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Example sentences for "heroically"

Lexicographically close words:
heroes; herof; heroic; heroical; heroicall; heroick; heroics; heroin; heroine; heroines
  1. In order to attend to the supreme interests of Gaul, Victoria had heroically curbed her grief.

  2. Obviously the battle of Murfreesboro must be accounted one of the bloodiest struggles of the war, as well as one of the most heroically contested on both sides.

  3. So he heroically and steadfastly refused.

  4. But believe me, child these feeble, wrinkled hands would burn heroically over the slowest fire before they could be raised in voluntary tyranny over you.

  5. Heroically she stowed away her emotions, the old pleasant smile stole back into its home, and with a beaming face and cheerful step she passed into the dining-room.

  6. This so enraged them that they rallied, and charged the enemy more heroically and desperately than has been recorded during the war.

  7. I wish to learn the facts relating to the wounded color-bearer, who, though wounded severely, bore the flag heroically while crawling from the parapet to his retreating or repulsed regiment.

  8. There was Penn, heroically stifling the groans of a wounded spirit, within sound of her sweet voice, and Bythewood so utterly ignorant of his presence there!

  9. From two of these men she has received no word since the war began, and when one speaks of them a shadow steals over her face giving it that stamp of grandeur which grief heroically borne impresses.

  10. He died for the sake of the truth of the message that he lived and so diligently and heroically laboured for--the message of the ineffable love of God for all His children and the bringing of them into the Father's Kingdom.

  11. Heroically he met the fate that he perceived was conspiring to end his career, to wreck his teachings and his influence.

  12. Mrs. Murray was heroically holding herself in command, but the look of pain in her eyes and the pathetic tremor on her lips belied the brave smiles and cheerful words with which she seconded Aunt Frank.

  13. A most effective picture was drawn of the Institute deserted and falling into ruins, so to speak, with Kate heroically struggling to prevent utter collapse.

  14. Eating heroically what she could, she rose to leave.

  15. Jess stuck to her post at the hired piano, and played away heroically throughout the protracted intervals between the acts.

  16. The Baroness laid her finger on her daughter's lips, aggrieved by this complaint, the first blame she had ever uttered of a father so heroically screened by her mother's magnanimous silence.

  17. Adeline is heroically resolved to keep her sufferings to herself.

  18. It was in and around Decatur, Georgia, where the author now lives, that, in the storm and heat of the war, heroically and unflinchingly the women of the South did their duty in helping those in the field.

  19. As he walked away from his sobbing mother, through the war-illuminated village, I never beheld mortal man so handsome, so heroically grand.

  20. Manson had been stricken down in the battle of Resaca whilst heroically leading his men to the capture of the rebel position, and never fully recovered from the injury.

  21. Two months later he died heroically in the battle of Franklin.

  22. Laurie heroically shut his eyes while something was put into his arms.

  23. I shall take the cream and the muffins," added Amy, heroically giving up the articles she most liked.

  24. He heroically resisted the invasion of Edward I of England; but fell, and the liberty of his country perished with him after an independence of 800 years.

  25. The Swiss guards, who heroically defended the king, were inhumanly butchered by the Marsellois.

  26. Crolo (whom she so heroically saved from dishonor) heard of her determination to cross the sea, she begged with much earnestness to accompany her, but this M.

  27. The castle of Volmar was long and heroically defended by the Swedes under Jacob de la Gardie, a son of General Pontus, and Charles Gyllenhielm, an illegitimate son of Charles IX.

  28. Napoleon then evacuated the town in which he had so heroically contended against vastly outnumbering foes, and, after an ineffectual attempt to blow up the fort, succeeded in safely effecting an embarkation.

  29. If I had it now, it could tell of more fire and battle, though short-lived as it was, than many of the flags we see so heroically flaunting at latter-day reunions.

  30. All of which would have read very heroically to the boys of the fourth reader of the next generation, but it was void of sentiment to us as we watched with supreme satisfaction the god of day sink behind the western horizon.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heroically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boldly; daringly; gamely; heroically; intrepidly; manfully; resolutely