Example sentences for: lordly

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

  • Van Dine's detective novels of the 1930s might have been mystified by the insertion into the dialogue of its lordly hero expressions like don'tcher know and the anathematized ain't .

  • You might think that Spencer's plummy accent, Hugh Grant-y good looks, and lordly manner--well, he is a lord--would make Britons nostalgic for the good old days.

  • The eye is his.The eye is lordly.

  • My own Lordly throne so carefully hewnOf precious woods & polished by the sweat of men

  • Men of presidential quality tend to be arrogant, with a sense of "entitlement and lordly expectation" (David Remnick, The New Yorker ). The best example of presidential bravura ever: When told of John F. Kennedy's womanizing, Lyndon Johnson responded, "God damn it, I had more women by accident than he ever had by design!"


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