How to Use worldly in a Sentence

worldly

adjective
  • She is more worldly than her younger sister.
  • Now, rich, worldly men aren’t the ones fighting off the STD.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The figure of the Jewish moneylender is the product, not the source, of the myth of the worldly, greedy Jew.
    Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
  • The best way to wear your worldly goods: all together—and all at once.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Kirsten’s own life, lived in the light of such a man, as a sort of Heaven on Earth, as a worldly blessing.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Four countries in seven years makes a mark on even the worldliest child.
    Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2017
  • This was love: to submit to the absence of worldly desire, for the promise of life.
    Muktita Suhartono Lauren Decicca, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Just let go of worldly concerns; invite a loved one or child to join you.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2019
  • What’s the music business to make of this worldly panoply of owners?
    Tim Ingham, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
  • Compass Rose is dressed with strings of lights, turquoise chairs, throw pillows, rugs on the walls — a mix-and-match backdrop to suit the worldly menu.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Her worldly black companion, dressed in blue-green silk, sits at the end of the bed, thinking and smoking.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The brand also takes influence from worldly events and the ebbs and flows of success and failure.
    Jailynn Taylor, Essence, 23 May 2022
  • Who knows how things might look in 2022 with a team of built around emerging youngsters and the other-worldly skills of Christian Pulisic.
    Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 19 June 2018
  • Her fresh flavors and worldly approach were part of Cranks’ attempt to update its brown-ricey brand for the nineties.
    Julia Tausch, Bon Appetit, 13 June 2018
  • In H-Town, worldly decadence meets Texas-sized portions with a dash of Southern charm at the table.
    Rebecca Treon, Chron, 2 May 2022
  • As of Wednesday, the groundhog's worldly whereabouts wasn't clear.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Frédérique is clever and hard to read and has an air of worldly sophistication.
    Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Edmund Gosse, a worldly man of letters, wrote his best book in his 50s with this memoir of his childhood.
    Claire Tomalin, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2018
  • Meghan Markle is the woman Prince Harry fell in love with because of her 36 years of worldly existence, not in spite of it.
    refinery29.com, 4 May 2018
  • But a few years out of school and the corrections of worldly judgment caused a penetrating self-doubt to set in.
    Vivian Gornick, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
  • There’s nothing quite like a hot bath to relax your muscles and cleanse you of your worldly troubles—at least for an hour or so.
    Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Croatia has been a high-powered side blessed with worldly gifts in the feet of Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic.
    Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
  • But Dee is just one of the many other-worldly beings Naomi will encounter.
    Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Expect to leave the rest of your worldly possessions on Earth, with a few exceptions.
    Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
  • People crave the bonds of community as much as their worldly needs.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The precise, worldly cooking at August was of a similar caliber to what was then found at the best restaurants on the west and east coasts.
    Brett Anderson, NOLA.com, 21 Oct. 2017
  • He will be fondly remembered for living life to the fullest and his worldly travels.
    OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 May 2018
  • Abu Hassan had lost his worldly possessions and was living in a squalid camp.
    Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Each chime is supposed to root out a worldly passion, such as anger, suspicion or lust.
    Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Whereas the Buddhist might accept the captive circumstances of a long flight as an invitation to let go of worldly snares, the rawdogger seeks to overcome them through refusal and its public performance.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024

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