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
• That wasn’t the point, which was to find DPP during my worldly travels.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024