COMELY in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for COMELY, such as:

1. The rain is coming from the west.
2. It's the track of the coming storm.
3. Much joy to you in the up coming year.
4. Phil is coming home for a visit next month.
5. Anne is coming for a visit in March supposedly.

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 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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  She wouldn't have cared, she insisted, if the people had been comely.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  She believed that details could excitingly be altered, but that things-in-general were comely and kind and immutable.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
5  By the Lord, it is no longer than a child's and yet the maidens are tall and comely.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  He thought her comely, almost beautiful, in her shyness, and he took command of the situation himself at once.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
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
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.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
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.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
11  "She was a comely damsel," he said to himself as he opened his snuff-box and took a pinch.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
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.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVIII
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.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In LILY AND THE LION
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.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
15  Her daughter Cunegonde was seventeen years of age, fresh-coloured, comely, plump, and desirable.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In I
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  It's the track of the coming storm.
17  Daylight was dawning; a troop of horses coming from Latium caught sight of the shining helmet of Euryalus and challenged him.
18  She had a constant parade of young men coming to visit her.
19  Anne is coming for a visit in March supposedly.
20  Phil is coming home for a visit next month.
21  I don't want people coming to see me out of a sense of obligation.
22  I love to watch everything coming to life again in the spring.
23  The day of reckoning is coming for the water company directors.
24  The rain is coming from the west.
25  He was unwilling to make a prediction about which books would sell in the coming year.
26  He called her up one day and said that he and his wife were coming to New York.
27  Rich blessings for health and longevity is my special wish for you in the coming year.
28  You scared me out of my mind, coming up behind me suddenly like that.
29  We expect to see further improvement over the coming year.
30  Much joy to you in the up coming year.