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Example sentences for "showily"

Lexicographically close words:
showery; showes; showest; showeth; showiest; showing; showman; showmen; shown; showne
  1. Upon the artist, alert for social peculiarities, the scene made little impression, for to an artist there is a limit to the interest of a crowd showily dressed, though they blaze with diamonds.

  2. Miss Day's room was one of the largest in the college; it was showily furnished, with an intention to produce a Japanese effect.

  3. She was extremely showily dressed, and her large hooped petticoat gave additional effect to her lofty stature.

  4. Mrs. Maggot, as well as her companion Edgeworth Bess, was showily dressed; nor did either of them disdain the aid supposed to be lent to a fair skin by the contents of the patchbox.

  5. None of the groups in which the males are showily colored, while the females are plain, belong to this class.

  6. The species Aetobatus narinari is showily colored, brown with yellow spots, the body very angular, with long whip-like tail.

  7. He was young, handsome, showily dressed, and beyond question the person of whom Lael had complained.

  8. Teuthis lineatus, yellow with blue stripes, a showily colored fish of the coral reefs, is often poisonous, its flesh producing ciguatera.

  9. In the Common Mallard or Wild Duck (Anas boscas) the cock is far more showily coloured than the hen, but in all the species most nearly allied to it the males are as inconspicuous as the females, e.

  10. In the great majority of cases of sexual dimorphism among birds the cock is the more showily coloured.

  11. It must be remembered that, other things being equal, the inconspicuously coloured organism has a better chance of survival than the showily coloured one.

  12. Ahead of them, a woman warmly and showily dressed was sauntering along.

  13. He was dressed both showily and shabbily, and a great breastpin was like a blotch upon his rumpled shirt-bosom.

  14. Some very showily dressed, knowing-looking girls, that she had met at a picnic, had increased this longing for the city.

  15. All eyes were then turned in her direction; all eyes fixed themselves on the showily dressed and very handsome child who suddenly entered the room.

  16. Alice was accompanied by a tall, showily dressed girl.

  17. His good friend showily balanced and might have been about to reply with weight; but what she in fact brought out was only: "I see you're right about it: I must let her speak for herself.

  18. No sooner had he done so than a showily dressed lady advanced to the place where he was standing, and held out her hand for the ornaments, exclaiming: "I forbid you to buy those articles, sir.

  19. As he turned into Broadway, he encountered a showily dressed courtezan, who, addressing him with that absence of ceremony for which such ladies are remarkable, requested him to accompany her home.

  20. He was showily and picturesquely dressed in a green and white striped robe, wide trousers of a speckled pattern and colour, like the plumage of a Guinea-fowl, with an embroidery of green silk in the front of the legs.

  21. London's Love, who had never looked more showily vulgar.

  22. When he recovered himself he saw before him a showily dressed young man, who accosted him thus: "Is that the way to talk to a lady, eh?

  23. After them came Cashel Byron, showily dressed in a velveteen coat, and tightly-fitting fawn-colored pantaloons that displayed the muscles of his legs.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "showily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    daringly; gaily; loftily