They are a newly married couple.
That is a newly acquired habit.
Here is where we keep the newly arrived merchandise.
The room is newly painted.
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The newly added joins Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska and Utah.—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 16 Dec. 2025 Its 20th-century crash, 21st-century rebound and feared future rendezvous with newly invading predators is perhaps the clearest allegory nature has provided for the never-ending struggle to restore equilibrium to a great river that America dammed and then pushed to its limits.—Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025 The newly redrawn congressional map could give Republicans five additional House seats, after a lower court found that some of the new voting lines were racially discriminatory.—S.e. Jenkins, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025 Thailand suspended it last month after a Thai soldier was maimed by a landmine, one of many that Bangkok says were newly laid by Cambodia.—CNN Money, 13 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for newly
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of newly was
before the 12th century
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