Example Sentences

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Six shirtless men, all of them Indonesian, gather on the Chang Tai’s stern, gesturing friendlily and looking comforted to see another human being so far from land.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021

Sure, the dictionary says we can use lame adverbs like uglily, friendlily, surlily, and jollily, but nobody says we have to.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

"If I were you, I'd not speak as friendlily as you did this morning—not before people."

From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham

And yet the busy men found time to greet him friendlily: "H'are you!" they said, genially.

From Half Portions by Ferber, Edna

Burroughs laid his hand friendlily but heavily upon the young man's shoulder.

From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham