Sentence examples for serious from high-quality English sources.

• I happen to be serious about Bunburying. 

• This report suggests ministers aren’t just failing to tackle serious crime, they barely understand it.

• Parody or satire are comical ways of looking at serious information, often through imitation, exaggeration or irony.

• Police also deployed water cannons, teargas grenades, bean bag rounds and other weapons, causing serious injuries to protesters.

• “Frankly, aspects of Saudi Arabia’s behaviour are cause for serious, serious concern.”

• Blinken also used the meeting to stress the importance of global cooperation, stating international order was in "serious jeopardy."

• So both “funny” and “serious” now both mean “funny-and-serious, what can appear as both funny and serious”.

• The risk of causing serious prejudice is highest when the proceedings involve a lay jury, for example, in serious criminal cases.

Use serious in a sentence.

• This similarity between non-serious and serious language and actions calls for ways that participants can distinguish between the two.

• This is one of the most serious problems with, one of the most serious problems with this administration is they talk about a doctrine of preemption.

• Amateurs, hobbyists, and serious volunteers often find rest and relaxation in various casual interests, which they seek between sessions of serious activity.

• There is now serious concern that Trump — or someone more organized and dangerous — could return to the White House in the future, putting the alliance in serious jeopardy.

• "We got a serious problem in New York, we have a serious problem in New Orleans, and we're going to be developing serious problems in other areas," Fauci said.

• The holidays cry out for serious food for serious consumption by serious eaters - all in the name of a serious banishing of chic solemnity from our midst.

• To make hires, the founders had to rely on personal contacts for people who already knew they were “serious people and serious scientists and had a serious plan”, as Hassabis puts it.

• With so many serious problems facing the country, Klain said, the current White House is the most serious he’s ever seen, with a serious President and a serious set of advisers in place.

serious sentence examples

• The guidelines gave some concrete examples of serious situations where disclosing private health data to police would be in the public interest, such as to assist with investigations into murder, abduction, sexual assault, child molestation, serious drug offences and major fraud.

• "If a company knew that climate posed serious risks but nonetheless sought to convince large numbers of consumers and investors that those risks were overstated, I think that is a serious matter for investigation," Carroll Muffett from the Centre for International Environmental Law.

• At the same time, serious artisanal producers in Beaujolais have in the last 20 years done the same as serious artisanal producers everywhere else: they have vastly improved the quality and consistency of their wines, building on a greater understanding of viticulture and winemaking.

• that are known to have a gene, chromosome, or mitochondrion abnormality involving a significant risk that a person with the abnormality will have or develop: (a) a serious physical or mental disability, (b) a serious illness, or (c) and other serious medical condition.