How to Use homely in a Sentence

homely

adjective

• She has a homely face.
• He's a bit homely but nice.
• An Uber dropped me off in front of a homely apartment complex in the southeast part of the city.
  — Brian Merchant, Harper's magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
• Meatloaf can be a a homely dish, but give your next recipe a makeover by baking it in a Bundt pan.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 20 June 2018
• The most common of them, cerium, ranks 25th in abundance in the earth’s crust, one place ahead of homely copper.
  — Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2011
• Pickles and relishes, so much a part of our heritage, have given a lift to many a homely meal.
  — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2019
• The website had a homely, almost slapdash design with a light blue banner and a strange name: Slate Star Codex.
  — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2021
• Hampton Court—a homely palace, like a kitchen garden for Versailles.
  — Mavis Gallant, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022
• Firth wasn't the only one sweating over the homely masterpiece.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• Peeling them was a struggle, and they were left looking pockmarked and homely.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
• The building is a homely 1970's office tower clad in concrete.
  — Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2018
• Powell first thought the homely wooden figurines – a man and a woman – were put in his mailbox by mistake.
  — Laura Colvin, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
• In the latest sign that the homely bank branch is in trouble, Wells Fargo & Co. has cut a layer and a half of bosses from atop its branch network, the nation’s largest.
  — Joseph N. Distefano, Philly.com, 31 July 2017
• Drawn in by his star power, many women flocked toward the homely and married slugger.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2019
• And fans trooped in by the tens of thousands in their woolies and long johns, waving their homely orange towels, electric and ready to celebrate.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2016
• The main difference is his Soho space has a small kitchen, so the menu is slimmed down, but each dish has been perfected -- and the food's designed for sharing, adding to the homely feel.
  — CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
• The Viking cruise ships provide a wide range of discrete 'sitting room' environments to give the sense of being in a more homely setting.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2019
• In German, the word for the uncanny comes from a negation of the word for the homely, unheimlich from heimlich, a quick slip, on a prefix’s turn, from the cozy to the claustrophobic.
  — Gillian Osborne, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• True to its name, this homely bouchon offers an offal-heavy menu: three courses cost about $32 at dinner, $25 at lunch.
  — Will Hawkes, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Still, the 45-year-old star perfectly demonstrates how summer outfits don't always have to be so homely or cutesy.
  — Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 July 2020
• Part therapy, part self-expression, our homely obsession with crafts is poised to take over the world.
  — Michael Bierut, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
• The Prius, while a game-changer at the time of its debut, has often been criticized by reviewers for its homely design.
  — Sean McLain, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
• It's made of solid brass because life's too short for homely plastic watering cans.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Dec. 2021
• Sartore treats all creatures—great and small, handsome and homely—with reverence.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2019
• The look is soft, opaque at times, doing away with hi-def graphics for something more childlike, homely and calm — a video game that will likely inspire art that will grace many a parent’s fridge.
  — Todd Martens Game Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2022
• Some of us members of the electorate feel like homely heiresses being courted by a motley bevy of suitors and tasked with figuring out who the fortune-hunters are.
  — Helaine Williams, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2022
• These homely delights, Risbridger asserts, will sustain us through dark times.
  — Jennifer Reese, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2022
• Like his singing voice, guitarist Thompson's memoir of finding his way as a pioneering folk-rocker is homely in the best British way: inviting, down to earth and honest.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2021
• The Bucher family has been running the hotel since 1918 and its homely atmosphere may derive from the fact that the family actually lives in a wing of the building.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• These are homely examples of a profound issue that haunts both science and the human condition: the specter of local maxima.
  — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024