[
US
/ˈswitɫi/
]
[ UK /swˈiːtli/ ]
[ UK /swˈiːtli/ ]
ADVERB
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in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')
Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly
talking sweet to each other
how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank
How To Use sweetly In A Sentence
- The predatory player ran through to finish sweetly.
- The haze of summer hung sweetly over the opening. Times, Sunday Times
- One man, newly married, notes on his blog: My wife sees me watching TV and calls my name sweetly, patting her lap, ‘Come on,’ she calls. Taken to the cleaners » Japundit Blog
- She raised her small gloved fist, yawned ever so gently, tiptapping her small gloved fist on her opening mouth and smiled tinily, sweetly. Ulysses
- Not if you're bridle-wise, Captain Selwyn," she returned sweetly. The Younger Set
- This is sweetly sentimental suburbanism. Globe and Mail
- There she was, my angel, smiling back at me ever so sweetly.
- ‘Thank you, Father,’ she replied sweetly as the carriage pulled to a stop and the coachman announced their arrival.
- She died a year ago: sweetly and softly, while sitting in a chair in the lounge of her residential care home just after the tea trolley has passed by.
- Rather, what makes this group special is the way it forges a sweetly concordant sound from a set of significantly different voice types. Anonymous 4's unique gifts shine in 'Noel' concert
