Example sentences for: thusly

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

  • The NYT profile of San Francisco Examiner executive editor Phil Bronstein quotes his wife Sharon Stone thusly: "He's big enough for me.

  • Fucktruck a van or car in which people engage in sexual activity had been mentioned in the introduction as being Australian (where it has been used since the 1960s), a statement rejected by numerous correspondents who testified to their activities in thusly named vehicles in the U.S. of A.; two people noted that the word was also used for a bus on which one can meet prospective sexual partners (both, curiously, referring to a shuttle between Wellesley College and the Harvard and M.I.T. campuses).

  • Whereas Chatterbox seems to share the blissfully indifferent sensibilities of the Polynesian islander Queequeg, celebrated thusly by Herman Melville in Moby Dick : "Savages are strange beings; at times you do not know exactly how to take them.

  • Bob Dornan, R-Calif., who went down in grudging defeat last fall, described his military career thusly in a 1994 House speech: "I went into the Air Force and volunteered for whatever dangerous assignment there was."

  • In its editorial advocating that the DOJ and FBI abandon their current policy against the use of computer encryption technology the feds are not at least indirectly privy to, the NYT explains President Clinton's failure to oppose this law enforcement stance thusly: "[S]ince Attorney General Janet Reno has protected Mr. Clinton from an independent counsel on campaign finance, the White House is said to be loath to oppose either her or Louis Freeh, the F.B.I.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast