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Example sentences for "honestly"

Lexicographically close words:
honestate; honeste; honester; honestest; honestie; honesto; honestum; honesty; honey; honeybee
  1. I have nothing to say of those efforts, except that they have been honestly intended.

  2. Among these, one of the greatest, and the chief, is the approbation of those whom we have honestly endeavored to serve.

  3. Make it honestly too: and the money was all made, and he said now he had enough in all conscience, for one man to possess.

  4. We have a comfortable property, as much as anybody ought to desire I know, but we have all worked hard and honestly to get it, and it would be hard to be defrauded of a hundred dollars.

  5. I must leave him to you meanwhile, Mr. Gillon, but I honestly believe it's all talk.

  6. I don't think she'd be safe; honestly I don't!

  7. But I only meant to ask you, Mr. Gillon, whether you honestly and truly think that the Delavoyes won't mind?

  8. That would be a thousand pities," said I, honestly thinking of her wasted time.

  9. If we are to live up to our educational profession, we must look our aim in the face and honestly practise what we believe.

  10. It never does harm for us honestly to confess our own limitations and our ignorance, and that is better than weak materialistic explanations, which after all explain nothing.

  11. From what we can see, his aim was what he honestly believed to be right, as far as his light went; but he sought for no light beyond his own; and his outlook was not so narrow as his application was unintelligent.

  12. As one of the rank and file, I claim only to have honestly contributed my mite.

  13. If the facts connected with this outbreak be honestly faced, it must be rendered clear to any unprejudiced observer that Dr W.

  14. This was honestly lugging in one fable to apologise for another.

  15. The man who holds his opinion the most honestly ought to see the most plainly that his opinion must change.

  16. I thought the colonel had honestly discharged his duty, and even the mighty name of Jackson couldn't make me vote against him.

  17. It is doubtful if a single pool agreement, and their number was infinite, was ever honestly kept.

  18. But these are my first impressions honestly set down; and how they changed, I will set down too.

  19. Regretting but not dismayed, Hannibal worked doggedly, ever planning as to how he might raise honestly the needed money.

  20. And, seeking honestly in their own minds, those pondering could not answer the question satisfactorily, either to judgment or to conscience.

  21. On the other hand, if we frankly and honestly answer the question at hand, curiosity is avoided and the child feels he understands it all.

  22. We took from the mind all question of mystery and surprise by quickly and honestly answering his question.

  23. She honestly tried, honestly studied, and honestly made a success as housekeeper and household manager.

  24. I couldn't honestly answer her off-hand and in my groping I forgot the child and her question.

  25. He brought the gold that you saw on the floor which he had honestly made to give to his old mother--but for a devilish purpose.

  26. I honestly thought I'd die if ever the water came up to my neck.

  27. Perhaps it was all true--perhaps Sonia really had honestly tried, but the doubts would return, for she felt that her sister was quite content to let things remain as they were as long as Olga made no further protest.

  28. I honestly believe this is the traveled road, David; can't you trust me?

  29. But your honestly believing it, doesn't make it ," protested David.

  30. Didn't I honestly believe I was on the right road, when I was like going to perdition all the time?

  31. The one of all others to whom she could go in this trouble was denied her, and his lips were sealed, who would have spoken honestly and without prejudice.

  32. No," said Austen, "I don't honestly think it is.

  33. He regretted, he said, the obvious appeals to prejudice against a railroad corporation that was honestly trying to do its duty-yes, and more than its duty.

  34. The man who means honestly is the best swell I know.

  35. It was as I have said, and if so, you shouldn't hate him because he did the only thing which he honestly could do when he found out his mistake.

  36. When that answer has been given honestly and truly--" "Oh, no doubt.

  37. He was to return to Guestwick again during this autumn; but, to tell honestly the truth in the matter, Lily Dale did not think or care very much for his coming.

  38. The man had loved her honestly and truly,--still did love her, paying her the great homage of bitter grief in that he had lost her.

  39. Gavin tried honestly to weigh those two minds against each other, but could not prevent impulse jumping into one of the scales.

  40. I can honestly say," went on Gavin, as solemnly as if he were making a statement in a court of justice, "that I like you.

  41. Bryan may have taken up this or that particular issue because it sounded like a vote-maker, but none of them represented the least divergence from his course as a whole, which has always been honestly bent in a certain plain direction.

  42. The only man who can say honestly that he is not physically fit is the man who has been told so by a Medical Officer.

  43. But he had been out of work for some time, and was in debt; yet he honestly paid off every dollar he owed, and had over six hundred dollars left.

  44. He could not escape these two conclusions, and whether his father failed or not, he could see no way by which he could honestly bring the twelve hundred dollars in gold to his aid.


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