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Example sentences for "cleanly"

Lexicographically close words:
cleaners; cleanest; cleaning; cleanings; cleanliness; cleanness; cleans; cleanse; cleansed; cleanser
  1. That of the governor is of the same material, and overtops the rest; it is whitewashed, and has a neat and cleanly appearance.

  2. Lieutenant Budd represented the pueblo as cleanly and orderly.

  3. I should judge, from the appearance of their persons, that they ought to be termed, so far as ablutions go, a cleanly people.

  4. This is a very cleanly practice in a hot, dry land and was adopted long before Mohammed.

  5. They were shot dead so cleanly that they knew no pain, and with them two of their children fell, not to die so easily.

  6. He was cleanly too; kept his rags of clothing as decent as circumstances allowed, and looked less like a wild beast in a litter of foul straw than did his fellows.

  7. Now who would suppose that I would ever again see that chipping from a London gaol I told you of--my shipmate of cleanly habit and unsocial nature.

  8. The banks are low, but cleanly cut, and seldom sloping.

  9. It is certain that the kernel of Art is aspiration for higher things; at all events, I should lead a cleanly life.

  10. Lying on the bed, cleanly shaved, wearing evening clothes, silk socks, patent leather shoes and white gloves?

  11. Two little girls were in the house, and they were humbly but cleanly clad.

  12. Having mentioned this cleanly dog, I must next introduce to you a canine friend, called Master Rough, belonging to my kind next-door neighbours; and I think you will acknowledge that he surpasses the other in the propriety of his behaviour.

  13. She was a very neat and cleanly creature, everlastingly brushing her clothes, and bathing regularly in a bath of snow provided for her in the cabin.

  14. The hog is, naturally, a cleanly animal, and if given a chance he will keep himself very neat and clean.

  15. Philadelphia being previously an unusually cleanly and well-ventilated city, what would be the saving of life, health, and wealth were such a city as New-York perfectly cleansed and ventilated?

  16. He had stepped in some hole and the bone was broken cleanly across.

  17. The bullet of Pierre had struck the barrel and knocked it cleanly from his hand.

  18. So he reached for his gun and got it out just in time to be shot cleanly through the hand.

  19. Straight in the saddle sat Dick Wilbur, and he raised his face a little to the wind, smiling faintly as if he rejoiced in its fine strength, as handsome as the horse he rode, as cleanly cut, as finely bred.

  20. He was no cleanly cut beauty, but an ugly headed monster with a savagely hooked Roman nose and small, keen eyes, always red at the corners.

  21. His sword was cut cleanly in two, his left pauldron was cleanly cleaved, and a great numbness afflicted his left shoulder.

  22. All her sympathies were aroused, but not to such an extent as to smother her cleanly instincts.

  23. The sheet is laid face down upon a cleanly polished stone, which is then repeatedly pulled through a hand press until all the ink has been transferred from the paper to the surface of the stone.

  24. Christians should be excellent in the management of their profession, and should make that which is good in itself, good to the church and to the world, by a sweet and cleanly managing of it.

  25. In this country the introduction of earthenware plates has driven the less cleanly wooden plate, called a trencher, entirely out of use.

  26. The offense is created by exhalations from the bodies of the least cleanly class of the population.

  27. We are sorry to say that the class of Portuguese and Spaniards one encounters on these coasting vessels is far from decently cleanly in daily habits, carelessly adding to the unsanitary conditions.

  28. The place might be a bit taken out of any shire town of the British home island, were it only a little more cleanly and less unsavory; still it is more English than West Indian.

  29. To sleep in these crowded business centres, in ill-ventilated apartments, with far from cleanly surroundings, is simply to provoke fatal illness, and during an epidemic of fever these places furnish fuel for the flames.

  30. It is the capital of the province of Rio Janeiro, and has broader streets, is more reasonably laid out, and is kept more cleanly than Rio itself.

  31. Golden braziers perched on tapering legged tripods beneath plumes of pale blue smoke that lent thin incense in the room, pierced faintly but cleanly into his nostrils like knives.

  32. The pale light fell cleanly over his hand, wrist, and midway up his forearm.

  33. The Poyas, Xicaques, Secos, and especially the Caribs are, on the contrary, very cleanly in their habits.

  34. The Chimsyans 'are much more active and cleanly than the tribes to the south.

  35. The Snakes are rather cleanly in their persons.

  36. Some of the Snakes are of a more cleanly disposition, but, generally speaking, the whole Shoshone family is a remarkably dirty one.

  37. One would think the bath would make the Indians cleanly in their persons, but it hardly seems so, for they look rather dirtier after they have been in the temazcalli than before.

  38. A cleanly dressed young woman, with clogs on her bare feet, was scrubbing the floor in the new outer room.

  39. She corrected: "And neat and cleanly in his clothes," which shows the value of literary criticism.

  40. There lay shields and spears, sprawling legs and tattooed faces, grotesque and horrific, among the brown earthenware pots, the round velvety leaves and small red petals of that plant so familiar in the cleanly windows of our native land.

  41. At the supper-table Budge and Toddie appeared cleanly clothed in their rightful faces.

  42. Lastly, we want him to be cleanly and comfortable in the house, to know how to keep out of the way when he is not wanted, and to be sufficiently clever to learn all kinds of amusing performances.

  43. He was a temperate man, and had his house very cleanly kept.

  44. Cleanly clad in Sunday attire, they arrive at the desired spot, and at once prepare to ascend the rock.

  45. It was toward the evening when, after riding through towns and villages, he came to what was evidently a caravansary of good size and cleanly keeping at the roadside.

  46. The timbers of the house walls were cleanly hewn and skillfully fitted, and they were tightly calked with moss and tempered clay.

  47. Seeing him thus so horribly dead, I went aside and fell to scrubbing my hatchet, blade and haft, with the cleanly sand.

  48. In truth, it cannot be charged to the account of these helots of modern society if their dwellings are not more cleanly than the pig-sties which are here and there to be seen among them.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cleanly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bleached; bright; chaste; clean; clear; dainty; fair; fastidious; freely; fresh; immaculate; immaculately; innocent; kosher; pure; purely; shiny; snowy; spotless; stainless; sweet; unadulterated; unblemished; undefiled; unpolluted; unsoiled; unspotted; unstained; unsullied; untainted; untarnished; virtuous; white