Example sentences for: wholly

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

  • In fact, there is a weird and wholly accidental consistency in these policies.

  • The inhabitants of my own home county of Suffolk used to be noted for pronouncing the word wholly to rhyme with bully , just as Elizabeth I would have done, while everyone else rhymed it with holy .

  • Even today, traditional Muslim women wear a long straight dress with high neck and long sleeves, and a folded head cloth that wholly hides the forehead and hair, the ears, neck, and bust.

  • Neither would I be understood, when I speak of impropriety of language, either wholly to accuse the last age, or to excuse the present, and least of all myself.

  • Bruno Doesseker is the real name of a Swiss author known to the world as Binjamin Wilkomirski, a Latvian Jewish concentration camp survivor and memoirist who is now accused of having wholly fabricated his harrowing tale of toddlerhood in the camps.


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