How to Use serenity in a Sentence

serenity

noun
  • Stay close to home to obtain a sense of serenity this month.
    Sonja Marie, Essence, 30 June 2020
  • The words that come to mind are peace, serenity and beauty.
    Dallas News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • But Vladimir Putin has also had to learn the serenity prayer.
    Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The leader opened the meeting with the serenity prayer and a moment of silence.
    Sarah Klein, Health.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • From the dinning room table chairs, to the warm blues and creamy whites, the house creates a sense of serenity.
    Hunter Boyce, ajc, 6 June 2022
  • Enjoy more calm and serenity with any of them in your home.
    Chris Hachey, BGR, 20 Apr. 2021
  • There’s the quiet of peace and serenity, and the quiet of repression and shame.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 12 Mar. 2022
  • That’s a lot of money for a treehouse, to be sure, but who can put a price on serenity?
    Megan Barber, Curbed, 11 Dec. 2018
  • The goal was to bring an airy feeling of serenity into the urban core.
    Dee Depass, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
  • The heady and forward-looking serenity is too good to last.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2023
  • May God grant you the strength and serenity to carry on your loved one legacy.
    Washington Post, 29 July 1998
  • The pavers have been installed in the serenity garden and plantings went in last week.
    Erin Sauder, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2017
  • So that serenity would be kind of a surprise to the character as well.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
  • So this has become my serenity, to stand here like this and just look and take a photo.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
  • There was a serenity that everyone was in the same rhythm—and to be less confronted with the stress of that world.
    Sarah Mower, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Someone may be in a rush and could disrupt your peace and serenity.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2021
  • When fixed with a time-stopping gaze, even the world’s largest city can yield moments of serenity.
    Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The bitter bad makes such moments of serenity taste all the sweeter.
    Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
  • In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, buzzing chainsaws interrupt the serenity.
    Susan Montoya Bryan and Brittany Peterson, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The same sky that wrecks your normal can cover you with serenity the next day.
    Amanda Walker, al, 7 Nov. 2020
  • These over-ears and earbuds will add some serenity to your day.
    Adrienne So, Wired, 28 Mar. 2021
  • For more than two decades, time has been ticking on the serenity of the lands on Nevada’s southern tip.
    Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The ultimate goal of the Greek and Roman Stoics was to reach the end of life in a state of gratitude and serenity.
    Tom Bissell, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • Parking can be a pain, but the soothing waves bring serenity.
    Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 31 July 2019
  • The muted colors in these photos add to their serenity and sense of joy.
    Lovia Gyarkye, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2021
  • An easy way of achieving that serenity is to make one big starchy thing, like a pot of risotto, and build your evening around it.
    Eric Kim, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The serenity that the audience may have enjoyed, the backstage crowd did not.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2018
  • And if that brings a little serenity now, that is special.
    The Enquirer, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Peace goes hand-in-hand with things like serenity and kindness.
    Martha Sorren, Woman's Day, 1 June 2022
  • Now a fight is heating up over who should have access to that serenity.
    Ryan Lillis, sacbee, 27 Jan. 2018

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