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Example sentences for "fatally"

Lexicographically close words:
fatalist; fatalistic; fatalities; fatality; fatall; fate; fated; fateful; fates; fatha
  1. Too fatally easy was it to win her away, to keep her away.

  2. Discreetly he told of the fatal tradition, that the settled conviction of generations had brought men fatally to uphold and abet.

  3. Worthy of reverence that piece of clay was, for its loyal alliance with a high soul; wonderful as a noble and true representative; very sacred from the record of devotion scored deep, so fatally deep.

  4. The king was still determined to rush forward in the same course in which he was already, by his precipitate career, so fatally advanced.

  5. These suggestions happened fatally to concur with all the inclinations and prejudices of the king; his desire of more extensive authority, his propensity to the Catholic religion, his avidity for money.

  6. There are wretches fatally doomed to misery.

  7. Several were fatally injured in such attacks, being found dying and even dead behind their counters.

  8. The hero then crossed over to Libya, where he engaged in a wrestling-match with king Anteos, son of Poseidon and Gæa, which terminated fatally for his antagonist.

  9. While he was quietly examining it, astonished that so small and insignificant an object should be productive of such serious results, the arrow fell upon his foot and fatally wounded him.

  10. Feeling herself fatally wounded, she remembered the desecration of the dead body of Hector, and earnestly entreated the forbearance of the hero.

  11. The challenge was readily accepted, and in the duel which took place outside the city walls, in the sight of the rival forces, Eteocles and Polynices were both fatally wounded and expired on the field of battle.

  12. In one of the earlier London plagues, that of 1563, Jones saw a case of a woman near Temple Bar that ended fatally at the third attack, the buboes having suppurated twice, but not at the third time.

  13. The king consulted General Gage, who was fresh from Boston, and listened eagerly to his fatally mistaken account of the situation.

  14. But though a braver man than Bernard and more public-spirited, his methods were equally underhanded, and he fatally mistook the capacity of his countrymen to govern themselves.

  15. With laurels some have fatally been crowned; } Some, who the depths of eloquence have found, } In that unnavigable stream were drowned.

  16. The horse was fatally injured and had to be shot, so our friends, with one horse between them, took turns riding and walking to camp.

  17. One slightly wounded animal, he said, would create more uneasiness among the herd than ten dead or fatally wounded ones.

  18. He was dismissed with a fresh horse; the insult was concealed from the Imperial troops; but in two successive battles they were more fatally instructed of the prowess of their adversaries.

  19. The hopes of Mahomet were fatally disappointed.

  20. That precious, useful lounge, so fatally denied to the wearied spine of many a growing girl, was here permitted.

  21. He had, by a single blow, fatally mutilated the system which was the pride and glory of their nation: it was ungenerous to remind them of his triumph.

  22. Whether the old man lived or whether he died, his literary labors were fatally interrupted in either case; and one of the consequences would be the termination of her employment at the Museum.

  23. The sentry, on perceiving his mistake, gave the alarm; the wounded chieftain was carried to his home, where an examination of his wound by the surgeons disclosed the fact that he had been fatally wounded.

  24. Two of the deputies were fatally wounded and seven members of the posse more or less severely.

  25. The Italian opened fire upon the two Hatfields, fatally wounded both, and was himself instantly killed, riddled with bullets from the dying men.

  26. Attempting to escape by running around a house, Gambriel was fired upon from another quarter and fatally wounded.

  27. The infallible magisterium of the church would be fatally compromised if the faithful were commanded by lawful authority to give interior assent to a false doctrine.

  28. The injury had been received at Sorel; its terrible effects were fatally experienced at a place near the Ottawa, since named Richmond.

  29. Whilst on a tour of inspection in the Upper Province, he had been fatally attacked with hydrophobia, occasioned by the bite of a pet fox.

  30. On our right we have the site of the magazine which so fatally exploded in 1813; we learn from Gen.

  31. If it had resulted fatally a year and a half ago, what would I have gained?

  32. He was an old man, he was fatally ill, he was through with life.

  33. But, over and above all this, universal experience has declared that the use of opium is fatally hostile to any very protracted mental power.

  34. There is no faltering, no hesitation, no discursiveness; the arrow flies swiftly and fatally to the mark.

  35. I had learned to throw the short lance, or the javelin of the savage, with a dexterity like his own; and, ere they could approach me, I had fatally struck with these darts two of their most valiant warriors.

  36. He was then, in fact, excluded from the house of council, as incurring the suspicion of the red-men as fatally friendly to the whites.

  37. Taken so horribly unawares, even Raffles must fall an easy prey to a desperado in resource and courage scarcely second to himself, but one whom he had fatally underrated from the beginning.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fatally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afterwards; anon; hopefully; later; manana; probably; severely; soon