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Example sentences for "measurably"

Lexicographically close words:
meas; measles; measly; measter; measurable; measure; measured; measureless; measurement; measurements
  1. Must be in 'Frisco," said the agent who had been sent down to see that every man was furnished with clothing and money at the company's expense, and sent on his way measurably comforted.

  2. We believe that our ideals should be high, but not so high as to make it impossible measurably to realize them.

  3. They are now living at peace with the whites, and conducting themselves measurably well.

  4. Though there is but little really good land in this reservation, many of the Indians, by reason of their industry, have succeeded measurably in their farming operations, and may be considered as self-sustaining.

  5. The sciences and the arts are held as a joint stock among these peoples, in their elements, and measurably also in their working-out.

  6. We are measurably superior to the French in some things, but they are immeasurably our betters in others.

  7. The ground ought to be measurably sacred by this time, one would think.

  8. As long as it was measurably respected, the colored people made rapid strides in education, wealth, character and self-respect.

  9. Something had to be done to give him measurably congenial occupation.

  10. Tragedy, then, as handed down to the eighteenth century, was not a fixed and definite form, though measurably more so than a century before.

  11. The laws of the pseudo-classicists were held to be measurably good, but Shakespeare without those laws had been undeniably great.

  12. The exercise of their bodies causes a continual waste which demands incessant reparation, and they are governed measurably by these animal impulses.

  13. Throughout the London season, and measurably throughout the London year, there is an incessant appeal to the curiosity of the common people which is never made in vain.

  14. Natural woman was measurably (that is, a capacity of being measured) restored to the world.

  15. More hopeless, because the virility of savagery has measurably gone out of it.

  16. It steadily speculates in this direction, and some of the highest triumphs of our age, in physical as well as metaphysical science, are measurably due to this tendency.

  17. And the same is measurably true of animal life.

  18. And what is true of the types is measurably true of the classes within the types, as well as of the orders within the classes.

  19. Direct inquiries were futile, the responses indicating that the entire subject is foreign to the thought of the tribe; but three sporadic and measurably incongruous examples of quasi adoption are worthy of record.

  20. This instability grows largely out of the fact that the essential unit is the clan, and that the tribe is nothing more than a lax aggregation; and it is measurably explained by the crude customs accompanying the choice of leaders.

  21. Commonly the process of painting is measurably cooperative.

  22. FAUNA Considered collectively, the fauna of the Sonoran province is measurably distinctive (though less so than the flora), especially in the habits of the organisms.

  23. Although measurably similar to Central American and South American types of water-craft, the Seri balsa is a notably distinct type for its region.

  24. It is but natural that these extreme factors of environment should be measurably reflected in pronounced characteristics on the part of the inhabitants.

  25. Now, the Seri blood-craze seems measurably distinct in two ways: in the first place, it expresses a more profound and bitter enmity toward aliens than is found among most savage tribes—i.

  26. Surely I may measurably adopt the language of Paul, when with holy triumph he exclaimed: 'By the grace of God I am what I am.

  27. My soul has measurably stood in the stead of the poor slave, and my earnest prayers have been poured out that the Lord would be pleased to permit me to be instrumental of good to these degraded, oppressed, and suffering fellow-creatures.

  28. It was measurably the same within the church, but it was not quite the same in the reserves I was obliged to make, the reefs I was obliged to take in my rapture.

  29. In the seating Blount meant to make sure of having a measurably undisturbed evening with Patricia.

  30. While they blend and are measurably involved with thaumaturgic devices, there are indications that in a general way the three devices stand for stages in the development of law.

  31. So far as it extends, the crude graphic symbolism betokens warlike habit and militant organization, which were doubtless measurably inimical to further progress.

  32. All of the movements were consistent and, despite intertribal friction and strife, measurably harmonious.

  33. These drawbacks to health and comfort in travelling are measurably avoided when journeying in or to the Northwest during the season of navigation.

  34. He said: "The consequences apprehended, when the deposit act of the last session received a reluctant approval, have been measurably realized.

  35. By preventing the extension of the credit system, it measurably cut off the means of speculation, and retarded its progress in monopolizing the most valuable of the public lands.

  36. Proctor's stopping the fits, by threats to thrash the girl, intimates that the fits were measurably controllable by the will of some one.

  37. But the powers always resided in living forms which he detected and measurably learned to educe and control.

  38. Mediumistic proclivities run much in families, about as much as musical ones do; and the capabilities for either mediumistic or musical performances are measurably constitutional and transmissible.

  39. Mediumistic capabilities are innate peculiarities, measurably hereditary, and nearly always amenable to special conditions and surroundings for conspicuous development.

  40. The contentions measurably cease; the church is greatly prospered; tens of thousands baptized.

  41. The first companies had fared measurably well, but those who came later, and were the victims of an unusual and extraordinary winter, suffered greatly.

  42. The year had been a trying one to the Saints in Utah who were greatly distressed because of the cricket plague, from which, however, they were measurably relieved by the miraculous destruction of these insects by the sea-gulls.

  43. He had never been quite bereft of hope, the consciousness of his own innocence had measurably sustained him in his darkest hours.

  44. In the creation of his romance he might almost be said to have acquired a literary habit of mind, to which he was measurably helped by the fiction he read.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "measurably" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    appreciably; noticeably; perceptibly