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How to use newly in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Newly means very recently/lately; in the immediate past. Example: “She smelled the newly budding flowers.”

Examples of newly by meaning

adverbVery recently/lately; in the immediate past.

  • She smelled the newly budding flowers.
  • One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

More sentences with newly

  • The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary.From the entry abbot
  • It is a fortunate sign if the sun shines on a newly wedded couple.From the entry fortunate
  • The Pope, vested in mitre and cope, is greeted by a newly created Cardinal.From the entry vested
  • The newly made-up front page had to be changed as the last-minute news arrived.From the entry made-up
  • The scientist named his newly discovered species after a famous pop artist.From the entry name after
  • To make him feel welcome, she struck up a conversation with the newly arrived guest.From the entry strike up
  • Shell sand is a useful manure for clay soils, heavy loams, and newly reclaimed bogs.From the entry shell sand
  • We've finally combed out this list by removing the newly ineligible people from it.From the entry comb out
  • The newly elected government began passing ultracapitalist policies to deregulate the market.From the entry ultracapitalist
  • He was newly appointed to be Minister of the Interior.From the entry minister
  • The newly stocked refrigerator is bursting with fresh vegetables.From the entry bursting
  • Until they gain a little seniority at this hospital, newly hired nurses need not expect to have two consecutive off days.From the entry off day
  • A disused theatre newly made into a school.From the entry make into
  • Newly rescued from the desert, she faintingly asked for water.From the entry faintingly
  • The newly appointed parliamentary under secretary answered questions regarding the new infrastructure policy in the House of Commons.From the entry parliamentary under secretary
  • The newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears before the crowds in St.2025 May 8, Lauren Kent, Christopher Lamb, Rob Picheta, Christian Edwards and Kara Fox, “Robert Prevost elected as first American pope and…. From the entry leo
  • The heads of the newly established kraia within the RSFSR were in a rather privileged position.2025 April 15, Stephan Rindlisbacher, “Ukraine and the RSFSR: How to Find a Common Border”, in Borders in Red: Managing Diversity in the…. From the entry krai
  • Here, we report the development of a single-wavelength excitable Brainbow, UFObow, incorporating three newly developed blue-excitable FPs.2024 April 1, Jiahong Hu, et al., “UFObow: A single-wavelength excitable Brainbow for simultaneous multicolor ex-vivo and in-vivo imaging…. From the entry UFObow
  • Being written in a newly discovered language the Kalasmaic text is as yet largely incomprehensible.2023 September 21, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, “New Indo-European language discovered during excavation in Turkey”, in…. From the entry Kalasmaic
  • Daniel grins, feeling the shiv skid off his newly bought chausse.2021, Tao Wong, Adventures on Brad: Books 1-6, Starlit Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry chausse
  • Finally, the newly crowned monarch received the homage of his leading subjects.2021, Tracy Borman, Crown and Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II, Grove Atlantic…. From the entry insignia
  • Not only a newly out baby queer, I was also a baby Southerner.2021 October 28, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City, UNC Press Books, →ISBN…. From the entry baby queer
  • It said such slogans are illegal under a newly enacted national security law.2020 September 6, “Hong Kong police arrest 289 at protests over election delay”, in The Washington Post, Associated Press, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry pro-
  • Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus.2020 January 11, “Coronavirus”, in World Health Organization. From the entry covid-19
  • Since January, 15 newly elected district councilors have been arrested on questionable charges.2020 April 23, Maggie Shum, “Coronavirus may have emptied Hong Kong’s streets, but the pro-democracy protests continue”, in The Washington…. From the entry Central and Western
  • A team of reporters was allocated to interviewing the huge number of newly emerging Windrush victims.2019 September 17, Amelia Gentleman, The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment, Faber & Faber, →ISBN. From the entry Windrush
  • However, in current political times this genre risks becoming newly sincere.2019, Emile Frankel, Hearing the Cloud: Can Music Help Reimagine the Future?. From the entry Trumpwave
  • The future is more newly arrived college grads and tourists in some fruitless search for authenticity.2018, Ling Ma, chapter 1, in Severance, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry simulacrum
  • A biologist has named a newly discovered species of moth after our next president.2017 January 18, AJ Willingham, “New moth named in honor of Donald Trump”, in CNN, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020. From the entry yellowish
  • And, eventually, the newly gleaned information could inform how the company will make brewskis for Mars.2017 December 11, Jackie Wattles, “SpaceX is sending barley to space for Budweiser research”, in CNN Business, archived from the original…. From the entry brewski
  • There are always newly coined slang terms, fresh idioms, and these days unexpected “twitterisms” to deal with.2017, Rebecca L. Oxford, Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies: Self-Regulation in Context (Applied Linguistics in…. From the entry twitterism
  • This delineator was realized by using a newly developed field-emission electron-gun, as described in Sect.2.2.1c.2013, Yasuo Tarui, VLSI Technology, page 81. From the entry delineator
  • No one notices as I stick the newly created sausos into my pocket.2013, Danny Ellis, The Boy at the Gate: A Memoir. From the entry sauso
  • In their newly acquired “meatsuits,” they return to the station and gaze eerily at the building.2013, Galen A. Foresman, Supernatural and Philosophy. From the entry meatsuit
  • A sheet of beige arborite was leaning up against the newly finished garage wall.2013, Margot Griffiths, Angel Hair, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry arborite
  • The loop terminates when all forbidden markings (those initially declared and those newly identified) are processed.2013, Marcello La Rosa, Pnina Soffer, Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2012 International Workshops, Tallinn, Estonia, September…. From the entry coreachable
  • If bioturbation is not present, the newly deposited material stays at the bed surface.2012, Wilfried Michaelis, Estuarine Water Quality Management: Monitoring, Modelling and Research, Springer Science & Business Media…. From the entry bioturbation
  • The newly discovered Yoda worm (Yoda purpurata) lives 2.5km below the Atlantic.2012 March 6, “Purple 'Yoda worm' discovered in deep Atlantic”, in BBC News. From the entry Yoda worm

Meaning of newly

  1. adverb Very recently/lately; in the immediate past.

Full definition of newly

Questions about newly in a sentence

How do you use newly in a sentence?
Newly is used as an adverb. For example: “She smelled the newly budding flowers.”
What is a short sentence with newly?
“She smelled the newly budding flowers.”
What does newly mean?
Newly means very recently/lately; in the immediate past.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: newly (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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