How To Use Sumptuously In A Sentence
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The hallway was large, dimly lit, and sumptuously decorated, with a magnificent carpet covering most of the stone floor.
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He goes into the _penetralia_ of your life, -- not presumptuously, but with uncovered head, unsandalled feet, and pours libations at the innermost shrine.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
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That evening they fared sumptuously upon venison, and as on the previous day lay down to rest in a little "boma" or fence made of boughs.
Benita, an African romance
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But when it is all ready for the market, the small dealers, "put blue into their line", and outdare each other in azure feats by which they secure great popularity, and, as a result, fare sumptuously; while he who fished the murex up was unrecognized, and fed, perhaps, on porridge.
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
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he presumptuously overstepped the doctor's orders
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The front door opens into a sumptuously oak-panelled entrance hall with a staircase leading out of one corner.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vehicles of many and strange sorts were drawn up in the shade of a chenar, under whose wide branches the Baines family was faring sumptuously on biscuits and brandy and water.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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this government building is sumptuously appointed
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The apartment was sumptuously furnished in two colors -- amber and lazulite.
Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch
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He shall presumptuously contest an inch with me.
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He does not wear his silks and sables to accurately represent his status, nor does he dress sumptuously to insidiously advance himself.
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On either of these unsavory dishes, with a biscuit and a glass or two of Rhine wine, he cared not how sour, he called feasting sumptuously.
Stories of Authors, British and American
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This is a sumptuously filmed series and the commentary is informed and well read.
Times, Sunday Times
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That was the reason why they and their children had been all their lives on the verge of starvation and nakedness, whilst their 'betters' -- who did nothing but the thinking -- went clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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The rooms are sumptuously furnished with fine art and decoration.
Times, Sunday Times
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You must admire the new dresses of the ladies, who are radiantly and sumptuously attired “in flaming purple and refulgent gold,” their ornaments likewise of gold, silver, and all manner of precious stones; for the daughters of Israel are, as on bridal days, all begemmed, bejewelled, and diamonded, stuck over with gems as thick as stars “seen in the galaxy or milky-way.”
Travels in Morocco
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Poised on the edge of her seat, a wriggle backwards would put Ahern's tiny frame in danger of being swallowed by the sumptuously plush green sofa.
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The little orchestra was playing a minuet when she began to descend the sumptuously draped stairs.
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Presentation Packs - Special Stamps and information pack in one, sumptuously illustrated in full colour.
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Even the most sumptuously set dinners today pale in comparison to those that included such objects as the magnificent monteith and wine cistern illustrated on this page, creations of early English silversmiths.
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The property is sumptuously decorated in Moorish style throughout, with mosaic-tiled fountains and elegant colonnades, jewelled lanterns, an octagonal dining pavilion and a domed mirador.
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There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
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Next is a sumptuously textured, very abstract picture of three katsinas whose blurry appearance represents the intermediary between the spiritual and physical world.
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T sumptuously stock nasdaq on the busybodied liability the antigone sphacele, upstairs the voicer upscale conspicuously grandmother of the syracuse of the trolling.
Rational Review
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This is a sumptuously filmed series and the commentary is informed and well read.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rooms are sumptuously furnished with fine art and decoration.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inside, the public rooms were sumptuously decorated in the florid style of old Venice with arching, beamed ceilings, sconced walls covered with opulent moire silks, and lush color everywhere - the wholly Venetian shades of blue, green, yellow and burnt orange.
The Kaisho
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Two grand staircases frame the 50m long ramp, sumptuously sculpted with coiled dragons, marking the imperial emblem.
