kindly

Example Sentences

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Other kindly ushers, who had directed people to an adjacent section after Section 535 filled up, politely asked everyone to please put their shirts back on before returning to the general stadium population.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Which isn’t to say that rock’s intelligentsia ever viewed him kindly.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

"We kindly ask that the privacy of Lillianna's family and friends is respected at this time."

From BBC • May 27, 2026

The sport didn’t take kindly to interlopers with no playing experience of their own bringing mathematics into a game that had been moving along just fine ever since the National League was founded in 1876.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

My fingers had fastened on her hand which lay outside the sheet: had she pressed mine kindly, I should at that moment have experienced true pleasure.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë