Example Sentences

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We don't see, you know, the sereneness of her birth.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2022

From behind his broad wooden desk flanked by the American and Texas flags, he radiated a kind of smug sereneness.

From New York Times • May 4, 2021

But channeling his new coach’s sereneness, Anthony said, “I’ll be all right.”

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2016

When he did look at her again, her face was calm almost to sereneness.

From The Daughter of Anderson Crow by McCutcheon, George Barr

This thing that is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white vapours among mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like mine.

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Melville, Herman