Comely in a sentence as an adjective

Families were forced to sell their comely sons and virgin daughters, and cities their votive offerings, pictures, and sacred statues.

Of all the fantasies I've ever heard which involve a hotel room, a comely young lady, fifteen thousand dollars and all-you-can-drink cranberry juice, that's the dullest, I'm sorry.

The TSA's PR problems are mainly related to rarer-that-30% outrages like selecting comely young women for pornoscanning, interfering with uncommon medical equipment, etc.

For instance: cuticle, paean, echelon, emaciated, heinous, comely, disreputable, hearth, dearth, contumely, beatify, subsequent, etc.

As Louis Sullivan said in 1892:‘I should say that it would be greatly for the aesthetic good if we should refrain entirely from the use of ornament for a period of years, in order that our thoughts might concentrate acutely upon the production of building well formed and comely in the nude.

Comely definitions

adjective

according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"

See also: becoming decent decorous seemly

adjective

very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"

See also: bonny bonnie fair sightly