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  • Serenely running off electricity stored in its 16-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack (435 pounds), the Volt can travel 25 to 50 miles per charge (depending on weather, terrain and driving behavior) using the electric traction motor and generator, which does double-duty as traction motor.

    Chevrolet Volt: A Win for the Home Team Dan Neil 2010

  • Serenely afloat, legs apart, scooting across the pond with goggle eyes above the surface and mouth set in a benign, contented expression, they have the elegance of a bather enjoying a leisurely dip on a sunny day.

    Country Diary: Durham city 2011

  • Wieck Serenely running off electricity stored in its 16-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack (435 pounds), the Volt can travel 25 to 50 miles per charge (depending on weather, terrain and driving behavior) using the electric traction motor and generator, which does double-duty as traction motor.

    Chevrolet Volt: A Win for the Home Team 2010

  • Serenely, she glided down the last flight — a well-shaped head of dark brown locks atop a pair of broad shoulders, elegantly clad, came into view in the corridor running alongside the stairs.

    The Ideal Bride Laurens, Stephanie 2004

  • Serenely pointing to a fourth bed, she intimated that it was to be mine; then, having extinguished the candle and substituted for it a night-lamp, she glided through an inner door, which she left ajar — the entrance to her own chamber, a large, well-furnished apartment; as was discernible through the aperture.

    Villette 2003

  • Serenely enough he undertook the task of learning twelve hundred miles of the great changing, shifting river as exactly and as surely by daylight or darkness as one knows the way to his own features.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Serenely, he contemplated the white clouds swirling out of his mouth, before at last he inquired what he could do for his friend.

    Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 2000

  • Serenely, he sank into a stony quietude, indistinguishable from a thousand stones that littered the rubble-strewn edge of the desert.

    The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

  • Serenely, as it has done billions of times before, a lush, tranquil planet winds along its way in placid revolutions around a fifth-magnitude star.

    The Pandora Principle Carolyn Clowes 1990

  • Serenely, as it has done billions of times before, a lush, tranquil planet winds along its way in placid revolutions around a fifth-magnitude star.

    The Pandora Principle Carolyn Clowes 1990

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