BALMY in a Sentence

Learn BALMY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

11 example sentences for BALMY, such as:

1. I don't want no balmies teaching me.
2. A balmy breeze refreshed us after the sultry blast.
3. Bea basked in the balmy vernal breezes, happy that winter was coming to an end.
4. The verses told only of the night and the balmy breeze and the maiden lustre of the moon.
5. Christmas is the most human and kindly of season,as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

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 Meanings and Examples of BALMY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
balmy
 a.  mild and pleasant; extremely foolish
Classic Sentence:
1  Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind the hills across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  A balmy, soft warmth poured into the room, heavy with velvety smells, redolent of many blossoms, of newly fledged trees and of the moist, freshly turned red earth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  For Ashley, spring was back again, that half- forgotten balmy spring of green rustlings and murmurings, a spring of ease and indolence, careless days when the desires of youth were warm in his body.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  A young man, very pale and worn, was lying upon a sofa near the open window, through which came the rich scent of the garden and the balmy summer air.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
5  The verses told only of the night and the balmy breeze and the maiden lustre of the moon.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  The warm damp balminess of spring encompassed her sweetly with the moist smells of new-plowed earth and all the fresh green things pushing up to the air.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  The shadows were falling thicker now, the last greenish tinge had left the sky and a slight chill was displacing the balminess of spring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  I don't want no balmies teaching me.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
Example Sentence:
1  A balmy breeze refreshed us after the sultry blast.
2  Bea basked in the balmy vernal breezes, happy that winter was coming to an end.
3  Christmas is the most human and kindly of season,as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.