goodly

Example Sentences

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"The last time we had goodly numbers... was round about 2017, so it's great to see them now."

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2024

I also disappeared for a goodly while into Stephen Amidon’s taut domestic thriller “Locust Lane,” which is just coming out this month.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2023

“For what more august, more charming and useful, than the culture and preservation of such goodly plantations: That shade to our grand-children give,” the British forester John Evelyn wrote in the 1660s, quoting Virgil.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2022

From this play’s powerful moments could be made a goodly list.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2022

“That is variable but a goodly number are in the ten- thousand- to twenty-thousand-dollar class.”

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck