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Example sentences for "cleverly"

Lexicographically close words:
cles; clever; cleverer; cleverest; cleverish; cleverness; clevis; clew; clewed; clewing
  1. Now there's one thing I don't cleverly understand.

  2. The folks looked staggered, and wondered a little grain how it was done so cleverly in short metre.

  3. The moving figures were very cleverly managed; and, to judge from the shouts of laughter which accompanied the storyteller in his tale, it must have been a very amusing one.

  4. They know either how shallow these girls are or how cleverly hypocritical.

  5. But I do say this: unless a man can talk of his trouble as cleverly as Carlyle--and some of the choice dyspeptics I know can almost do that--I want them not to talk at all.

  6. A FEW MEN WHO BORE US THE SELF-MADE MAN Somebody has cleverly defined a bore as "a man who talks so much about himself that I never can get a chance to talk about myself.

  7. This crowbar, which I used cleverly enough, opened out a little air between the bodies I moved, and I economized my breath.

  8. Madame la Comtesse Ferraud stepped out in a dress which, though simple, was cleverly designed to show how youthful her figure was.

  9. She is doing every thing about the estate almost as cleverly as you would do it yourself.

  10. Determined that he should not profit by his baseness, I cleverly walked round behind the glass, intending to seize him and give him a thorough shaking; but there I found nothing!

  11. Ferguson very cleverly compares such a valuation of national wealth to that of a miser.

  12. Before the predominance of the Mercantile System, Montchrétien very cleverly called all trades: parcelles et fragments de cette sagesse divine que Dieu nous communique par le moyen de la raisen.

  13. It has every arrangement and comfort possible for the welfare of its child inmates, including an open-air bedroom, cleverly contrived from an old greenhouse for the use of those among them whose lungs are weakly.

  14. It was cleverly done, and the audience showed its appreciation by outspoken comments.

  15. A criminal, I remembered, is somebody against whom everything he says and does is very cleverly made use of.

  16. Sydney followed, and lifted her mount so cleverly that he had leaped his first hurdle before he knew what he was doing.

  17. Leaning over the right side of the horse she dexterously pulled apart the top rails where they crossed, and Johnny cleverly stepped back in time to avoid their hitting his legs in their fall.

  18. All were persuaded that he would break down in this undertaking, but he negotiated it so cleverly that he completed the work to the utmost satisfaction of those concerned.

  19. It was cleverly said by the New York Herald that "railway communications corrupt good Mormons," to which President Young is stated to have replied that "he did not care anything for a religion which could not stand a railroad.

  20. John" quickly and cleverly guts the fish and cuts off its head; then cuts it into chunks, which are boiled, first in salt and afterwards in fresh water.

  21. In short, his little machine will be so cleverly constructed, so nicely arranged, all its little wheels will play so well, that there will be nothing left for you but to open the door and usher him out with the most humble apologies.

  22. The adaptation of the lines had been cleverly done, so the transposition of this character did not greatly injure the play.

  23. Thugut had cleverly prevented Clarke from entering Vienna, because he feared the presence of a republican among the inflammable elements of that city.

  24. To pacify the clamor, however, he invented and printed a number of half-true explanations cleverly adapted to the charges brought, but of a sardonic nature.

  25. He laughed exultantly, as I saw to my chagrin how cleverly I had been tricked.

  26. The whole thing had been most carefully arranged, and the details of the escape were cleverly carried out without a hitch.

  27. The author uses his materials with great ingenuity, his plot is cleverly devised, and he very effectively works up to a striking dénouement.

  28. Truly thrilling and dramatic, Mr Kelly’s book is a cleverly written and absorbing romance.

  29. The story is cleverly constructed, is full of incident with more than a dash of tragedy, and holds the attention of the reader to the close.

  30. A sporting romance which is indisputably cleverly written.

  31. Lovers of the marvellous will enjoy it, for it is cleverly and dramatically written.

  32. A cleverly constructed story about a murder and a gang of diamond robbers.

  33. A good story cleverly told and worked out.

  34. Utterly discomfited, as a boy is by a woman—and Amyʼs trouble had advanced her almost to that proud claim—Bob gathered up his traps and scuttled cleverly out of sight.

  35. The persons who did not come wrote letters full of incongruities cleverly worded, which I took good care not to point out to him.

  36. He paid for it something like two hundred thousand pounds, whilst the fame of the man who had thus cleverly tricked him spread far and wide.

  37. In the deepening dusk Monsieur Pickard Leberfink very cleverly contrived to entice little Rettel into a small arbour.

  38. Wal, calling to mind the kind of horse he rides, I should say he is about a half-mile off by this time, laughing to find out how cleverly he has fooled you chaps.

  39. He took the Cinderella-like foot in his broad palm and cleverly assisted her in the saddle.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cleverly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ably; competently; deftly; discreetly; efficiently; expertly; featly; guilefully; handily; intelligently; judiciously; knowingly; masterfully; neatly; nimbly; quite; rationally; reasonably; slick; smoothly; superbly; well; wisely