homely

Example Sentences

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It's certainly a homely affair for James Dunk, who has played every year for about a decade and always enters a team made up of three sets of neighbours.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

But now they've replaced the windows and the ceiling and Yasir - a trained carpenter - has made their flat homely again.

From BBC • May 15, 2025

“This genre is a very interesting merge of something that is extremely homely, extremely intimate and private. Then one thinks, how do you take that onstage?”

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2024

They have their points, but none improves on the homely originals.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2023

But Lillian always remarked that the doctors had taken a badly burned, homely man, and with all the advances of modern medicine at their disposal, turned him into a grotesquerie.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy