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Example sentences for "aptly"

Lexicographically close words:
apterous; aptest; aptitude; aptitudes; aptlie; aptness; aptum; aptus; apud; aqua
  1. Most aptly has this thought been expressed in the lines with which Goethe welcomed the appearance of F.

  2. From these I might aptly select some one, and confine myself to its development.

  3. And this arraignment was aptly followed by the damning words, that “a Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

  4. It may be aptly added, that this Khaleefeh was, in the beginning of his reign, an unjust monarch; and as he thus bore some slight resemblance to our Shahriyar, so was he reclaimed to a sense of his duty by means somewhat similar.

  5. The following observation, selected from several of a similar nature in my work on the Modern Egyptians, aptly illustrates the passage to which this note immediately refers.

  6. The burial-grounds of Eastern cities are generally so extensive, that, with the varied structures which they contain, they may aptly be called "Cities of the Dead.

  7. Most of the descriptions of interior domestic architecture which occur in the present work, I may aptly illustrate by availing myself of observations made in Cairo.

  8. The practice mentioned in the passage to which this note refers is aptly illustrated in El-Ma[k.

  9. Hitzig aptly quotes Demosthenes: "If they cannot face the candle, what will they do when they see the sun?

  10. The hot zeal with which the people wantonly plunged into a sensual idolatry is aptly set forth in the figure of the next verse.

  11. The feeling of the stricken conscience could hardly be more aptly expressed than by this brief question.

  12. This is perfectly clear, and the circumstances supposed are aptly illustrative of Proudhon's point.

  13. Mark this a little more fully, for what can be more aptly illustrative of the Commissioners’ argument?

  14. I cannot resist the temptation to add a few words more from the Bishop’s work, so aptly do they meet many of the popular prejudices and fallacies pervading the unreflecting or intolerant public mind at the present time.

  15. The Jura has been aptly described as a huge plateau about 156 m.

  16. These bands were branches of a newly-discovered carnivorous plant which had been aptly named the 'land octopus.

  17. This gnomic poetry (The Wisdom of the Brahman) has been aptly said to recall at times the ripeness of the mature Goethe and at other times--Polonius.

  18. The iron-horse, as my little sister aptly remarks in her composition On Nature, is never heard to shriek in our midst; and on the whole I am glad of it.

  19. But this literary business, as the gentleman who married his colored chambermaid aptly observed, "is simply a matter of taste.

  20. The reporter of the Standard newspaper, describing his first lecture in London, aptly said: "Artemus dropped his jokes faster than the meteors of last night succeeded each other in the sky.

  21. Very rightly and aptly doth Chrysostom write against these men.

  22. For the formation of things at first was different from their generation after; and although it had nothing to precede it, was aptly contrived for that which should succeed it.

  23. Whose faculties if they can aptly contrive their matter, they beget in the subject an agreeable and pleasing beauty; if over-ruled thereby, they evidence not their perfections, but run into deformity.

  24. Sir Monier Williams aptly remarks,—“Common sense tells an Englishman that he really exists himself and that everything he sees around him really exists also.

  25. So that the Apostle Paul aptly urges the Philippian Christians (Phil.

  26. But there is a small and growing party of the soil who have aptly learned many of the lessons taught them by the rulers.

  27. Robson aptly remarks that “while no religion has done more to overthrow other religions than Christianity, no religious teacher has said less against other religions than Christ.

  28. As one has aptly remarked, the seat of other religions may be in the mind; the seat of Hinduism is preëminently in the stomach.

  29. I passed athwart the bard, and drew me near, That it might stand more aptly for my view.

  30. He lives in that "quiet despair" that Thoreau so aptly describes as the life of the average man, and he seeks escape from it in smoking, in belonging to a variety of fraternal organizations, in the movies and the detective story.

  31. Here Montaigne's wisdom aptly expresses itself: "We deride ourselves a hundred times when we mock our neighbor.

  32. Everything seems to me clearly stated and all points aptly illustrated with good examples.

  33. The modern trick of wide spacing often lends itself aptly to the swing and freedom of the swashed and flourished lines of Script, as may be seen in figure 207.

  34. I think that you may aptly apply to Paraguay what was said of Germany by Tacitus, De Moribus Germanorum: Argentum et aurum propitii, an irati Dii negaverint, dubito.

  35. As you have so aptly said, the necessities of war are paramount, alcalde.

  36. Finally, along the coast to the northward, they descried those chalk cliffs which Francis Drake had aptly named New Albion, and still beyond, what seemed to be the mouth of an inlet.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aptly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ably; competently; deftly; efficiently; expertly; featly; handily; masterfully; neatly; nimbly; properly; right; superbly; well