verily

Example Sentences

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And yet, verily, my soul is filled with confusion.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023

It is a tragicomedy, a hybrid of past and present, a pastiche and an original yarn, a verily fun and achingly melancholy novel.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2021

An article in The Muskogee Comet, a Black newspaper, from June 23, 1904, proclaimed that the Tulsa area “may verily be called the Eden of the West for the colored people.”

From New York Times • May 25, 2021

We believe verily to see the goodness of the Lord.

From Washington Times • Apr. 16, 2021

He looked now, had he known it, verily Ernil i Pheriannath, the Prince of the Halflings, that folk had called him; but he felt uncomfortable.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien