12 sentences with 'serious'
Example sentences and phrases with the word serious and other words derived from it.
• « They both became serious when I mentioned the results of the AEP test, and kept exchanging glances as they watched the ultrasound image of my prostate, which they also examined. »
• « Although it is a serious condition, the chances of survival are very high when it is discovered early, as in my case." »
• « The first serious suggestion that the Model T would perhaps benefit from some modifications had been made when the car was only four years old. »
• « No less serious are the consequences of cocaine use, which, in addition to being a local anaesthetic, increases vivacity and produces euphoria, but in the long run deteriorates the nasal passages, leading to malnutrition and paranoid states. »
• « Even more serious is the dreaded foetal alcohol syndrome, reported in 1973 by US scientists Jones and Smith, which affects one in 700 newborns in the US. »
• « Drugs - and all those described are drugs - pose a very serious threat not only because of their physiological effects: the psychological dependence, the panic of personality disintegration that is supposed to follow their lack, are time bombs almost as massive as the Hiroshima bomb. »
• « It is a serious mistake to think that the practice of sports and gymnastics are activities that are performed only as a way to promote personal aesthetics. »