Example sentences for: worldly

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

  • Rather, kids today are not only little bundles of joy but also are perhaps the ultimate symbols of worldly success and status.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Worldly in his heart, he was also not averse to the Italians, drinking and praising "Lacrima Christi" (red) as he was writing a Latin oration on the Augsburg Confession.

  • The American-born Kirschners are more rigid, less worldly than their parents.


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