comely

Example Sentences

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As for the pictures, they’re shrouded in ominous shadows, but although the raven’s eyes burn like embers, the bird does nothing worse than cry “nevermore,” and Lenore, when she appears, looks downright comely.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Was she too fancy to have her dental work performed by a comely rattlesnake in the Badlands, as is custom in South Dakota?

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024

The comely couple has been gossip fodder for nearly two decades.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2023

"You are the most comely girl at court," her father tells her.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2022

At this the grey-eyed goddess Athena left him and left that comely land, going over sea to Marathon, to the wide roadways of Athens and her retreat in the stronghold of Erekhtheus.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer