How to Use worldly in a Sentence

worldly

adjective
  • She is more worldly than her younger sister.
  • All our worldly comforts are now at stake.
    — ABC News, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Four countries in seven years makes a mark on even the worldliest child.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Don’t let your worldly endeavors pull you away from the close-to-home matters at hand.
    — Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Moncrieff was the opposite, old-worldly, not of this time.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Frédérique is clever and hard to read and has an air of worldly sophistication.
    — Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Each chime is supposed to root out a worldly passion, such as anger, suspicion or lust.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 25 Oct. 2022
  • People crave the bonds of community as much as their worldly needs.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2017
  • What Ross, a worldly man, continued to resist at times was the world.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • There’s no perfect yardstick of worldly business heft.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 2 May 2026
  • Parked nearby is a grocery cart filled with his worldly processions.
    — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • He will be fondly remembered for living life to the fullest and his worldly travels.
    — OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 May 2018
  • The choice is your pride or going on the streets and being a person with all of your worldly possessions.
    — Karen Campbell, Laurel Leader, 6 June 2017
  • The brand also takes influence from worldly events and the ebbs and flows of success and failure.
    — Jailynn Taylor, Essence, 23 May 2022
  • Abu Hassan had lost his worldly possessions and was living in a squalid camp.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Members of the second live according to self-love and seek worldly power.
    — Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • No Bible, no book of devotion, no alarm clock marred the worldly charm of her bedside table.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • That wasn’t the point, which was to find DPP during my worldly travels.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • As of Wednesday, the groundhog's worldly whereabouts wasn't clear.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
  • On a more worldly front, your pursuit of success should continue to succeed.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • To me, his comments seemed to apply not just to hustling but to broader aspects of worldly success.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • His belongings were left on the street, a toolbelt and a backpack with all his worldly possessions.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Expect to leave the rest of your worldly possessions on Earth, with a few exceptions.
    — Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023

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