Example sentences for: homely

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

  • Griffiths, who played a free spirit in Muriel's Wedding (1994) and the simpy Hilary du Pré in last year's Hilary and Jackie , has a large nose and receding chin and looks quite homely from one or two angles.

  • There are realities, homely details, and gorgeous originalities alongside the more sentimental visions.

  • As a junior editor at Vanity Fair , Clare started an affair with the managing editor, Donald Freeman, who was brainy, homely, and enthralled by her.

  • His similes--there is at least one per page--are either trimmed for historical plausibility (like the thieves Romishly at prayer) or, more frequently, made to involve an animal, the idea perhaps being that in simpler times, a homely, rustic simile would have come to mind.

  • Harvard government professor Michael Sandel puts some NYT op-ed space to good use today with some useful homely examples suggesting what's wrong with the emissions credit system the U.S. is advocating as a significant element in its greenhouse gas control approach.


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