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Example sentences for "handily"

Lexicographically close words:
handicrafts; handicraftsman; handicraftsmen; handier; handiest; handiness; handing; handis; handiwork; handkercher
  1. Clemens occasionally planned excursions to Bermuda and other places; but, remembering the billiard-table, which he could not handily take along, he abandoned these projects.

  2. Tell Harmony that I do hold the baby, and do it pretty handily too, though with occasional apprehensions that his loose head will fall off.

  3. If I could kill the first handily when I was not expecting him, I can kill all the rest the same way when I know what is coming.

  4. The lad vaulted the fence handily when Selinus was not three yards from him and the brute pawed angrily at the palings and bit them viciously.

  5. Commodus killed the second as handily as the first.

  6. If too thick to stir handily thin with a little milk or boiling water.

  7. The work was done handily and cheaply by the labor-saving plan of hitching a locomotive to a plough.

  8. As the Japanese said, it was this "flying telephone" that enabled Oyama to manipulate his forces as handily as though he were playing a game of chess.

  9. I've done told ye why I kain't handily do hit myself.

  10. I didn't nuver think of him, but I reckon Sim couldn't handily spare ther time from his own farm.

  11. He did not know about Janus, but he did know about saloons that are handily adjacent to union depots.

  12. I cannot see that we are either through it handily or through it at all.

  13. To beat a performer like Hodge as handily as he did to-day makes Old Rosebud one of the champion three-year olds of all time.

  14. Riley won handily by a length and a half, Bill Letcher second and a length in front of Robespierre third, Palisade fourth, Prince Fonso, fifth, Outlook sixth.

  15. He swerved badly at the head of the stretch and seemed like he wanted to go out, but won quite handily at the finish.

  16. Deities would never be able to move about handily in any country.

  17. Handily situated, at your very elbow, is opportunity for this.

  18. The General had no English; he told us all this in German, Von Theobald standing handily by to translate for him when our own scanty acquaintance with the language left us puzzled.

  19. In spite of Joe's six-shooter laid handily upon the table beside his plate, Casey ate heartily, though the food was neither well cooked nor over plentiful.

  20. He did not know who was making Indian war on peaceful prospectors, but Casey felt that they were already as good as licked, since he was here with breakfast under his belt and his six-shooter tucked handily inside his waistband.

  21. Hang large specimen up by cord tied about loins, the more handily to finish the skinning.

  22. Screw upon back of neck base-board a one by three inch piece with free end dropping a few inches below bottom of base-board so that head may be handily set in a vise.

  23. Crustaceans may be killed most handily with chloroform.

  24. For the tail cut one wire of a length to go half way through the body and leave enough protruding to allow of handily setting tail into position.

  25. The next step in handily skinning a mammal is to peel out the feet through their incisions, severing toes at base and leaving them complete in the skin.

  26. Very carefully he laid his pipe aside and very carefully he got upon his feet, jouncing his charge soothingly up and down, and with deftness he committed her small person to the crib that stood handily by.

  27. He reached into a gaping side pocket of his coat for his corncob pipe, but forgot to charge the fire-blackened bowl from the tobacco cannister that stood handily upon his desk.

  28. He could plough and reap, dig and mow, put up fences and huts, break in horses and drive bullocks; he could milk cows and help in the dairy as handily as a woman.

  29. The soil of the land so handily situated was better than their own, and, as an adjoining farm, could be managed without additional expense.

  30. First-class paint and varnish stock is more handily worked and will cover more surface than inferior stock, and judged from any point of view one may elect it is the most economical material to buy.

  31. The steel scraper, handily wielded, will then remove all remaining evidences of the stains.

  32. The letters may be shaded quite as handily as other styles.

  33. The best profits to be gleaned from this class of work are realized when the room space will admit of locating the job in a position where it can be handily worked at without much unhanging, and where plenty of light may be secured.

  34. These were handily moved from point to point, but, as there was no tail rope, several men had to be used to pull the cable back to the face.

  35. This enabled the men to reach handily all parts of the seven leading rings.

  36. Now, of the whole lot the Halifax was the best, and our government had had an eye on her for some time, for she had in her the making of a good gun-boat, and would have come up very handily to blockading requirements.

  37. There was the usual preliminary roar, proceeding by staccato jet and pit-a-pat to smooth pulsing motion, as the jitney glided out handily into the multifarious traffic of the street.

  38. Putting one gloved hand on the brace of the buggy-top, Lady Frances, from the slight eminence of the platform-end, reached handily the iron step of the buggy and raised herself halely to the cushioned seat.

  39. The inner pith of the royal palm came in handily for this purpose when our supply of cigarette paper gave out.

  40. The first aid bandages came in handily on the field and were used to advantage.


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