)
• Shading his eyes by interposing his free hand between them and the candle, he stood looking at his motionless companion with a serious and tranquil regard. (1)
• But no sooner had Mollie departed than very serious matters presented themselves for discussion between Dr. Greydon and his wife about their only daughter. (18)
• The supply of horses diminished rapidly, and in two weeks it was with some difficulty that we accomplished unloading, parade and departure without serious delay. (21)

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Definition of serious:

• serious, s’ri-us, adj. solemn: in earnest: important: attended with danger: weighty: professedly religious. | adjs. s’rio-com’ic, -al, partly serious and partly comical. | adv. s’riously, gravely, deeply: without levity. | n. s’riousness. (0)

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