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How to use comely in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective, verb, adverb

Comely means of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome. Example: “He was surprised to see so many women workers. What did he expect, comely maidens?”

Examples of comely by meaning

adjectiveOf a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or...

  • a comely woman
  • These women were much more comely, or rather less hideous than those of Tsa's people; one of them, even, was almost pretty, being less hairy and having a rather nice skin, with high coloring.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp....
  • In particular, Connolly loved good food, expensive wine, first-class travel, inscribed first editions, the South of France and, not least, comely young women.2020 February 18, Michael Dirda, “A tale of the free-spirited women who tangled with Orwell and other literary lions”, in Washington Post

More sentences with comely

  • He was surprised to see so many women workers. What did he expect, comely maidens?From the entry comely maidens
  • Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.From the entry Tirzah
  • In the early evening, the bar fills with regulars trading anecdotes with tattooed, comely, competence-oozing barmaidens.2008 July 30 – August 5, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 42, number 44, page 34. From the entry barmaiden
  • He had had it ever since he came in contact with the comely lubras of the district.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 132. From the entry colour-proud
  • One of your dwarves falls in love with a comely gnome maiden who works at one of the bistros in town.2019, Ray Bussard, Gurgurtha: The Epic Quest, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 164. From the entry gnomette
  • Nino is Nino Kipiani. a comely Georgian princess, a Christian who prefers telephones and motor cars to her lover's Meccanized society.1971, Newsweek, volume 78. From the entry Meccanize
  • And he is not a comely man, but on the contrary he is exceedingly ill favoured; and he is the woodward of that wood.1902, The Mabinogion Vol. 1 (of 3). From the entry woodward
  • Well, if what he runs into is the comely member, all may turn out for the best, as more than one romance has burgeoned in a Cottage Hospital.1939, William Heath Robinson, K[enneth] R[obert] G[ordon] Browne, “Road Sense and Etiquette”, in How to Be a Motorist (Vintage Words of…. From the entry lapsus oculi
  • There were even moments when, looking into her cheval-glass, she cried out against that arrangement in comely lines and tints which got for her the dulia she delighted in.1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson. From the entry dulia

Meaning of comely

  1. adjective Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.
  2. adjective Of a person, an action, behaviour, etc.: meeting accepted moral or social norms; appropriate, becoming, proper.
  3. adjective Of a thing: beautiful, elegant, well-composed; also, delicate, fine.

Full definition of comely

Questions about comely in a sentence

How do you use comely in a sentence?
Comely is used as an adjective, verb and adverb. For example: “He was surprised to see so many women workers. What did he expect, comely maidens?”
What is a short sentence with comely?
“a comely woman”
What does comely mean?
Comely means of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: comely (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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