Example sentences for: wholly

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

  • To wholly relate how that happens--the plot involves a missionary New Jersey cardinal (George Carlin), the devil, and two fallen, somewhat insane angels (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck)--would not only ruin the surprise, it would ruin this review, since there are nearly as many convolutions in the narrative as there are in Scripture.

  • 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 .

  • Victorian fashion, for example, wholly redeemed, is often treated with great respect in movies such as The Portrait of a Lady . The high hair and big bustles have been assimilated to all the other harmless customs of antiquity; they've become the equivalent of Egyptian breastplates and Elizabethan padding.

  • OK, here's something wholly new: the Beavis and Butt-headification of society at every stratum.

  • But mightn't a columnist offer sentiments wholly opposed to Anna Q's and seem to his/her readers the paragon of homespun good sense?


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