How To Use Becomingly In A Sentence
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He wore his cloak and swished it behind him most becomingly.
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He would take a woman with beautiful long hair, who could have used some advice about styling it becomingly - and he would butcher it all right off, frequently cutting her hair shorter than men were wearing theirs at the time, cooing about how the long hair wasn't feminine, but a short cut WAS feminine!
Portrait in Blue, by Gabriel Nicolet, 1856-1921
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He had a thick mane of dark hair, usually slicked back but at times becomingly tousled.
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Days later, the Caricom summit's opening session heard Mr Manning's recriminations, unbecomingly and unhelpfully directed at former regional beneficiaries of T & T largesse.
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She blow-dried her hair into slight waves that fell becomingly at her chest, flowing around her bare arms.
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Meanwhile, renewables are becomingly increasingly competitive.
Tina Gerhardt: The Canary in the Coal Mine: Stopping Climate Change - Ted Nace: Climate Hope
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she was becomingly dressed
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What she did know that it had been enough to cause her to slaver most unbecomingly.
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Even very senior officers can beguiled into behaving unbecomingly, cruelly, and destructively while believing they are acting in the best tradition of the service.
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But when I'm in a hurry, I trip unbecomingly over anything that's in my way.
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George Anderson was becomingly modest about his imminent Military Cross, for leading a raid on enemy trenches, killing the sentry, and with a corporal carrying back the body of one of his men.
Letters from the front to go on show at Christ's College, Cambridge
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Her skin was flushed becomingly and her hair flowed against her back in thick silky waves of ebony.
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This sent her into even more dramatic hysterics and she began hiccuping unbecomingly.
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He had a thick mane of dark hair, usually slicked back but at times becomingly tousled.
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He mellow torpedo in setophaga shetland uncrannied unbecomingly our drippiness tomalley and mundanity filmmaker.
Rational Review
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To me it is unintelligible that the full tide of glibbest chatter can be stopped at a moment in the midst of profuse good living, and the Giver thanked becomingly in words of heartfelt praise.
Doctor Thorne
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-- Comp. un-fǣger. fægere, fægre, adv., _beautifully, well, becomingly, according to etiquette_: fægere geþǣgon medoful manig, 1015; þā wæs flet-sittendum fægere gereorded, _becomingly the repast was served_, 1789; Higelāc ongan
Beowulf
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She had shorter graying brown hair that came down to her shoulders and curled becomingly around her face.
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He wore his cloak and swished it behind him most becomingly.
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As Folger Theatre continually reminds us in its sturdily acted, becomingly visual "Henry VIII," history is in the imaginative mind of the conjurer -- in this case, William Shakespeare.
Theater review: Folger Theatre's 'Henry VIII'
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-- Comp. un-fäger. fägere, fägre, adv., _beautifully, well, becomingly, according to etiquette_: fägere geþægon medoful manig, 1015; þâ wäs flet-sittendum fägere gereorded, _becomingly the repast was served_, 1789; Higelâc ongan
Beowulf
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[She takes off wig, fluffs her own hair becomingly, and puts on bonnet, looking every inch a pretty young girl, ready for an automobile ride.]
Jack London Play: The Birth Mark
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Let us walk honestly -- "becomingly," "seemingly" as in the day -- "Men choose the night for their revels, but our night is past, for we are all the children of the light and of the day (1Th
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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She was most becomingly dressed, and betrayed a foot and ancle which for symmetry and "chaussure," might have challenged the Rue Rivoli itself to match it.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete
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Even very senior officers can beguiled into behaving unbecomingly, cruelly, and destructively while believing they are acting in the best tradition of the service.
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To me it is unintelligible that the full tide of glibbest chatter can be stopped at a moment in the midst of profuse good living, and the Given thanked becomingly in words of heartfelt praise.
Doctor Thorne
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I dressed Sylvia in pretty clothes and styled her hair becomingly.
My Sweet Audrina
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Her dress was of blue silk, quite light, and becomingly open at the neck.