How to Use ceremonious in a Sentence

ceremonious

adjective

• She read the announcement in a very ceremonious way.
• Then, with a ceremonious flair, my dad pushed the shim rock into place.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2021
• But this isn't true: the Electoral Count Act of 1887 limits the vice president's role to a ceremonious one, making sure the votes are opened and read out.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Aug. 2023
• The master of ceremonious Eros is, for once, hanging out with random guys.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• Zimmer said, surprised by the ceremonious end to his ride.
  — Daniel Petty, The Denver Post, 17 June 2017
• Thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, a cat, a bird, and a snake met ceremonious yet unfortunate ends.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 20 Aug. 2020
• Route 66's storied life, slow death and ceremonious revival are the three events etched deepest into the timeline of this 90-year-old barber.
  — Mark Johanson, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
• Jersey Shore won its first Carpenter Cup since 2014, and, after a ceremonious ending, the all-star team broke up.
  — Jake Lourim, Philly.com, 24 June 2017
• So, consider this is a homecoming for Hawkings, or at least a ceremonious closing of the loop as his name rises to top billing.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 28 July 2023
• His hasty exit from the White House upset a number of staffers in the building, who described him as a loyal aide who deserved a more ceremonious departure.
  — courant.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• There was something ceremonious about drinking that SlimFast, like putting on war paint.
  — Ottessa Moshfegh, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• Obviously, this is a heroic moment for Kanye, and a ceremonious moment of closure for Kim, who, at one point, picks up the computer’s mouse and then sets it back down.
  — Vogue, 29 Apr. 2022
• An elegant, ceremonious man, Karzai urged green tea on me and spoke about poetry.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Seniors drove three-wide around the track before ultimately crossing the finish line as a ceremonious end to their high-school careers.
  — azcentral, 16 May 2020
• As the aggrieved dyer’s wife prepares to go to bed alone, the three baritone watchmen are heard in ceremonious unison enjoining husbands and wives to love each other, entrusting them with the seed of new life.
  — Larry Wolff, The New York Review of Books, 13 June 2019
• One of the opera’s most haunting moments, at the conclusion of the first act, is when a trio of nightwatchmen is heard enjoining in ceremonious unison husbands and wives to love each other, entrusting them with the seed of new life.
  — The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2019
• By the end of the day on Saturday, Dobrik — who also did a ceremonious ribbon cutting outside the restaurant — posted a thank you to fans on his Instagram story.
  — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2022
• Birmingham has a city manager form of government, with the mayor holding a mostly ceremonious role and serving as the chair of the City Commission.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 10 Nov. 2020
• Consider this race to be the current MX-5’s ceremonious send-off as the next iteration arrives.
  — Alexander George, WIRED, 19 June 2014
• There was a ceremonious atmosphere at the club's cavernous new home, but Malaga, stubborn and resolute, were determined to spoil the party.
  — SI.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• In recent days, Flood and the broadcast’s lead commentator, Leigh Diffey, began discussing how to lead into something that was, and still is, supposed to be so ceremonious, when large swaths of the country are protesting in the streets.
  — Nathan Brown, Indianapolis Star, 5 June 2020
• The ceremonious confection has, after all, been a tradition for millennia: its roots trace back to ancient Rome, where grooms would break a barley cake over their bride’s head to officialize their union.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 25 July 2022
• Trading in bulky knits and fleece bottoms for something light and airy feels almost ceremonious right now, and few silhouettes combine the easygoing nature of a house dress with the casual elegance of a button-down just so.
  — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2021
• There were ceremonious press conferences to announce the mergers.
  — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• The Wheel of Fortune crew celebrated White's career milestone while filming Tuesday, even getting her a cake for the ceremonious occasion.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2022
• Upon play resuming the striker was greeted with a handshake and a ceremonious yellow card from the referee...rules are rules regardless of such a record apparently.
  — SI.com, 27 Jan. 2018
• And so there were two transitions — the public and the private, the ceremonious and the suspicious, the one that treated Trump as the legitimate president-elect and the one that was interrogating his relationship with Russia.
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2017
• Service, while overeager at times, avoids both the harried anxiety of cheaper Indian restaurants and the ceremonious pretension of more expensive ones.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2017
• Mr. Temer, 75, a button-down career politician whose demeanor is so cryptically ceremonious that his rivals liken him to a butler in a horror movie, was apparently inspired by an array of themes.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 18 July 2016
• Rihanna's Fenty Beauty has been making waves since its ceremonious launch, drawing praise for its cool products, attention to detail, and inclusive shade range.
  — Sarah Wu, Teen Vogue, 12 Sep. 2017

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