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How to use richly in a sentence

28 example sentences · adverb

Richly means in an attractive or manner; full of colour or detail. Example: “Her first novel contained a host of characters who were richly and convincingly drawn.”

Examples of richly by meaning

adverbThoroughly, totally; in an ample manner.

  • a richly deserved comeuppance

More sentences with richly

  • Her first novel contained a host of characters who were richly and convincingly drawn.From the entry draw
  • The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.From the entry universe
  • We must have put down about thirty quart bottles, richly raisined and tightly corked.2005, Alan King, Matzo Balls for Breakfast, page 183. From the entry raisin
  • Their pots also were made of sunbaked mud, unfired and unglazed, though sometimes richly engraved.2005, MaryLee Knowlton, Uzbekistan, page 103. From the entry sunbake
  • In a few years that richly nuanced dialect will be as dead as Sanskrit.2005, John Sutherland, biographical note to H. G. Wells’ The History of Mr Polly (Penguin Classics). From the entry proletarianism
  • The beautiful boy has flowing or richly textured hyacinthine hair, the only luxuriance in this chastity.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry hyacinthine
  • The smaller a town the more richly it hums with gossip.1980, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 2, in Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin, published 1982, page 32. From the entry gossip
  • His playing is richly imaginative, often sensuous, and always rockingly rhythmic.1955, Frederic V. Grunfeld, Music and Recordings, 1955, page 200. From the entry rockingly
  • Each show targets some facet of adult life that richly deserves to be questioned, such as sport hunting with assault weapons.1998 May 10, Stephen Eberhart, “‘South Park,’ Teachers and Kids”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times…. From the entry tightrope walking
  • Croyd bought three skewers of shaslik, lamb and peppers and tomatoes, richly spiced, dripping, and grilled almost black.1995, Sage Walker, chapter 7, in George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, Melinda M[arilyn] Snodgrass, editors, Black Trump: A Wild Card Mosaic…. From the entry shaslik
  • Here we decided to make camp beside a mossbound spring, in the lee of the steep richly flowered bank.1967, Peter Scott, Happy the Man, page 148. From the entry mossbound
  • The ore is a richly magnetiferous Pochuck gneiss.1910, William Shirley Bayley, Iron Mines and Mining in New Jersey, page 351. From the entry magnetiferous
  • These Semi-State Rooms are among the most richly decorated interiors in the Castle and are used by The Queen for official entertaining.a. 2017, Royal Collection Trust, "Windsor Castle > The Semi-State Rooms" (website accessed 19 Oct 2017). From the entry semi-state
  • In yet another ironic twist in a story richly endowed with such warps, the Tsar's telegram crossed one despatched in the other direction.2014, July Crisis: The World's Descent into War, Summer 1914, page 396. From the entry warp
  • TOUT À FAIT The designer famous for rich colors and pouffiness sets a new boutique ablaze with a riot of richly pouffed colorfulness.2008 May 15, Cintra Wilson, “Advanced Stages of Regression”, in New York Times. From the entry pouffiness
  • Ignoring the familiar discomfort, he padded barefoot across the thick white carpet toward the heavy curtains that lined the richly appointed bedroom’s wide transparisteel window.2007, Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do. From the entry barefoot
  • Thick slices of taro cake, richly flavored with scallops, mushrooms, shrimp, Chinese bacon, and creamy taro, are pan-fried until golden brown and fragrant.1999, Grace Young, The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen: Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster…. From the entry taro cake
  • Most of the older buildings are of reddish-brown ironstone with mossy-tiled roofs, and almost all have stone-embanked gardens, richly planted and expertly maintained.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 374, about Tealby. From the entry reddish
  • The dress she wore was no longer a cheap blue serge but a handsome tricolette, richly trimmed according to the prevailing mode.1922, Edith Van Dyne, chapter 4, in Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman. From the entry mode
  • “You are prodigious,” he said, richly.1903, James Henry, “The Idealists”, in The Mortarboard, […] [T]he Junior Class of Barnard College, books II–III, pages 86–87. From the entry tremendosity
  • Rooney led Manchester United up the Wembley steps to collect the FA Cup and add a missing medal to his collection - a richly deserved accolade.2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC. From the entry accolade
  • No other country has a brewing tradition as richly diverse as that of Belgium, with beers ranging from pleasant pale lagers to wild, winelike Flemish reds and lambics.2016 April 1, Lonely Planet, Helena Smith, Andy Symington, Donna Wheeler, Lonely Planet Belgium & Luxembourg, Lonely Planet, →ISBN. From the entry red
  • Hence this leader wears a richly decorated fur hat and a large gold neck chain, as well as a full steel cuirass over a padded mail tippet.2014, David Nicolle, Forces of the Hanseatic League: 13th–15th Centuries, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry tippet
  • Can you imagine, finally, the opening of Janácek's Sinfonietta, with its richly overtoned, overlapping fanfares, performed not by brass but by a consort of oboes—even very loud ones?2011, Jerrold Levinson, Music, Art, and Metaphysics. From the entry overtone
  • After this, perhaps, the next most imposing structure in Liverpool is the railway station; it is built of stone, richly ornamented with thirty-six columns of the Corinthian order.1958 October, “Liverpool to London in 1842”, in Railway Magazine, page 679. From the entry ornament
  • In both man and the frog the thyroid gland consists of small capsules of a jellyish material and is very richly supplied with blood vessels (Fig. 61).1940, Lancelot Hogben, Principles of Animal Biology. From the entry jellyish
  • He could see that she was tastefully, though not richly, dressed, and that she walked with an elastic step that revealed a light heart and the vigor of perfect health.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars. From the entry elastic

Meaning of richly

  1. adverb In an attractive or manner; full of colour or detail.
  2. adverb In a manner that occupies the non-visual senses; flavourfully, deeply.
  3. adverb Done advantageously, done as to be wealthy.

Full definition of richly

Questions about richly in a sentence

How do you use richly in a sentence?
Richly is used as an adverb. For example: “Her first novel contained a host of characters who were richly and convincingly drawn.”
What is a short sentence with richly?
“a richly deserved comeuppance”
What does richly mean?
Richly means in an attractive or manner; full of colour or detail.

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