Sentence examples for goodly from high-quality English sources.

• A goodly city is this Antium.

• We may well say that 'our lot is cast in a goodly heritage.'

• Aunt Maida had also included a goodly half-cup of bourbon in the batter.

• “Marry, ’tis done—a goodly piece of work, too, and wrought with expedition.  

• He "hammered a goodly number of underlings," Shnayerson wrote in a Vanity Fair essay.

• Humans share nearly all of their DNA with one another, and a goodly chunk with worms and mice.

• Dinner over, we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper.

• I had a certain fly (at least I think it was the same one) buzz around my head for a goodly long while this afternoon.

Use goodly in a sentence.

• The Apple Watch Series 4 has just arrived, adding a goodly measure of new features to the device, as well as slightly revamped design.

• Then he asked one of the young men to move aside, and, taking hold of the decanter, filled out for himself a goodly measure of whisky.

• For its deep rust-red color, merguez relies on lots of dried sweet red pepper (paprika) and a goodly amount of hot red pepper (cayenne).

• Out of the frontier and the West which it left behind came a goodly share of the country’s problems and not a few of its most bitter conflicts.

• O madam, yonder’s my lord your son with a patch of velvet on’s face; whether there be a scar under’t or no, the velvet knows; but ’tis a goodly patch of velvet.

• We picked you up when you were starving in the desert, we shared our food with you, led you safe to the Chosen Valley, gave you a goodly share of land, and allowed you to wax rich under our protection.

• Every whale-ship takes out a goodly number of letters for various ships, whose delivery to the persons to whom they may be addressed, depends upon the mere chance of encountering them in the four oceans.

• A new open-pit mine at the top of Kuannersuit, a cloud-rimmed mountain near the settlement of Narsaq in the south of the island, may provide a goodly chunk of the rare earths needed to ditch fossil fuels.

goodly sentence examples

• And although the pound’s swoon stoked inflation, while failing to generate the export boom that some had expected, Britain continued to attract a goodly share of foreign investment and unemployment kept falling.

• Three autobiographical works describe her background and early experiences: A Goodly Heritage (1932), A Goodly Fellowship (1939), and The White Gate: Adventures in the Imagination of a Child (1954).

• Goodly analyzed 2,000 employers offering student-loan-repayment benefits in the US, and found that the benefit is now offered in companies in all 50 states, with California, New York, and Massachusetts topping the list for states with the most employers offering the benefit.

• And George and Tom moved to a comfortable seat in the chimney-corner, while Aunte Chloe, after baking a goodly pile of cakes, took her baby on her lap, and began alternately filling its mouth and her own, and distributing to Mose and Pete, who seemed rather to prefer eating theirs as they rolled about on the floor under the table, tickling each other, and occasionally pulling the baby’s toes.