Example Sentences

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But that "view is becomingly increasingly difficult to defend," he said last week after data showed weekly new claims for unemployment benefits hit their lowest level since February.

From Reuters • Aug. 4, 2023

“I wasn’t behaving very becomingly in those days,” she said.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2019

Versace, who was already conjuring the imagery of classical goddesses with his becomingly draped dresses, created the perfect women to wear them.

From The Guardian • Sep. 22, 2017

So in a way she’s playing herself, most becomingly.

From Time • Feb. 21, 2012

She is dressed in black with a scarf of old black lace knotted becomingly round her throat, and a bunch of violets nestles in the folds.

From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Black, Helen C.