SERENE in a Sentence

Learn SERENE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

128 example sentences for SERENE, such as:

1. She has a lovely serene face.
2. I can laugh now and be serene.
3. She sauntered onto the set, looking serenely confident.
4. In the sky a fiery plain sloped down to a serene harbor.
5. The cloud of serene ignorance submerges them in unhappiness and futility.

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serene
 a.  calm, peaceful, and untroubled; completely clear and fine
Classic Sentence: (122 in 9 pages)
1  Yet the serene half-light over Tara's well-kept acres brought a measure of quiet to her disturbed mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  It was the sight of her mother's serene face upturned to the throne of God and His saints and angels, praying for blessings on those whom she loved.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  She suddenly felt that this was where she belonged, not in serene and quiet old cities, flat beside yellow waters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Her face was deathly white but her eyes, sunken and black circled, were serene.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  Now it was morning and the world was still and serene and green and gold with dappled sunshine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Melanie turned to her and on her face was the first expression of naked emotion Scarlett had ever seen in those serene eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  They were the eyes of a happy woman, a woman around whom storms might blow without ever ruffling the serene core of her being.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  Melanie's small parlor looked as serene as it usually did on nights when Frank and Ashley were away and the women gathered together to sew.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
9  Melanie looked tired and there were tears glistening on her lashes but her face was serene again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
10  For all its brightness the house was very still, not with the serene stillness of sleep but with a watchful, tired silence that was faintly ominous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
11  The cloud of serene ignorance submerges them in unhappiness and futility.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  She looked at him once, recklessly, and walked away with a serene gait that was a disordered flight.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
13  I can laugh now and be serene.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  In the sky a fiery plain sloped down to a serene harbor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
15  For now I liked nothing better than to have Queequeg smoking by me, even in bed, because he seemed to be full of such serene household joy then.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
Example Sentence:
1  She has a lovely serene face.
2  She wanted Phoebe's long bold stare, so different from Rachel's serene regard-more dangerous, more challenging.
3  The storms that once characterized their relationship seem to have abated, perhaps leading to an unusually serene last summit in Paris.
4  She sauntered onto the set, looking serenely confident.
5  Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, and the eager.
6  At one point, we veered off the beach, onto a golf course, where the serenity is almost overwhelming.