Example Sentences

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In Natalie McNab's living room in County Durham, a coal fire glows cosily.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2022

That might feel both anachronistic and out of step with this cosily privileged and rather self-obsessed character.

From The Guardian • Nov. 28, 2018

Here, cosily sipping hot chocolate while the shoppers pound the streets below, you might be inclined to agree it is.

From The Guardian • Dec. 11, 2010

Astronomers are cosily familiar with stars quadrillions of miles from the earth, and with galaxies much more distant.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let us suppose that it is winter, and that we are all cosily seated around the blazing fireplace.

From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by Kennedy, W. Sloane