COURTLY in a Sentence
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417 example sentences for COURTLY, such as:
1. You must seek redress in the law courts.
2. Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
3. The courts determine questions of guilt and innocence.
4. A nominal charge is made for use of the tennis courts.
5. Took her hand, bending down he kissed it in courtly fashion.
2. Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
3. The courts determine questions of guilt and innocence.
4. A nominal charge is made for use of the tennis courts.
5. Took her hand, bending down he kissed it in courtly fashion.
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Meanings and Examples of COURTLY
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courtly
a. refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 In appearance he was a man of exceedingly aristocratic type, thin, high-nosed, and large-eyed, with languid and yet courtly manners.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
2 There we found Mr. James Wilder, demure and courtly, but with some trace of that wild terror of the night before still lurking in his furtive eyes and in his twitching features.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
3 As they abased themselves before him, Mr. Micawber took a seat, and waved his hand in his most courtly manner.
4 When Kennicott came home at five he tried to be courtly, as befits the husband of one who has afternoon tea.
5 De Beausset bowed low, with that courtly French bow which only the old retainers of the Bourbons knew how to make, and approached him, presenting an envelope.
6 Only go on, and betake thee hence to the courts of the queen.
7 Scarcely had I spoken thus; suddenly all seemed to shake, all the courts and laurels of the god, the whole hill to be stirred round about, and the cauldron to moan in the opening sanctuary.
8 Nay, he it was who besought and enjoined me to seek thy grace and draw nigh thy courts.
9 From Jove hath our race beginning; in Jove the men of Dardania rejoice as ancestor; our King himself of Jove's supreme race, Aeneas of Troy, hath sent us to thy courts.
10 In this confidence I sent no embassy, I framed no crafty overtures; myself I have presented mine own person, and come a suppliant to thy courts.
11 Rumour flies suddenly, spreading over the little town, that they ride in haste to the courts of the Tyrrhene king.
12 So he sends imperial summons to his high council, the foremost of his people, and gathers them within his lofty courts.
13 The courts don't make their final conclusions public, not even the judges are allowed to know about them, so that all we know about these earlier cases are just legends.
14 And I don't suppose they ever take on cases that haven't already got past the lower courts.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context Highlight In Chapter Eight Block, the businessman - Dismissing the law...
Context Highlight In Chapter Eight Block, the businessman - Dismissing the law...
15 Sun-blinds, and sprinklings of water, a little cooled the main streets and the shops; but the mills, and the courts and alleys, baked at a fierce heat.
Example Sentence: (207 in 14 pages)
1 Took her hand, bending down he kissed it in courtly fashion.
2 The approach taken by US courts has been more progressive than that in Britain.
3 They are currently facing a long legal battle in the US courts.
4 A nominal charge is made for use of the tennis courts.
5 Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
6 They intended to challenge the legality of his claim in the courts.
7 He will take up his post as the head of the civil courts at the end of next month.
8 It is the business of the police to prevent and detect crime and of the law courts to punish crime.
9 The test of benefit of a class leaves the courts considerable discretion as to how to define the class.
10 The courts determine questions of guilt and innocence.
11 The courts struck down local segregation laws because they violated the federal constitution.
12 Federal courts have a certain cachet which state courts lack.
13 Persistent criminals who have gone unpunished by the courts have been dealt with by local people.
14 He tried to prevent union money from being sequestrated by the courts.
15 You must seek redress in the law courts.