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Example sentences for "familiarly"

Lexicographically close words:
familiarity; familiarize; familiarized; familiarizing; familiarlie; familiars; familias; familie; familier; families
  1. Jacob, when he kept Laban's flocks, conversed familiarly with God.

  2. There one of the two heavenly ladies, who daily discoursed familiarly with the peasant girl, had her most famous sanctuary; there it was that Saint Catherine received multitudes of pilgrims and worked great miracles.

  3. There was a soldier in the Twelfth, who was familiarly known as "Kid.

  4. The members of the Twelfth generally, regretted very much to part with their brave old commander, who was familiarly known in his command as the "Old Grey Eagle," as he was a general favorite with them.

  5. The first man we saw on the island was an Indian named Joseph Polis, whom my relative had known from a boy, and now addressed familiarly as "Joe.

  6. I; and, retiring a little from the crowd, I took from my pocket the little newspaper paragraph of the negro, and read the name which had sounded so familiarly to my ears.

  7. He spoke familiarly of those whose names I had often read in newspapers as the great leaders of the "sporting world," and affected to have known them all on terms of intimacy and friendship.

  8. The hourly recurring name that speaks so familiarly of home, is a powerful antidote to the sense of banishment.

  9. She was not at all averse to thus posing, and chatted as familiarly as though we were old friends.

  10. The surface of this saturated layer is called the ground-water level, or more familiarly the "water table.

  11. The consequence was, that in about five minutes more he was occupying a seat opposite them, chatting as familiarly as though he were an old playmate.

  12. One evening Buttons and Dick came in and found a stranger chatting familiarly with the landlord and a young hussar.

  13. All offices of heaven so well she knew, 130 Before she came, that nothing there was new: And she was so familiarly received, As one returning, not as one arrived.

  14. With all Northern fishes that are familiarly known, the case is different.

  15. To define him more particularly, he is a member of the trygonidae family, familiarly known as sting rays, and called by negroes and fishermen, and nearly every body else on the coast, stingarees.

  16. Footnote: The paper money issued by congress was familiarly called continental money.

  17. The prevailing tone was of a gray tending to the pale yellow of the Tauchnitz editions with which the place is more familiarly associated in the minds of English-speaking travellers.

  18. Here is no place for that respectable class of citizens called gentlemen, and their much vilified brethren, familiarly known as loafers.

  19. Its merit consists mainly in the fact that it presents a tolerably lifelike picture of the Past, and introduces us familiarly to the hearths and homes of New England in the seventeenth century.

  20. We get these stories so young and grow up with them so familiarly that when we finally come into a realization of them they hold no possible surprise and so their first charm is lost.

  21. Lyne, known more familiarly among his theatrical associates as "Tom" Lyne.

  22. Jimmy" Harris, as he was familiarly called, cut quite a figure in the future history of the theatre as manager and deserves more than a passing notice.

  23. Joe," as he was familiarly called, was just at the zenith of his fame about this time, and he filled the theatre from pit to dome.

  24. Closely scrutinizing this field of heathenish revels, we continued on up the ravine, and in a few minutes familiarly paid our respects to the King's father, by unceremoniously bobbing through his doorway, and slapping him smartly on the back.

  25. Then I find my hot hand in Sir Roger's where it has so often and so familiarly lain before, and I hear Sir Roger's voice addressing me.

  26. Algy's morosity has returned tenfold, and he is performing the evolution familiarly known as "pulling your nose to vex your face.

  27. George nodded familiarly to the footman who opened the door.

  28. Familiarly and amicably smiling, she led him into a small, modest drawing-room where were Lois and her father and mother.

  29. The Ingrams' servant smiled upon him as upon an old and familiarly respected friend.

  30. It is becoming the greatest railway centre of Canada, and is familiarly spoken of as the "Chicago of Western Canada.

  31. The frozen, snowy plains and lakes were crossed in winter by the serviceable sledge drawn by Eskimo dogs, familiarly called "Eskies" or "Huskies.

  32. These Indians, known familiarly as the "Stonies," have greatly diminished in numbers since the time of Alexander Henry, jun.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "familiarly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    commonly; favorably; friendly; heartily; intimately; naturally; offhand; plainly; pleasantly; simply; warmly