SERENITY in a Sentence

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The evening had that serenity which overwhelms the troubles of man beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy.

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 Meanings and Examples of SERENITY
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serenity
 n.  calmness of mind; quietness; stillness; peace
Classic Sentence: (122 in 9 pages)
1  They did not know which was most worthy of admiration, his pallor or his serenity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
2  The almost violent serenity of the funereal moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
3  One overflows with serenity, with gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING
4  But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which transfigured her in her sleep.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HA...
5  There was in the depth of his glance an indescribable melancholy serenity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
6  He saw enough of the sky there to enable him to preserve his serenity, and Cosette enough to remain happy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
7  He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS
8  The evening had that serenity which overwhelms the troubles of man beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF
9  Cosette's serenity was fully restored.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS
10  As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in the formidable serenity of the shadows.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
11  Still, Father Mabeuf had not entirely lost his childlike serenity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
12  Javert, with his back to the post, and so surrounded with ropes that he could not make a movement, raised his head with the intrepid serenity of the man who has never lied.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES
13  It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
14  Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, had regained possession of his sense of security.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
15  There was so much serenity, coolness, mildness even, in the voice of the young man, that Milady felt reassured.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 49 FATALITY
Example Sentence:
1  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.
2  At one point, we veered off the beach, onto a golf course, where the serenity is almost overwhelming.
3  She sauntered onto the set, looking serenely confident.
4  She has a lovely serene face.
5  She wanted Phoebe's long bold stare, so different from Rachel's serene regard-more dangerous, more challenging.
6  The storms that once characterized their relationship seem to have abated, perhaps leading to an unusually serene last summit in Paris.