Example sentences for: worldly

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

  • Like the lead guitarist of the erstwhile Dire Straits, Amis is a stolid, middle-class New Briton blessed with considerable chops, torn between worldly cynicism and a certain nostalgie de la boue , whose wish to get down and dirty is undertaken professionally but stops a bit short of conviction.

  • Julianne Moore is especially raw: Her whitish, faintly freckled complexion affords her no protection from the elements, worldly or otherwise.

  • Southerners pinned the label on both the opportunistic and idealistic Northerners who packed their worldly possessions into "carpetbags" during Reconstruction and moved to Dixie to enter politics.

  • Our car is laboring under the load of all my worldly possessions and can't go very fast, even under favorable weather conditions.

  • The world didn't need a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), an enjoyable piece of romantic fluff in which worldly millionaire thief Steve McQueen matched wits with brittle insurance investigator Faye Dunaway.


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