In a formal and dignified manner

Usage examples of solemnly.

This libel on our national oath, and this accusation of all our countrymen of being in the daily practice of solemnly asseverating the most enormous falsehood, I fear deserves the notice of a more active Attorney General than that here alluded to.

Here is Ben Jonson: What beckoning ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?

Ben Montoya warns solemnly that Biblical analogies are exclusionary and very often offensive in our increasingly diverse society.

Germany, whose government solemnly vouched for and promised the preservation of and respect for this neutrality only a few weeks ago!

Army commanders shared about the success of an offensive at this time or to question the immorality of attacking Belgium and Holland, whose neutrality and borders the German government had solemnly guaranteed.

They conferred solemnly together, took her pulse, looked at her eyes, held a phial of her water to the light, and concluded that she was of a melancholic disposition, and should take senna and polypody to purge her head, heart and lung of the evil humours, promote mirth, and enliven the habit of the body.

He looked at Prew solemnly as the other pretended to write a note down on his cuff.

Barbarian chieftains, the master-general of Illyricum was elevated, according to ancient custom, on a shield, and solemnly proclaimed king of the Visigoths.

The procurer winked solemnly, swept up his lit lamp, and strode back to the passage.

Solemnly, Hiraga explained as best he could about the shishi and their struggle to eliminate the despotic government--his sincerity obvious-- explaining the greed of Utani and his rapacious taxes, how the Toranaga clans and daimyos possessed all the wealth of the land, the Toranagas most of all, about the corrupt Bakufu, and that the people were starved and powerless.

Yes, Brice Mack reflected solemnly, running his tongue over his teeth, cleansing them of the acrid taste of coffee, Momma sat shivah for Poppa, as he had sat shivah for Momma.

She blinked rapidly, getting the stinging salt water out of her eyes, but nodded solemnly.

The vow might have been taken more solemnly if Ser Tanton had not had one foot in a gravy boat when he made it.

Iris went dancing, with Lyle Johnson or Jeff Hoy or Douglas Fry, while Bethel solemnly sat at a table way back, with Doc Keezer and Tertius Tully, and ate hash while they went pretty thoroughly into the topic of comparative box-office receipts during the past sixteen years.

They were waiting for the orders sending them home to safety to return from Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters in Italy, and while they waited they had nothing to do but worry and bite their nails and find their way solemnly to Sergeant Towser several times a day to ask if the order sending them home to safety had come.