Example sentences for: thusly

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

  • 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).

  • The LAT slugs a story about corruption in Russia thusly: GREASY PALMS ARE RAMPANT IN RUSSIA.

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

  • 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."

  • 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.


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