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Example sentences for "dearly"

Lexicographically close words:
dearely; dearer; dearest; dearie; dearling; dearness; dears; dearth; deary; death
  1. Adieu, dearly beloved and estimable brethren and fellow-ministers; may the Lord Jesus long preserve, by his strength, the Bernese republic in a most prosperous condition.

  2. Accordingly, a very excellent and eminently judicious man, and my dearly beloved brother, has gladly undertaken a journey to you, in the name of the Church, at the cost of great toil and trouble at this severe season of the year.

  3. I knew they were poor, and I should not have given a promise which would either bring them into difficulties or expose me to paying too dearly for my lodging.

  4. D'Ache took twenty louis from his pocket and gave them to his enemy, saying, "I may be mistaken, but I hope to make you pay dearly for your brutality.

  5. This hovel however, joined a cottage of a neat and pleasant appearance, but after my late dearly bought experience, I dared not enter it.

  6. She loved Emma, and dearly loved to hear her talk; but she did not claim the right of keeping close to her side.

  7. Olga loved me very dearly and trusted me, I believe, as implicitly as any woman could trust the man she loved.

  8. I sprang aside, whipped out my sword, sent up a lusty cry for help that made the houses ring again, and set my back against the wall to sell my life as dearly as I could.

  9. Tis certain, My Brother lov'd ye dearly, and I ought As dearly to preserve that love.

  10. So dearly and so tenderly I love him, I do not know the cause why, yea my life too.

  11. Still the revenge would be bought dearly in the future hostility of Flavia and her friends, and in the exposure of his own humiliating attitude.

  12. How to meet this abominable complication wherein he must sacrifice the woman he so dearly loved or the man who was the Damon to his Pythias, the Jonathan to his David?

  13. The conspirators had provided themselves with weapons, intending, if they were discovered, to sell their lives as dearly as possible.

  14. They prepared, therefore, to defend themselves, being resolved to sell their lives as dearly as possible.

  15. He lay in ambush, resolved to do what he could to stop the foreign soldiers from ravaging his home, and in his desperate mood he had no thought save to sell his life as dearly as he could: what could seven men do against hundreds?

  16. I know he is at peace in heaven, happy at the side of the Lord he so dearly loved.

  17. She will be my dearly beloved sister and she is almost exactly my age.

  18. The first treacherous thought in Leclerc's mind is a breach of the truce; and dearly shall he rue it.

  19. He must know that I am open to generous treatment; but otherwise ready and able to sell dearly a life which has done our country some service.

  20. Nor can one wonder that his views were somewhat grim at that particular time, and still bore the impress of an experience lately and very dearly bought.

  21. Don't you remember how dearly Mother loved the great walnut tree that shaded the veranda at home?

  22. Perhaps the longings that she repressed and the loneliness that she hid under her smile were costing her too dearly in their levies upon strength and vitality.

  23. Namely, against recognition of how very far the lives of men--even those we know most dearly and closely--and the lives of us women are really apart.

  24. The Princess Victoria seems to have been always ready for play, dearly loving a romp.

  25. But all that grief at Coburg and Gotha showed how dearly Prince Albert was loved, and how he loved.

  26. You know he is very fond of prying into the affairs of other people, and he loves dearly to boast that there is nothing going on in the Green Forest or on the Green Meadows that he doesn't know about.

  27. Now Paddy the Beaver loves the Green Forest as dearly as you and I do, and perhaps even a little more dearly.

  28. You will not be surprised that I should already dearly love her, and feel that it was worth coming so far to know and give her pleasure.

  29. She never opened one of those dearly familiar envelopes without the irrepressible hope that it contained a love-letter; a passionate demand that she come back to him; leave all she had and come back to him; his woman to her man.

  30. She was not neglected, of course, and she was dearly loved.

  31. The victory of the Comanches was complete, it is true, but too dearly bought for the Indians to think of rejoicing at it.

  32. The nations of the world have, for the most part, fallen a prey to battling ideologies that threaten to disrupt the very foundations of their dearly won political unity.

  33. Such, dearly beloved friends, is the vista that stretches .

  34. And what HE was--Children, no one but me ever knew all his goodness, no one but himself ever knew how dearly I loved your father.

  35. We have committed no absolute sin, and have paid dearly for any folly.

  36. Jane would not have agreed with you, Cousin Caroline; she loved her husband very dearly when she was a girl.

  37. She dearly loved her fine brother, but she was greatly in awe of him.

  38. And you so far enlist my heart on your side, that you inspire me with the hope to contribute to the happiness of two friends whom I dearly love.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dearly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dear; lovingly; passionately; tenderly


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dearly beloved; dearly loved