How to use "wholly" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "wholly" in popular movie and book plots

  • While Frédéric is away one night, he forces himself on the not wholly unwilling Christiane and at breakfast tells Frédéric.  - Diabolically Yours
  • A man whom she finds herself falling in love with despite not wholly trusting.  - Mind Game (novel)
  • After a trial and under threat of the most dire torture, Maria, wholly innocent of the crime, confesses.  - The Amber Witch
  • Mompellion succumbs wholly to grief and the total loss of his faith in God.  - Year of Wonders
  • Though the purpose of this private army is never wholly specified, a general sense of sinister intent is established.  - Land of the Free (film)
  • A wholly fictional MacNeill performs trepanation on an accident victim and studies trachoma in the local population.  - Christy (novel)
  • This agreement remains wholly unknown to Tokubei until his uncle tries to force him into the marriage.  - The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
  • Like Sir Gawain in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Norman Kent takes on threats made to his Lord, wholly and without reservation.  - The Last Hero (The Saint)
  • Rochester receives another unexpected and not wholly welcome guest.  - Jane Eyre (2006 miniseries)
  • Sanchez is ousted and executed in a coup engineered by Walker, who establishes a regime wholly beholden to the company.  - Burn!
  • He falls for Akira, in Nanako's body, and wholly accepts the body exchange.  - Your and My Secret
  • In the final scene, Tony has become wholly dependent on Barrett, and Susan is exiled permanently from the house.  - The Servant (1963 film)
  • He 'reveals' the nuptials had been a sham and says if they now go ahead it is wholly due to Davus' good advice.  - Andria (comedy)
  • In only a very few episodes is Lydia not present, those being wholly escapades of Beetlejuice in the Neitherworld.  - Beetlejuice (TV series)
  • This is not without exceptions, given that "Some attain this wisdom through wholly different means".  - The Animatrix
  • The partially domed city is wholly controlled by the monopolistic Paradigm Corporation, resulting in a corporate police state.  - The Big O

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