COMELY in a Sentence
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420 example sentences for COMELY, such as:
1. You go ahead and tell him that I'm coming.
2. We perceived a little girl coming toward us.
3. He eyed the coming tide with an absorbed attention.
4. The irate animal made for us, coming at a full jump.
5. If you haven't heard by Friday, assume I'm not coming.
2. We perceived a little girl coming toward us.
3. He eyed the coming tide with an absorbed attention.
4. The irate animal made for us, coming at a full jump.
5. If you haven't heard by Friday, assume I'm not coming.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of COMELY
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comely
a. pleasing or attractive to the eye; handsome; graceful
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The dozen young ladies with whom the house was furnished were comely, if brightly painted, and comported themselves more quietly than those of other houses.
2 She wouldn't have cared, she insisted, if the people had been comely.
3 She believed that details could excitingly be altered, but that things-in-general were comely and kind and immutable.
4 For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.
5 By the Lord, it is no longer than a child's and yet the maidens are tall and comely.
6 She is captive unto those men of Belial, and they will wreak their cruelty upon her, sparing neither for her youth nor her comely favour.
7 He thought her comely, almost beautiful, in her shyness, and he took command of the situation himself at once.
8 He is not a very quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, sound at heart.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
Context Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
9 He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about his shoulder, and left his room looking like an immortal god.
10 He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about his shoulders, and left his room looking like an immortal god.
11 "She was a comely damsel," he said to himself as he opened his snuff-box and took a pinch.
12 A comely, fresh-looking old man was conducting the service with that mild solemnity which has so elevating and soothing an effect on the souls of the worshipers.
13 There they found their child, now grown up to be comely and fair; and after all their troubles they lived happily together to the end of their days.
14 As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there.
15 Her daughter Cunegonde was seventeen years of age, fresh-coloured, comely, plump, and desirable.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 I would rather have a poor and comely wife than a rich and homely one.
2 You go ahead and tell him that I'm coming.
3 She'll be coming tonight, although I don't know exactly when.
4 The irate animal made for us, coming at a full jump.
5 Let's assume they're coming and make plans on that basis.
6 If you haven't heard by Friday, assume I'm not coming.
7 He eyed the coming tide with an absorbed attention.
8 Drivers coming in the opposite direction swerved to avoid the bodies.
9 The things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
10 The smoke signals from the central bank suggest further cuts are coming.
11 The leather of his left trainer was coming away from its rubber base.
12 Life, always coming up with and leave, miss is not a fault, I have missed, just let go.
13 If you change your mind about coming tonight, just give me a call.
14 The hunter had to feign death when he suddenly found out that a bear was coming toward him.
15 We perceived a little girl coming toward us.