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.

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

  • In return, the local Creoles considered themselves “more worldly” than the rustic Americans.

  • Court life was luxurious, though Islamic scholarship did find a place next to worldly pleasures.

  • 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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