Example Sentences

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The sun and the light had disappeared from the sky and the heavens had grown augustly gray.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

The album opens augustly, with Kris Kristofferson intoning the words to “Forever,” an eight-line poem that Cash wrote in 2003, just weeks before he died.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2018

Their community was Summerlin, a 35-square-mile collection of palm-tree-lined golf courses, $600,000-plus homes and augustly named neighborhoods: Reverence and the Summit, Affinity and Chardonnay.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2017

Notice how augustly the patriotic hero takes his seat in a pew next to his sanely amused, age-appropriate wife, Clemmie, at the wedding of the young Princess Elizabeth to Lt.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2016

Side by side with Mrs. Earle at the head of a delegation of twenty Benham women she marched augustly into the committee chamber.

From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert