Preposition: on

• surface: Technical Maintenance Your web site is like the proverbial swan, serene on the surface but paddling like mad underneath.

Modifies a noun

• elegance: Nell could hardly believe this was the same young woman she'd always admired for her serene elegance and beauty.

• ambiance: These features create the serene ambiance within the visitor space.

• surroundings: Stay 1 night at the Monastery in serene surroundings.

• beauty: I could feel my whole being getting drawn into the serene, exotic beauty.

• atmosphere: In the serene atmosphere of my earthly paradise I would be safe from all evil.

• lake: When morning comes Alice finds herself floating on the serene lake with sunlight dappled through overhanging trees.

Modifying Another Word

• beautifully: There's a wide range of entertainments for every taste, all within a beautifully serene environment.

• so: You're so calm, dear, and so resolute, so serene!

• quite: I am better now, but not quite serene.

• very: The setting is very serene, with a dramatic view of Uluru.

• almost: It's a weird free feeling to just fly around in an aircraft almost serene.

• normally: On 17 th April 1984, a hail of gunfire echoed around the prestigious and normally serene St James's Square in London.

Used with adjective complement

• look: Look, theyâve decked him out in green pjamas; he looks serene No!

• remain: Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow.

• seem: Unscathed by civil strife, war or famine, Zambia's capital city seems as serene as any on the continent.

• feel: It's human nature to strive for your dream but a little bit of giving could make you feel serene.

• stand: Nature The mountain peak stands serene sloping down to valleys where life is teeming.

• become: Somehow, listening to the silence I feel myself becoming serene.