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Example sentences for: lordly
How can you use “lordly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
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.
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 .
The eye is his.The eye is lordly.
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!"
In the mid 14th century, it was sirly `like a sir,' or `lordly, haughty, imperious, arrogant, supercilious.