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Example sentences for "steadily"

Lexicographically close words:
steadfastness; steadied; steadier; steadies; steadiest; steadiness; steading; steadings; steads; steady
  1. Huxley obtains that perfect clearness in his own work by simple definition, by keeping steadily before his audience his intention, and by making plain throughout his lecture a well-defined organic structure.

  2. I say fortunately, not from any lack of respect for Toronto, but because I soon made up my mind that London was the place for me, and hence I have steadily declined the inducements to leave it, which have at various times been offered.

  3. After this trip he steadily improved in health, with no other serious illness for ten years.

  4. Reade kept steadily on with his work, and no word was spoken for half an hour.

  5. The stone left his hand, arching upward, and flew straight toward Bad Pete, who had advanced steadily as he fired.

  6. After that Harry steadily stopped his chum at every reading.

  7. Of course it showed both grit and coolness on your part in keeping steadily on with your work all the time the fellow was firing at you.

  8. The pulse and respiration steadily fail, death occurring from asphyxia.

  9. She worked steadily at the development of the New hospital, and (from 1874) at the creation of a complete school of medicine in London for women.

  10. Some of the field artillery, which had now crossed the Alma, fired steadily into the closed masses of the Russian reserve, and the Vladimir regiment lost half of its numbers under the volleys of the Guards.

  11. The number of samples of articles annually submitted to analysis, according to the returns obtained by the Local Government Board, steadily increased from the commencement onward.

  12. The husbandry of the country was thus steadily improving, when suddenly the whole of Europe became involved in the wars of the French Revolution.

  13. He lectured at Kufa upon canon law (fiqh) and was a consulting lawyer (mufti), but refused steadily to take any public post.

  14. Grant had not reached Lee's flank at any point, and his casualties from first to last had been unprecedentedly heavy, but "hammering" was steadily prevailing where skill and valour had failed.

  15. The Creole population increased and was steadily recruited from home.

  16. Meanwhile Vicksburg was steadily becoming stronger and more formidable.

  17. The number of subjects for dissection has since 1895 been steadily diminishing, especially in London.

  18. Preparations had gone steadily on, and the time that must elapse before the Marathon was run could be measured in days.

  19. With that measure of oats held within smelling distance of his nose he kept plodding steadily along, and mile after mile was placed in their rear.

  20. Still bad fortune dogged them, for that night a fresh head wind sprang up and held steadily while they thrashed her south, swept by stinging spray.

  21. Her resentment against the girl grew steadily stronger, until it threatened to prove dangerous on opportunity.

  22. It grew steadily thicker; the straps began to gall their wet shoulders, and their saturated clothing clung heavily about their limbs.

  23. His countenance changes, his eyes scan steadily over the scene.

  24. I did not think that any men on foot could have resisted that charge, but the Franks stood as steadily as if it were a flock of sheep that was approaching them.

  25. The columns now formed into line, and, pressing steadily forward, the French were compelled to abandon their position, and to retreat to the works on the heights before the town itself.

  26. But pressing steadily forward, the French fought their way into the cemetery, and opening out, poured such heavy volleys into the Egyptians that these speedily ran up the streets leading from it, leaving numbers of dead behind.

  27. If she were rolling heavily perhaps I might be, but she is going on so steadily that I don't feel it at all.

  28. However, it had the effect of enabling him, without interruption, to settle down steadily to work with his father, and to make himself acquainted with the details of the business.

  29. So the conversation sank to silence, broken only by an occasional whisper, and no gesture even made communication, for they saw the leering look of the reptile fixed steadily upon them.

  30. By steadily following the pursuit which had first attracted him to Peru, he succeeded in becoming a man of considerable means,--independent, if not wealthy.

  31. She brought nearer all those wonderful places which Salvina still promised herself to behold one day, though year after year she went steadily to Ramsgate.

  32. She opened it, as usual, for Mrs. Brill did not even know the alphabet, and refused steadily to make its acquaintance, to the ironic humiliation of the Board School teacher.

  33. To the Army of the Potomac, however, it seemed incredible that so small a force as Jackson's could be a serious menace to that city, and preparations for a forward movement and a great and decisive battle went steadily on.

  34. No sooner did the light appear than sharp shooting began on both sides, and was steadily kept up during the day.

  35. F went at its work as steadily and coolly as veterans.

  36. Steadily and coolly the men faced to the right at the sound of the bugle, and commenced their march, still firing as they advanced.

  37. He must have felt from the time when he first became Exciseman, that he had parted company with all thought of steadily working out his ideal, and that whatever he might now do in that way must be by random snatches.

  38. Tried by this standard, Burns must be great indeed, for during the eighty years that have passed since his death, men's interest in the man himself and their estimate of his genius have been steadily increasing.

  39. I did not make any reply, but walked steadily on till I reached the familiar gates leading into our yard, and through which I had seen the laden van pass so many hundreds of times.

  40. From the very outset of his literary career his thoughts had steadily turned to the drama, and his earliest attempt had been that ill-fated Cromwell, which had failed so ignominiously when read to his family.

  41. We have, indeed, no tabulation of the ages of pregnant women who have manifested longings, but Giles has clearly shown that these chiefly occur in primiparæ, and steadily and rapidly decrease in each successive pregnancy.

  42. I could no longer fix my attention steadily upon my work and found that only by "cribbing" and "bluffing" could I keep my place at the head of my classes.

  43. For a week our little fleet progressed steadily across the ocean.

  44. A day of occasional combats and severe marching, while the English generals slowly and steadily fell back, produced no greater results than those attendant upon yesterday.

  45. Repeat it," he continued, as he fixed his eye steadily on mine.

  46. I did not know exactly what to say; and the fair puritan maintained a solemn silence, with her sparkling eyes fixed steadily upon the carpet.

  47. The pale girl looked steadily and suspiciously at her companion; but one glance dispelled her fears.

  48. He was a little groggy when he got up, but in a few minutes he walked away as steadily as I can.

  49. Mr. French looked steadily in Mr. Bradley's face, which had assumed what was intended to pass for an expression of dignified displeasure.

  50. It fits tight and takes some pulling, but it comes steadily along, wiping all before it.

  51. Yes; it pours down as if the sea were overhead, and goes on steadily for days.

  52. Then he got up and, standing before her with his hands in his pockets, looked down at her steadily and continued: "It has to do with a drug.

  53. To-day they have a good time; he is steadily employed, and both are serving God, holding the respect and confidence of neighbours, etc.

  54. From the age of eighteen, when her parents had forced her to throw over her sailor sweetheart and marry a man with "good prospects," she had been going steadily down.

  55. The two pictures would not stay steadily in his mind together.

  56. On the other hand she professed a steadily increasing passion for Mr. Britling.

  57. You don't look at anything steadily while the guns are going.

  58. Through a week of deepening disillusionment the main tide of battle rolled back steadily towards Paris.

  59. Indeed the afternoon and the next day were steadily consistent in confirming what a very good dictum it had been.

  60. Section 7 I do not think you Germans realise how steadily you were conquering the world before this war began.

  61. The dark eyes gazed on her steadily for a long time, with an expression she had never seen in human eyes before.

  62. I did not know that one could feel such pain,' said Mother Veronica, looking steadily out of the window; but her voice was little more than a breath.

  63. The Mother Superior turned up her white face and looked at him so steadily that he gazed at her in surprise.

  64. But she looked steadily down at the flagstones, and her hands were hidden under the broad scapular of white cloth that hung straight down from under her gorget to her feet.

  65. She kept her eyes steadily on Saint Ursula while she spoke again.

  66. Then he paused, and she knew what was coming next, for he would speak of a possible meeting; but how he would regard that she could not guess, and she waited steadily for the blow if it was to be one.

  67. And with little ceremony, I walked steadily out and betook myself to the carriage awaiting me.

  68. As the Major did not take it but continued to regard him steadily out of brooding eyes, the Governor returned the commission to the basket and fell to drumming his desk.

  69. The wind rose rapidly and gained great velocity while the rain fell steadily and hard.

  70. But she moved away from him, and went on talking--still in a strained, unnatural voice, but steadily and straightforwardly.

  71. For a minute or two he goes on with much indecision, taking first one line and then another, but soon by the aid of some mysterious sense he discovers the true direction, and follows it steadily from morning to night.

  72. When they first saw me they used to hold up a part of their drapery with one hand across their faces, but they seldom persevered very steadily in subjecting me to this privation.

  73. I doubted for a moment whether I would give her a little rest, a relaxation of pace, but I decided that I would not, and continued to push forward as steadily as before.

  74. He watched her steadily for a full minute; the girl, though trembling in every nerve, sending back a steady, haughty gaze.

  75. Then suddenly the sound of the animal moving steadily away from her roused her to the necessity of securing him.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steadily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    always; constantly; continually; daily; decidedly; dispassionately; earnestly; endlessly; eternally; evenly; ever; faithfully; firmly; hand; hourly; incessantly; infinitely; intently; interminably; intermittently; invariably; judiciously; methodically; moderately; orderly; perennially; permanently; perpetually; persistently; placidly; quietly; rapidly; regularly; resolutely; seriously; soberly; staunchly; steadily; step; surely; systematically