Example sentences for: holly

How can you use “holly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Then up popped a descendant of Edmund Halley, the man who discovered the comet; he said the family pronounces its name to rhyme with holly, brolly (as in umbrella), Good Golly, Miss Molly . I consulted a dictionary (about 40 years too late), and it sided with the TV announcers.

  • In Indiana, similarly, "there isn't really any particular restriction on what you can buy with your money . . .as long as you spend the money," said Christopher Holly, a paralegal with Indian Legal Services' Bloomington office.

  • Courtney B. Vance shows up as an officious homicide detective from a nearby city who finds Holly Springs' lazy informality irritating, but none of the women wants to answer his queries: They want to flirt with him, and he can't help falling into their easy rhythms.

  • The best explanation for the name Beatles can be traced directly to the music that influenced Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Sutcliffe at the time and to their music idol, Buddy Holly.

  • The opening is teasingly misleading, as if to make you think you're seeing The Gingerbread Man II : In Holly Springs, a small, Mississippi cotton town, Willis Richland (Charles S. Dutton) staggers out of a blues joint semi-drunk, then drops his bottle of bourbon when a police car glides ominously past.


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