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Example sentences for "properly"

Lexicographically close words:
propensity; proper; properer; properest; properlie; propertie; propertied; properties; property; propertyless
  1. Like the Eleusinian Mysteries, properly so called, they included dramatic representations of the rape of Persephone and the wanderings of Demeter; in addition, according to Stephen Byzantium, to certain Dionysian representations.

  2. Of course, the specimens themselves were properly marked, too.

  3. You girls certainly wouldn't dream of going on that long journey unless you were properly attended?

  4. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings, but don't forget you've properly trampled on mine.

  5. I suppose you're not properly his father if you don't marry her?

  6. When he was along with his dying relation, I missed the man a thousand times in every twelve hours and I felt properly astonished to find how he was the prop and stay of my business.

  7. I'm quite properly his father, and I'm going to be a jolly good father too.

  8. People don't get properly hot with each other unless there's a reason, Nelly, and I'm beginning to fear that the reason lies deeper than we thought.

  9. It was thus convenient that France should remain in a state of unrest until England should become properly strengthened and solidified in her isolated position.

  10. No one can properly tell what letters are authentic, what are written purposely to be discovered and to deceive.

  11. And the whole middle hexastic is such an indication of his own fortune or fate, such a caution against that envy of superior merit which he himself ever struggled with, that it could proceed from no hand more properly than his own.

  12. Probably Cecil did not need much influence to see that Ralegh was too powerful a man to be kept in a properly subordinate place, and to work his undoing.

  13. He wanted Essex to feel that his importance was properly recognized without admitting him into any State matters.

  14. He must take care not to be hurried to London, hurried before the Council, and hurried to the scaffold before men were properly aware of his presence, and aware of the importance of the event.

  15. The Board of Council see this with great concern, and, after much reflection on the subject, are of opinion that the deficiency in our regulars can no way be supplied so properly as by enlisting volunteers.

  16. On the contrary, that Constitution, instead of properly amending the old Confederation, simply annihilated it, and replaced it by something radically different and radically dangerous.

  17. Passing now from these general descriptions to particular instances, we may properly request Dr.

  18. And the other properly be clept Saracens, of Sarah.

  19. Wherefore, of them I cannot speak properly to tell you the manner of them.

  20. And they be all so properly made that it seemeth a very vine bearing kindly grapes.

  21. When properly thrown it looks just like a living animal leaping along .

  22. In order, however, to properly ascertain and make known the natural resources of the great tracts lying beyond the borders of civilization, such explorations and surveys as are undertaken must be of a truly scientific character.

  23. An explorer or surveyor properly equipped for his work need never return empty-handed.

  24. He could not lawfully and properly temporize with a malum in se, ("that which is in itself sin.

  25. Professor Hodge properly says, that our course should be like theirs, "unless it can be shown that their circumstances were so different from ours, as to make the rule of duty different in the two cases.

  26. There are navigating and non-navigating States--the Northern are properly the navigating States: the Southern appear to possess neither the means; nor the spirit of navigation.

  27. The servants from the Strangers were properly the domestics, or household servants, employed in all family work, in offices of personal attendance, and in such mechanical labor, as was required by increasing wants and needed repairs.

  28. When the committee of the whole, on the finance business, came to the ways and means, it might properly be taken into consideration, without giving any ground for alarm.

  29. As to the States being in possession of the right to import, this was the case with many other rights, now to be properly given up.

  30. When it was properly secured, and the corner stone lowered down by pullies to its place, he struck three blows upon it with a mallet, and then returned to the platform.

  31. She carefully avoided mentioning her own peril, but she resolved to properly thank old Jack later.

  32. The man turned on him with a look of scorn that no words of mine can properly describe.

  33. By its volume and extent the uproar was an appalling revelation of the number of those who had surrounded us, and I tell you that we seven men in that hut in the clearing were properly frightened.

  34. My aunt is very ill, and I don't know how to drive properly yet.

  35. I suppose we shall just have to grin and bear it till we can get home and can mermaid properly in a bath!

  36. Kirsty was extremely anxious that these practices should be properly supervised.

  37. Winona Woodward, if you'd been properly and thoroughly spanked in your babyhood, you'd be a much more civil person now.

  38. It was a tremendous anxiety to keep the lamps properly regulated.

  39. I'll arrange to run up to town again in a fortnight or so, and then Reb Shemuel shall see that we are properly untied.

  40. So true it is that one man and one intellect, properly qualified for the particular undertaking, is a host in itself and of extraordinary efficacy.

  41. People never look properly at people; people take people for granted; they remain blind to the facts; and when an artist comes along and discloses more of these facts than it is usual to disclose, of course there is a row.

  42. Who among you, indeed, could be relied upon to choose properly a play for a State performance?

  43. They sew for an hour a day in classes, under the supervision of another lady who also instructs a class in cutting by model and dress-making, and sees that all the girls attend properly to their mending.

  44. May not your secession from us, and profession that you cannot joyn with Us as members, and setting up Congregations of another communion be more properly called schisme?

  45. Schisme, properly so called, is a most grievous sin; 1.

  46. It is in a marble frame fixed in the wall, and too high to be properly viewed: but the superiority of the colouring can be appreciated, and the excellence of the head of the saint.

  47. The bearings of mowing machines and reapers often suffer excessive wear because the owner neglects to keep them properly oiled.

  48. The community must know how much money is needed for the school, the taxes must be fairly apportioned and collected, and the school must be properly managed to perform the community's work of education.

  49. Are the stables properly situated to protect the health of the family?

  50. Is the kitchen in your home properly arranged to save steps, labor, and time in doing kitchen work?

  51. There it is necessary to regulate these conditions by law, and factories and tenements are inspected to see that they are properly ventilated and not overcrowded.

  52. Consider (a) Are they properly placed with reference to the highway?

  53. Many matters are discussed that could not properly be taken up in town meeting.

  54. The case is usually turned over to one of the existing agencies that is properly equipped to handle it.

  55. The French properly regard as a national calamity the destruction of perhaps a thousand square miles of their fine forests by German shells.

  56. Out of 305 homes in a little community in Mississippi, only 4 properly disposed of sewage.

  57. It is not always easy to decide just where the dividing line lies between the powers properly exercised by each.

  58. Unless we know how to use what we earn to provide properly for all of our normal wants, the effort we spend in earning is very largely wasted.

  59. A good piece of machinery, if judiciously used, properly lubricated, and put away in a dry place, may last from ten to twenty years, while the life of such machinery will only be about half as long without proper care.

  60. I hold in my hand the paper properly made out, and from this hour you are free to go where you will.

  61. He will be more closely guarded, and if he is found guilty of murder, will be properly punished.

  62. Vegetables that are inexpensive but highly nutritious should be used when it is necessary to practice economy, because, when they are properly prepared, they form a valuable addition to a meal.

  63. In addition, cows that are not well fed, comfortably housed, or carefully groomed cannot be expected to give milk of as good quality as cows that are properly cared for.

  64. However, if cabbage is properly cooked, no apprehension need be felt about eating it, for it can be digested by most persons.

  65. However, much of this can be dissipated by cooking them with the cover of the kettle removed, so that when properly prepared they furnish a pleasant variety to the winter menu.

  66. However, when they are properly prepared, they can be eaten by most persons without harm.

  67. Eggs properly poached make a very attractive breakfast dish, but the poaching should be well done in order to have the dish attractive and digestible.

  68. The use of vegetables, however, need not be restricted to adults, for when properly prepared they may be included to advantage in the diet of very young children.

  69. This substance is essential to the normal growth of plants and is present in the correct amount in only those which are properly exposed to the sunlight.

  70. The flavor of cabbage, however, may be dissipated if attention is given to the cooking, so that, when properly prepared, cabbage can be eaten with little fear of indigestion.

  71. One of the chief sources of starch among vegetables is the potato, in which the starch grains are large and, if properly cooked, easily digested.

  72. Vegetables that are extremely high in starch, such as potatoes, are easily digested by most persons, provided they are properly cooked.

  73. If properly made, such cheese is very digestible.

  74. Also, if it is fresh, it will not sour quickly after it is delivered, so that in case it is properly cared for and sours quickly, it may be known to be stale milk.

  75. It was not, properly speaking, a battle at all, and it was not above the clouds in the sense in which that phrase impresses the ordinary mind.

  76. It made of it instead an army in the field, well fed, properly supplied, and ready for march or battle, as its commander might direct.

  77. When he first began to work independently and to have pupils, he fitted it up with many little cells, properly lighted, so that each student might work alone, as he knew far better work could be done in that way.

  78. This was destined to be the turning point in Hunt's luck, for that painting was properly hung at the exhibition, and it received recognition.

  79. You said "that the letters of Brutus appeared properly and regularly expressed.

  80. A man who, while he says that he is defending the acts of another, perverts all those laws of his which we might most properly praise.

  81. XXII An arrangement of the subjects to be mentioned in an argument, when properly made, renders the whole oration clear and intelligible.

  82. My ears delight in a well-turned and properly finished period of words, and they like conciseness, and disapprove of redundancy.

  83. Much less can they properly be considered divisions of that division, as he calls them.

  84. But if they cannot properly be considered divisions of a kind of argument, much less can they properly be considered divisions of a division of an argument.

  85. But demonstration and deliberation cannot be properly considered divisions of a kind of argument, because they are separate kinds of arguments themselves.

  86. But before men who have been properly brought up we shall dwell chiefly on praise and honourableness, and speak chiefly of those kinds of virtues which are concerned in maintaining and increasing the general advantage of men.

  87. Deliberation and demonstration cannot properly be considered divisions of any kind of argument.

  88. But the arrangement which embraces the properly distributed explanation of the facts, ought to have brevity, completeness, conciseness.

  89. Under lock and key at the Residency," I replied, "and only waiting for your arrival to be properly inspected.

  90. I have done this much for him: I went to Haroun and told him, without mentioning what was actually the matter, that the prisoner was very ill, and unless properly attended to might die at any moment.

  91. Well, as soon as it gets properly dark and the stars are nice and bright, I'll take you along quite gaily.

  92. He shall be properly attended to," said the Governor, "and for what he has done he will have to account later on.


  93. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "properly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accurately; advantageously; amply; customarily; decently; dispassionately; duly; equally; evenly; fair; fairly; fitful; gracefully; justly; nicely; perfectly; practically; properly; quietly; right; rightfully; rightly; sic; simply; straight; tastefully; traditionally; truly; utterly; well


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    properly called; properly made; properly managed; properly speaking; properly understood; properly used