Example sentences for: wholly

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

  • His broad smile, neither purely romantic nor wholly cynical, tells the story: This is a man who breaks the rules and is attractive, wealthy, and smart enough to get away with it.

  • It is a demanding method, requiring specific skills (such as fluency in the language of the participants) and general self-awareness to maintain the fine balance between seeing things as others see them and identifying their perspective wholly with one's own.

  • For years, the manufacturing company had relied on a wholly owned subsidiary to provide IT products and services.

  • He has adult features and expressions wholly inappropriate to an infant.

  • 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 .


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