sententiously

IPA: sɛntˈɛnʃʌsɫi

Examples of "sententiously" in Sentences

"A dollar means more grub," he remarked sententiously.
"It all comes to dust," Raoul remarked sententiously, sitting down.
“The truth is always best,” he answered sententiously with a wicked gleam in his dark brown eyes.
Fraser rolled out the phrase sententiously, not quite able to hide his delight at the opportunity.
"You said it," Old Tarwater remarked sententiously, tossing the single-tree aside and starting to struggle into his coat.
"Flowers turn to the light!" droned Ismail's voice above sententiously, and turning, he thought he could see red eyes peering over the rock.
Hood and somehow not places like Sidwell, Dalton, St Albans, Crossroads High, etc., then exactly the same set of Elite Narrative Commentators will sententiously ask why government and officialdom ignored all the warning signs.
In times of the most solemn emotion, Hawaiians slipped into Pidgin English, gabbling sententiously, and though they found this lingo more neighborly -- more tragic for its realism -- it just made me smile and say, Oh, cut it out.
For instance, I like the weird-tales fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, I really do, but recognize that many intelligent people find him unreadable — sententiously overwrought and cheesy, a purveyor of altogether too much eldritch ichor.