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Example sentences for "strictly"

Lexicographically close words:
strickt; strict; stricte; stricter; strictest; strictness; stricture; strictures; stride; strided
  1. Hence they are more strictly the work of Providence than of human foresight or human intelligence and will.

  2. Though not strictly handsome, her noble bearing and charming coloring produced all the effect of beauty.

  3. What it is all about is strictly a secret, and laudably well kept; which gives to the various sorrows that touching effect peculiar to the wailings of unseen babies from unascertained ailments.

  4. Strictly speaking, it is only the meritorious cause.

  5. In paragraph number eight we are told that-- "The college will be conducted on strictly protestant and evangelical principles.

  6. In Italy the young girls of the middle class, though seemingly allowed a greater freedom of intercourse than the daughters of noblemen, were in reality as strictly guarded.

  7. Nevertheless, their caste rights as to food are as strictly observed as the exigencies of active service allow.

  8. It held Thought and Matter to be eternal, inseparable, and, indeed, strictly identical.

  9. If they faithfully obeyed their orders, and acted strictly and perseveringly in concert, according to the plans formed by the commanders, and displayed the usual courage and resolution of Greeks, he was sure of victory.

  10. This was not strictly true; for she did, in fact, know, and only denied her power to decide the question because she wished to have both of her children kings.

  11. This completed what was strictly the Persian part of the army.

  12. Some were strictly ships of war, intended for actual combat; others were transports, their destination being simply the conveyance of troops or of military stores.

  13. They were commanders, chieftains, hereditary generals, but not strictly kings.

  14. You don't seem to be aware that we're working on strictly Logical principles.

  15. The first two are, as it happens, not strictly true in our planet.

  16. Let me record a little dialogue I have just held with my friend Jones, who is trying to form a new Club, to be regulated on strictly Logical principles.

  17. We have no adherents; this is a strictly private affair.

  18. It was strictly the truth, but the abrupt manner of bringing it home to him momentarily took away Mr. Carr's power of repartee, although he was apt enough in general, as became a special pleader.

  19. But himself strictly honourable, he could not suspect dishonour in another; and Lord Hartledon supposed it simply impossible that she should attempt to open it of her own accord.

  20. All cities and municipalities were strictly enjoined to elect none but good Catholics to the office of mayor or sheriff, exacting from them a certificate of Catholicism before entering on the duties of their office.

  21. The secret was kept as strictly as possible toward friend and foe.

  22. But now I am going to descend to figures, and can assure my incredulous English readers, that what I relate is strictly true--vraie, although not vraisemblable.

  23. The Boers from the outset assumed the offensive, whilst we, owing to our numerical inferiority, were compelled to act strictly on the defensive until the arrival of reinforcements, which were already on the way from England.

  24. It was, he confesses, "not much" and "not strictly evidential.

  25. That another medium heroically refrained from reading up any classical dictionaries or works on the subject, and reserved her mind strictly for whatever information the spirits might give her.

  26. The unguarded taxicab seized the opportunity, bolted from the track, and flung, as it were, its arms drunkenly around a perfectly respectable lamppost attending strictly to its business on the curb.

  27. You 'tend strictly to business, or I'll blow your nose off.

  28. You 'tend strictly to business, or I'll blow your mush-bowl off.

  29. We move in the illusion of seeing and knowing that which is strictly indispensable to our little lives.

  30. It was not strictly out of mobile defence range, but it so happened that it lay behind islands which lent themselves to the creation of fixed defences, and thus it fulfilled all the recognised conditions.

  31. This is a good example of true defensive; that is, Togo's operations, though drastically offensive in action, were all strictly within the strategical defensive sphere assigned to him.

  32. In the former case the Americans took up arms in order to liberate Cuba from Spanish domination--a strictly limited object.

  33. But it is to be observed that his conduct was strictly in accordance with the principle which makes the invading army the primary objective.

  34. Strictly speaking, the term implies a desire to close the blockaded port and to prevent the enemy putting to sea.

  35. It was, strictly speaking, only his destination.

  36. Youth, eager, responsive to all noble ambitions and touched by all noble dissatisfactions with what is, makes its plan for what should be on a strictly logical basis.

  37. One of these rules is that each adult person shall have one place strictly his of her own.

  38. Doctor Devine has well said that "the only satisfactory method of getting babies safely through the first years of life is the strictly individualistic plan of attention to each one by its own mother.

  39. Every year social effort once strictly of private provision and support becomes a public service, with organized supervision and standardized compensation.

  40. There are not wanting those who believe that rationalism in parenthood is wrong and should be prevented, if possible, but those are the people who decry the use of reason in all other matters, except it may be in the strictly economic field.

  41. Classic curricula were strictly adhered to and all "practical" courses viewed with open distrust except those leading to the inherited professions, and to teaching, as these were pushed upward toward college professorships.

  42. Perhaps it was not strictly true that these malcontents were sick of the game of running away, but it is strictly true that they were disgusted with the penalty which had been imposed upon them by the authorities of the Academy.

  43. To that prim, half convent-like seclusion, where manners are being formed and the proprieties are strictly observed, it comes as a pleasant suggestion of something worldly and masculine, just a little wicked and altogether delightful.

  44. He would, however, have been compelled in some degree to modify his taste in regard to clothing, unless he confined himself the year through to the valley, ninety miles by twenty, which strictly bears the name.

  45. The polyandry of the Tibetans is in direct contrast with the polygamy of the Moslems, and is far more strictly maintained.

  46. Should be Hobbled & Spancled, and Strictly attended to by the guard made 12 miles to day.

  47. Capt McClellins plan I think a very good one if strictly prosued &c.

  48. The land is, in great part, strictly entailed.

  49. Yet he was strictly orthodox, and was an uncompromising advocate of the pope's temporal power.

  50. In Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba and British Columbia the public schools are strictly undenominational.

  51. There should be no vows, and the rules to be strictly observed should be:-- 1.

  52. Ah, he won't say, and begs me to consider this communication strictly confidential.

  53. The domestics were new, had been strictly warned against the name of Clements, and, in effect, were creatures of the worthy John.

  54. The natural sequences are strictly and beautifully maintained.

  55. The direct form of the injunction intimates, what might be gathered from the nature of the case, that this parable is more strictly an example than a symbol.

  56. Of no commandment will the fulfilment be demanded of us with such stringency, no divine rule so strictly enforced as this, without the slightest exception to leave a loop-hole of hope to the transgressor.

  57. The two parables are in this respect strictly parallel; in both alike an ordinary act in rural economy is performed, and in either it is performed by a person of the appropriate sex.

  58. Some observations are here submitted, more or less strictly introductory to a treatise on a specific branch of Scriptural exegesis--the Parables of Our Lord.

  59. The terza rima is, strictly speaking, a scheme of continuous verse rather than a stanza, each tercet being united by the rime-scheme to the preceding.

  60. Clough also wrote some hexameters intended to be strictly quantitative.

  61. But as regards the Art of Poetry, his reasoning does not lead us to conclude that he would have reckoned the authors of prose dialogues or romances among poets strictly so called.

  62. The charm of these strictly written verses is undoubtedly increased by some knowledge of their technical rules.

  63. Strictly speaking, the chambers are not actual tombs, but mortuary chapels.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strictly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolutely; accurately; dead; definitely; directly; even; exactly; expressly; exquisitely; faithfully; grimly; harshly; just; letter; literally; minutely; nicely; plumb; positively; precisely; right; rigidly; rigorously; severely; sharply; square; squarely; straight; strictly; verbatim


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    strictly forbidden; strictly limited; strictly observed; strictly speaking