Example Sentences

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Church’s phrase “this glorious country,” which Ms. Johnson has felicitously chosen for her title, refers not jingoistically to the U.S. but to the beauty of the countryside around his upstate farm.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Life as an unending novelty act was handled so much more felicitously by John Kander and Fred Ebb in “Chicago.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2022

It was only in 1967, in the felicitously named Loving vs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2020

But most of the other places have switched, I think quite felicitously, to brisket.

From Salon • May 25, 2019

On one level this was natural and something to which Ned had become accustomed, for both women were great beauties, Gertie slim and dark, Julia tall and felicitously proportioned.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson