Example sentences for: worldly

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

  • 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.

  • .to my wife Nancy for and during her natural life’-- based on the civil death of a felon and also upon the state of civil death assumed by a monk upon his abnegation of all worldly concerns, but that the phrase as now applied is “outrageously redundant.

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

  • 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.

  • Grisham, it is clear, wants nothing to stand in the way of his central point--that a man who surrenders all his worldly possessions to defend the homeless is a hero.


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