Example Sentences

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But around 20 years ago, the superhero industrial complex rejected camp, becoming dark and gritty, then sarcastic and flip, then cycling back to wholesomely earnest again for a time.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2024

The Anderson of “Love, Pamela” is more wholesomely free-spirited than the one who lives in popular memory.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2023

In this, we see an uncannily convincing, and wholesomely handsome rendition of Jackson with his natural skin tone, a pencil-thin mustache on his lip and an ever-so-lightly relaxed puff of hair on his head.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2018

And naturally social media was swamped with our celebrity friends demonstrating just how down-to-earth and wholesomely they celebrated the holiday.

From Time • Nov. 27, 2014

His skin is pale and looks un- wholesomely tender, like the skin under a scab.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood