dearly
IPA: dˈɪrɫi
adverb
- In a dear or precious manner.
- In a dear or expensive manner.
- At great expense.
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Examples of "dearly" in Sentences
- There, he met Dolge Donovan-Smith, a teacher whom he called his "dearly beloved friend, brother and dad."
- And don't say mine, because even though that will make me smile and love you dearly, that isn't the point.
- Boris, who I love dearly, is furious about the rampant double standards of those dreadful Tabloid Newspapers.
- I, her daughter, tell you that for her every tear, every heart pang, every sigh, _you_ shall pay dearly; _dearly!
- What if there was a telephone to heaven ... and you called your dearly departed, and they said "i'm glad i'm not with you anymore. leave me alone. just leave me alone."
- He spoke for a while, recalling the dearly departed, and then (when all the audience were in the room) said that he would now lead them in the dead man's favourite hymn - Jerusalem.
- Mrs. Manning! she sometimes thought that proud title dearly purchased by listening to his daily criticisms on appearance, language, manners, which had been esteemed stylish enough in their day.
- It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never _can_ be, till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, have sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
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