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Example sentences for "acutely"

Lexicographically close words:
acuminated; acupuncture; acus; acushla; acute; acuteness; acuter; acutest; acutis; acuto
  1. This being one of the most acutely distressing features of the entire experience I shall forego further details, merely stating that they used a rope.

  2. I have ever since been confined to my room, if not to my couch, in an acutely indisposed state, endeavouring to rid myself of these impairments by recourse to a great variety of panaceas applied both internally and otherwise.

  3. She never instructed or held anything over him; he would have been acutely sensitive to any air of superiority, and immediately antagonized.

  4. He approved of the sachet that Allie used, and he became acutely conscious of the jewels resting in the palm of his left hand.

  5. Of such images there was an army, but of the real Billy, as he was acutely conscious, there was but one.

  6. But of the presence of the general the spy was most acutely conscious.

  7. As well as his mind, his body was now acutely alive and vigilant.

  8. Mr. Sagittarius assumed a look of reverence, and the Prophet realised, more acutely than ever, that even well-born young women can be inquisitive.

  9. He was more of a spectator than an actor on the world's stage, but a well-disposed spectator, acutely susceptible and extraordinarily curious.

  10. For why was he nevertheless so acutely affected by it?

  11. The ear in man and in animals is acutely ticklish, the adequate stimulus being any foreign body, especially a buzzing, insect-like contact.

  12. Old Mole was indifferent to it, and more acutely than ever was he visited by the sense of having nothing in common with them.

  13. He became acutely conscious of his position.

  14. In this zone the struggle for life is fiercest, the interference with natural laws is most extensive, and the physical and emotional wear and tear of the economic contest is most acutely felt.

  15. The tendency of all emotions is to become weaker by repetition, or to be less acutely felt the oftener they are experienced.

  16. In October, 1814, Mary had for several months been undergoing an education, that saved her from all acutely painful emotions of horror and repugnance at her class-mate's equally erroneous and ridiculous conclusions.

  17. The evidence is abundant that Shelley was touched acutely by the shame of his position, during the last days of his sojourn in Carnarvonshire.

  18. The woman of quick temper and vehement emotionality may be presumed to have felt acutely the neglect coming to her from her want of girlish attractiveness.

  19. She felt it so acutely as to feel that she said nothing else.

  20. At no moment of their quaint mutual history are the sexes to be seen standing more acutely divided.

  21. Intensely conscientious, acutely sensitive, and seeing in every change a great potentiality of good or evil, she could not treat such things as mere matters of business.

  22. There was underlying affection between the sisters, but at times each was acutely conscious of the other's shortcomings.

  23. Through his eyes, ears and nostrils he participated acutely in every vibration of the outer world.

  24. But, though the scientific explanation of the phenomenon meant little to him, how acutely he felt its strangeness and how deeply stirring this moment seemed to him!

  25. Miss Dalrymple had spoken in high terms of Winnie's intelligence and culture, little thinking how she was making my mother feel more acutely than ever her own wrongdoing.

  26. My father, at this time in Switzerland, had written to say that he had been suffering acutely from an attack of what he called 'spasms.

  27. I was acutely miserable for at least a fortnight.

  28. There was, as she had more than once acutely remarked, a breeding that is altogether independent either of beauty or wit, and Cleopatra herself might have been utterly without it.

  29. The arches of the main arcade are somewhat acutely pointed, and the mouldings are bold, and resemble first pointed work.

  30. Each arch of the triforium is acutely pointed, and contains two smaller pointed arches within it, each of which has an inner trefoiled arch.

  31. Miss Morland inquired acutely of the postmaster, when she entered--not that she was in active pursuit or need of her, but that the girl's absences now were always a source of suspicious inquiry and speculation.

  32. He went back to the Rue de la Lune; but the sight of the rooms was so acutely painful, that he could not stay in them, and he took a cheap lodging elsewhere in the same street.

  33. I know you, Lucien; you will feel it acutely when you are despised by the very men to whom you offer yourself.

  34. These are in most cases acutely pointed, but no general rule can be given, as much variety in form prevailed at this period.

  35. They felt their wrongs the more acutely by perceiving their rights, and how basely they had been deprived of them by men professing this religion of truth, justice and humanity.

  36. In this tower each side terminates in an acutely pointed gable, from which the roof is carried up, and, meeting in a point, forms a sort of short square spire, such as we still see in some of the churches in Germany.

  37. In all his long life he had never realised so acutely the illimitable space which may divide two human beings.

  38. Sometimes I have felt discouraged, acutely sensible of failure and disappointment.

  39. To feel acutely that things are badly ordered, and to feel that you know what opportunities men and women and boys and girls should have, is not a program of salvation, it is only the impulse toward finding one.

  40. I am struggling hard to get the reins of this six-horse team in my hands and every day I feel more acutely the weight of the responsibility that I bear.

  41. You are acutely conscious of yonder old monster when he is mouthing at you in politics.

  42. Her sympathy was roused so acutely that she slipped over the reflective rebuke she would have addressed to her silly delusion concerning his purpose in speaking of his affairs to a woman.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acutely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.