Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sweetly
IPA transcription: [sw'itli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: sweetly, sweet
    Meaning: in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'); "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare; "talking sweet to each other"
Usage examples
  • I'll help you," she added sweetly.
  • She said sweetly, "Are you in charge of this room?
  • Ah! if you were my child, I would dress you sweetly, you dear little thing!"
  • The dolls took turns doing this, and heard the shell sing softly and very sweetly.
  • "My friends all think so," returned Julia sweetly, "but never mind now about my amusing qualities, Edna.
  • "Skirt flounced to the waist are so very pretty and dressy, and you would look sweetly in them, but I notice you don't wear them at all.
  • However, I was not going to disagree with her any more, and only said: "How sweetly you talk, Yoletta; you are as wise as you are beautiful.
  • We knew that the ice was in awful upheaval around us; we heard, as our eyelids sweetly closed, the slow booming of distant guns, and brittle cracklings of artillery.
  • 'There is room for all; and if you will leave us the books, we will cheerfully yield the baseball, boating, dancing, and flirting, which seem to be the branches you prefer,' answered Alice sweetly.
  • The gentle murmur of old ocean came pleasantly to her ear, and sweetly in her mind arose the thought of Him whom even the winds and the sea obey; of His never failing love to her, and of the many great and precious promises of His word.