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The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill.

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 Meanings and Examples of HOMELY
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homely
 a.  of home; domestic; familiar; intimate; plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished
Classic Sentence: (102 in 7 pages)
1  The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Rosedale in the paternal role was hardly a figure to soften Lily; yet she could not but notice a quality of homely goodness in his advances to the child.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
3  She appreciated the homely ease of village life.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Instantly she was released from the homely comfort of a prairie town.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  He was a dapper little Irishman, very vain, homely as a monkey, with friends everywhere, and a sweetheart in every port, like a sailor.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
6  She was a homely woman, with a small weazened face and body and eyes that glowed.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  She seemed strikingly homely, standing there in the afternoon light.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXI
8  His homely face was suffused with a light of love for the army which was to him all things beautiful and powerful.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
9  This was my homely thought, as I contemplated the box-tree.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
10  I could not help thinking even in that interval, I remember, what a noble fellow he was in appearance, and how homely and plain Mr. Mell looked opposed to him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
11  If Mr. Mell looked homely, in my eyes, before the handsome boy, it would be quite impossible to say how homely Mr. Creakle looked.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
12  I am glad to think the Loves and Graces took such airy forms in its homely procession.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
13  His homely figure seemed to be lightened up by his fidelity and generosity.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
14  And Mrs. Gummidge took his hand, and kissed it with a homely pathos and affection, in a homely rapture of devotion and gratitude, that he well deserved.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
15  He left my homely dwelling to mingle with the gay nobility of your brother's court, where he learned to do those tricks of horsemanship which you prize so highly.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
16  Despite burglar alarms and window locks, homes are never impregnable against determined thieves.
17  About a dozen homes were damaged in the deluge.
18  A lot of new homes are being built on the edge of town.
19  One in four people worldwide are without adequate homes.
20  A gas main had cracked under my neighbour's garage and gas had seeped into our homes.
21  People put up their homes as collateral in order to raise the money to invest in the scheme.
22  The sad fact/truth is we can't afford to provide homes for all.
23  The only way to solve homelessness is to provide more homes.
24  They say they will stay to rebuild their homes rather than retreat to refugee camps.
25  Security forces were given sweeping powers to search homes.
26  They were dragged from their homes, shrieking and weeping.
27  “There has been an increase in vacant homes, so choices are many," Zhan says, "especially for a first-time home buyer.”
28  The buyer, who wished to remain anonymous, is a foreigner with homes in Europe.
29  The blaze, which is not yet under control, has destroyed five thousand hectares of pine woodland and forced hundreds of villagers to leave their homes.
30  There's been no census since the war began, but it's clear a huge proportion of Sri Lankan Tamils have been uprooted from their homes by this conflict.