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Example sentences for "carefully"

Lexicographically close words:
careering; careers; carefree; careful; carefull; carefulness; careles; carelesly; careless; carelesse
  1. It was carefully placed upon a little heap of straw, which at once took fire from it.

  2. Bludoffski shut the door behind them carefully and drew a bolt or two.

  3. Dick slid the coins in his pocket and carefully examined the gold watch.

  4. With a small looking-glass in one hand, and tweezers in the other, he carefully removed the tiniest hairs that he could discover on his cheeks or chin, enduring the pain like a martyr.

  5. Her name appears constantly in the 'Diary,' out of which everything amusing has been carefully expunged.

  6. The pictures and antiquities selected for the Darrell Museum are, of course, to be carefully transported to London--warehoused safely till the gift from owner to nation be legally ratified.

  7. Now if God is all-wise and all-powerful, why need we so carefully instruct Him?

  8. Did she study it carefully and have a reason for her cruel judgment?

  9. Jamie carefully laid the little white leg away in his box of playthings, and then both children went back to the window to watch the drops again.

  10. You, and Grace, and Kate, can accomplish a great deal together; but by all means don't pass judgment till you have carefully examined all the evidence.

  11. Please, dear husband, observe these rules and study every assertion as carefully as though you were in the class.

  12. They were forbidden, except in a few carefully etiquetted forms, the free play of courtship, without which they could not perform their part in the erotic life with full satisfaction either to themselves or their partners.

  13. There was a hayfield, too, and, when spring came, a fence was put all round it and it was carefully divided into strips, so that everyone had a share of the hay.

  14. And when he had listened attentively to this with all his ears, and had carefully pondered it in the deep of his mind, suddenly he showed me a little book which he carried constantly in the fold of his cloak.

  15. The rain-drops were so carefully saved, that, as near as we could manage it, not one was lost in all our ship.

  16. Garth had carefully lifted Natalie into the saddle; and was leading the horse up and down the strip of grass to see how she bore it.

  17. Garth drew a deep breath; and carefully schooled his voice.

  18. He went on with his task, carefully avoiding any notice of her.

  19. During the rest of their stay he carefully avoided them; but Garth was more than once conscious of the venomous little eyes fixed upon him.

  20. He tied old Cy to his stake again; and carefully gathered up what remained of the herbs Rina had cast on the ground.

  21. He brushed the crumbs carefully from his doublet and shook hands.

  22. Yet both detectives had carefully noticed the peculiar characteristics of the Hindoo tongue, and believed that they could imitate it so cleverly as to prevent detection.

  23. For twenty minutes Kilgore's project for outwitting and securing Nick Carter was earnestly discussed, and every detail of the plan carefully laid.

  24. And by carefully following a few directions which I shall now give you.

  25. Nick, who had been carefully examining the gems.

  26. One cannot read a sentence of it without seeing how carefully he had collected his materials, and with what judgment, caution, and sagacity he has compared them and drawn his conclusions.

  27. The writers of Gaelic seem to have carefully avoided bringing into apposition two vowels which belong to different syllables.

  28. Then Rosalie closed the Testament, and, wrapping it carefully in the paper in which it had been kept so many years, she hid it away in the box again.

  29. Then she carefully bolted the caravan door, closed the windows, and crept to her sleeping mother's side.

  30. Their mothers had carefully dressed them in their best clothes, and were watching them down the village street.

  31. Inside were several small parcels carefully tied up in paper.

  32. She tied the locket carefully up in a small parcel, in which she placed the precious letter which her mother had written to her Aunt Lucy, and she concealed the packet inside her dress, tying it round her neck.

  33. Very slowly and carefully he drove, yet the shaking tried Rosalie's mother much.

  34. Rosalie was cautiously admitted, and the door closed carefully after her.

  35. All these parcels were put carefully under the seat in the pony-carriage, and then they drove to Mother Manikin's.

  36. He went carefully down the steps of the caravan, and Rosalie stood at the window, watching him picking his way to the other shows, to which he was carrying the same message of peace.

  37. Looking carefully in front of him the uncle said: "This isn't the city yet.

  38. The spy looked carefully into Klimkov's face, smoothed his mustache, closed his eyes for a minute, and stretched his whole body, so that his bones cracked.

  39. His hair, as a rule carefully and prettily combed behind his ears, lay in disorder over his forehead and temples.

  40. Silent, smiling in embarrassment, he carefully pressed his cousin's hand.

  41. Now as before when walking the streets with the box of goods on his breast, he carefully stepped aside for the passersby, either taking to the middle of the street, or pressing against the walls of the houses.

  42. He harkened to this desire and tested it carefully with an awkward, timorous thought.

  43. Then he walked into the dressing-room, where he stationed himself before the looking-glass and carefully regarded his thin face, grey and angular, with its sharp little nose and narrow lips.

  44. Piotr quickly opened one of the white doors, turned on two electric lights, and carefully scrutinized all the corners of the room.

  45. He took her to walk in the village; carefully helped her down the ravine, and spoke to her in a low voice, opening wide his watery eyes in fear.

  46. Viekov looked around, smiled in embarrassment, then silently and carefully smoothed his clothes.

  47. Then he would carefully question them about what he had been ordered to learn.

  48. Sometimes he carefully touched his forehead, then looked at his fingers and wiped them on his knee.

  49. Here he removed his belt and suspenders, and began to tie them together, at the same time carefully examining the branches over his head.

  50. He carefully and quickly put them back in the same order, scenting something dangerous in them.

  51. The bald spy carefully felt his nose with his thick fingers, and asked quietly: "Who was it he called hybrids?

  52. The Turks--owners of the animals another man had hired to us--rode perched on top of the loads in stoic silence, changing from mule to mule as the hours passed and watching very carefully that no mule should be overtaxed or chilled.

  53. One of these mornings a Turk will choose his Armenian and carefully insult the man's wife or daughter.

  54. Down on to that we lowered Monty's body carefully with leather ropes, and then Rustum Khan's beside him, Rustum Khan receiving Christian burial, as neither he nor his proud ancestors would have preferred.

  55. So we undertook not to wake the lady, and left Will there carefully choosing places, in which the men fell fast asleep almost the minute his back was turned.

  56. Kagig, Will and I, with twenty-five very carefully picked men for each of us, wait for the Turks at the bottom of the road and put up a feint of resistance.

  57. The story of the execution of that plan is best told in the words of the man who carefully supervised its details.

  58. For weeks past he had been carefully watching the big war map of France that hung upon the wall of his office, indicating upon it with tiny pin flags the steady oncoming of the enemy.

  59. It matters not that many of the plans so carefully developed upon the Lorraine were, of necessity, abandoned after the party reached France.

  60. As fast as the freight came pouring out from the holds of the ships it was carted into the warehouses, where it was carefully checked and a receipt sent back to America, noting any shortages or overages.

  61. These were quickly but carefully assigned to definite routes which corresponded in a fashion to those of the more important subway routes.

  62. The quantity of gasoline either in the car's tanks or in the spare containers also was carefully registered.

  63. The plan of withdrawal which had been carefully mapped out at headquarters was implicitly followed--almost to its last details.

  64. Our Red Cross in France did not permit itself to become a waster; even in emergencies which called for a saving of time--no matter at what expense--it carefully watched the outgoing of dollars.

  65. To create it several dozen long barracks--like American Red Cross standard khaki tents--were erected in a carefully planned pattern.

  66. Bins and racks were made of ancient doors and window frames and crates had been carefully fashioned into delivery counters.

  67. To begin with, there were twenty-three bottles of vermouth, straw-jacketed, and carefully stowed.

  68. But you've got into conversation with some smart fellow, who's pumped you carefully without letting you get an inkling of what he's got hold of.

  69. The best artistic skill was employed to produce them, and the printing was carefully attended to, so as to secure the finest effect.

  70. I wound the delicate filament into a little coil, folded it carefully in a bit of paper, and consigned it to a corner in my pocket-book, though not without some misgiving that it too might disappear as did the knife.

  71. Then he cracked the shell of the fruit by striking it on the stony floor, and carefully opened the shell, handing me one of the halves filled with a green fluid.

  72. Science boldly heralds her descriptive discoveries, and as carefully ignores her explanatory failures.

  73. Then carefully thrusting the glass tube downward, he brought the tip of the curve to within about one-half inch of the surface of the brine, when immediately a rapid flow of liquid exhibited itself.

  74. Into one arm of the tube containing the brine I now carefully pour pure water.

  75. Frank nodded and walked down the runway, measuring carefully with his eye the distance he had to go.

  76. He came carefully up to the block, got a good raise and carry, and held his footing when he struck the ground.

  77. From the powerful toe of Mitchell, the right guard on the Warwick eleven, the ball, which he had carefully set at the center of the field, went flying directly between the goal posts.

  78. They stepped carefully and looked on each side of them.

  79. But finally they elected to rush, and settled carefully down to position, balanced on their toes, and alert for the signal.

  80. He led them to pursue him back to a carefully prepared position, where the only point that could be attacked was covered with woods and hedges on either side.

  81. The monuments of Christian art fared no better; the tombs of the emperors were carefully stripped of everything in metal, the altars and screens of the churches scraped to the stone.

  82. To be carefully distinguished from his homonym in Justinian's time.

  83. He takes his time, looking round carefully at every step; presently he spies Enok coming along in the greatest haste.

  84. Sometimes he caps this by wilfully letting it appear that the double move was carefully designed to produce the reverse impression of the first--until the person concerned is utterly bewildered, and the reader likewise.

  85. He had carefully preserved the insurance paper that he could make nothing of.

  86. If the pupils are not familiar with the diacritical marks, they should be carefully taught; such instruction constitutes an excellent drill on articulation, and enables the pupils to use the dictionary with intelligence.

  87. Corn must be carefully cultivated while the plants are small.

  88. Unhesitatingly he stepped on to the swaying board, upon which he could only advance by carefully putting one foot before the other, almost like balancing himself on a tight-rope.

  89. With breathless anxiety Eric scaled the rock, quite unable to see where he was going; but his hands were always outstretched, carefully seeking about him, and now his fingers suddenly came in contact with something soft and warm!

  90. And one needs to look carefully to that when one is seven-and-twenty, she reflected.

  91. It stood there as she had left it, handle down, as carefully placed as if it were a most expensive and important utensil.

  92. Travis dropped upon the shrouded sofa, and Condy set himself carefully down on one of the frail chairs with its spindling golden legs, and they began to talk.

  93. It's ripping good material, and it ought to be handled as carefully as glass.

  94. On the contrary, it is ample in scope, and its well-stored pages are carefully selected by its veteran editor.

  95. But in doing so, we deem it of importance to guard ourselves carefully from misconception.

  96. But the desired result depends, as you see, Venerable Brethren, in great measure on your work and diligence, since the people must be suitably and carefully prepared in order that they may receive the fruits intended.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carefully avoided; carefully considered; carefully removed; carefully studied; carefully watched