I cannot smile when I see all these grown folk waltzing and piping the eye about an insubordinate and perfectly abominable schoolgirl, as silly and patently as false as Blanche Amory.
I have heard too much against the thrawn, discomfortable dog: dead he is, and we may be glad of it; but he was a better man than most of us, no less patently than he was a worse.
This was too patently a scheme of Harper's and Joe Ladue's, trying to entice prospecting in the vicinity of their town site and trading post.
He turned and lurched out of the place, the moral effect of his utterance largely spoiled by the fact that he was so patently full while he uttered it.
On the contrary, she had been so patently content, so filled with peace.
I don't give a ha'penny over fippence," answered Captain Coffin, patently taken aback by the interruption.
Moreover, each had patently been dashed in with two hurried strokes of the pen and without any pretence of accuracy.
Perhaps it was a mistake after all to say the chums had nothing patently in common.
It was not long before the body of Roxdal came to shore, the face distorted almost beyond recognition by long immersion, but the clothes patently his, and a pocket-book in the breast-pocket removing the last doubt.
He was so patently nervous that I put him in a chair and poured him out a wine-glassful of London brandy.
He was patently and beyond the pride of concealment terrified.
Seen from some panoramic height, forest and moorland lie patently outspread to view, yet imagination is taxed to believe them tenanted at all.
Patently solid they betrayed their constitution not only by diverse topography but by diversified tint.
Self-assertive of reality, the double lines are patently objective to him who is fortunate enough to see them well.
Could we get off our globe and view it from without we should mark two sash-like bands of country, to the poleward side of either tropic, where the surface itself lay patently exposed.
Yet it is equally evident that when once a warlike enterprise has been entered upon so far as to commit the nation to hostilities, it will have the cordial support of popular sentiment even if it is patentlyan aggressive war.
I waited a moment outside, that I might not seem too patently to have followed him; and as I stood there, a precocious small boy came up and looked me over.
If the alteration was one for which the evidence was patently and decidedly preponderating, it was at once adopted, and the work went onward.
Insolence so patently hysterical could neither hurt nor harden her heart.
He's too patently after free advertising, and I'm not going to help along his boost.
The case lay open--patently displaying the name of the most famous jewelry house in America.
Such a weapon as had brought down the helihopper and scouter waspatently beyond reach of his own latter-day technology.
But that same hard experience had honed rather than blunted the edge of his imagination, and the prospect of a close-quarters stalking of an unknown and patently hostile force was anything but attractive.
He tried to throw into the parting words the sentiment which the occasion demanded, but it was patently an effort, and had not the ring of truth or tenderness.
He faltered, patently embarrassed by a distasteful task.
It was patentlythe girl's immediate business to find one or the other or both of them and make sure that nothing was radically wrong after all.
Her eyes were hard, her mouth tight-lipped, her temper patently set on a hair-trigger.
Patently Juliette and Algy did have their own plans and as patently didn't care to discuss them.
They ignored this whereas they might have said patently tolerant things to her.
He listened, patently because it was his duty to let me speak.
A very young couple, patently upon their honeymoon, were conferring excitedly.
The Indian is patently unable to construct a progressive civilization.
She knows that China has in the past always acquiesced in foreign domination when resistance has proved patently impossible.
Perfectly natural and innocent conduct on the part of the child is deleterious to the grown-up home, sopatently so that owners of fine houses are not willing to let them to families with children.
The plan of thus using ideas extends to education: "We have misled, stupefied and demoralized the youth of the Gentiles by means of education in principles and theories, patently false to us, but which we have inspired.
We have misled, stupefied and demoralized the youth of the Gentiles by means of education in principles and theories patently false to us, but which we have inspired.
The hotels, the factories, the shops all testify patently to the presence of the stranger within the gates looking after his own interests, breeding his money on Italian soil.
There was the "Vittorio," founded by the German party, patently the mouthpiece of Teutonic diplomacy.
This was true even in Italy and Spain and France, where each year the current ways of Romance speech were departing more definitely from the parent stock; it was more patently true in the countries of Teutonic speech.
Were they to attempt the democratic experiment in a nation patently unripe for it, or were they to disavow the commands of their deceased and sainted Leader, and continue in power?
Mac Tavish maintained his silence while Morrison picked out what were patently his personal letters before surrendering the others to the girl to be opened and assorted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
