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Example sentences for "wisely"

Lexicographically close words:
wised; wisedom; wisedome; wiselie; wiselike; wisemen; wiser; wisest; wish; wishbone
  1. Instances of insubordination occurred whenever he thought he was treated unfairly, while no boy was ever more ready to submit to authority when wisely and justly administered.

  2. Ask yourself seriously within your own heart--what right have you to live wisely in God's world, and they not to live a little less wisely?

  3. With only a combat here and there, to tighten their lines or repulse a sortie, they wisely preferred to wait till starvation should do the work with little loss and absolute certainty.

  4. At first its nonappearance did not worry me much, for I attributed the delay to the bad weather, and supposed Colonel Crawford had wisely laid up during the worst storms.

  5. As wisely give a physiological lecture to convince a man of the pain of burns, while he is lying with his head on the bars of the fire-grate, instead of snatching him off.

  6. Unless most wisely directed, Psychic Research is likely, by not letting the right hand know what the left hand is doing, to foster the undesirable propensities of human nature as rapidly as it antagonizes them.

  7. For many this development remains stunted or arrested; and they continue as children of a larger growth, leaning much on others, rarely venturing abroad alone and wisely confining their excursions to familiar ground.

  8. Wisely finding, day by day, Play in toil, and toil in play.

  9. Let men who fear no God, but who have lives, and wives, and property to lose, look to it, and say if they act wisely in giving their influence to a system which lands in such consequences.

  10. God grant we may see how to act wisely should it be so,' said his wife fervently.

  11. The provisions were immediately placed before him, and the sapient chief, after putting aside a portion for his own use, wisely proceeded to give his judgment.

  12. Those whom the statues recall are all well and wisely honored in this most cosmopolitan of countries and of cities.

  13. From the moment that independence was secured no man in America saw more clearly the necessity of national union, or defined more wisely and distinctly the reasons for it.

  14. The dancing of young people is as natural and instinctive as their laughing and singing, and the old Easy Chairs about the wall might as wisely quarrel with the song of the bobolink in the fields as with the dance upon the floor.

  15. But he would be right also if he remembered that familiarity breeds contempt, and that he may wisely distrust his feeling for any woman who does not put him upon his good behavior.

  16. The writer certainly seems to describe by contrast, but he has wisely left a little cloud in which to envelop his retreat in case of emergency.

  17. Mr. Leigh, you have done wisely to-night.

  18. I have seen Catholics, senor, commit too many abominations even with the name of God upon their lips, to shrink from a heretic if he speak wisely and well.

  19. He had in the autumn of 1860 warned President Buchanan of danger to be apprehended from the secession movement, and wisely suggested measures to preserve peace; but he soon distrusted and abandoned his own suggestions.

  20. He saw that he was treading upon uncertain ground, and he wisely held his peace.

  21. He was accused of being culpably slow, when he was wisely deliberate.

  22. Elmer could think of nothing to say, and wisely said nothing.

  23. The suggestions made as to the way to deal with sewage are also mostly good, but it is doubtful whether general purification can wisely be enforced in the present state of sanitary science.

  24. His friends and onlookers are often able to judge more wisely than he himself can do as to which Of the two lines it would be better for him to pursue.

  25. He wisely realised how great would be the fame which would accrue to his realm if he could induce Tycho to remain within Danish territory and carry on there the great work of his life.

  26. This Society never solicits donations, but it uses voluntary contributions as wisely and economically as possible in the propagation of Christian knowledge along the lines presented in Scripture Studies.

  27. Cromwell had attempted it (1654), but the Restoration put an end to the work which the Protector had so wisely begun.

  28. Laboring under these disadvantages he wisely declined to take any active part in the affairs of the nation.

  29. The King wisely compromised the matter by offering to accept from each knight a sum of money in lieu of service, called scutage, or shield money.

  30. Mr. Wetherill, whether wisely or not, put much money in property, and it has been a dead weight mostly.

  31. There were some other conditions I could not wisely accept.

  32. They wisely and properly chose the former alternative, but of course at the cost of exposing the present Government to charges of gross inconsistency.

  33. Nature had given him powers which might have raised him to very honourable distinction, and have procured him every sort of success, if they had been well and wisely employed, instead of the very reverse.

  34. Dougal, finding himself forgotten in the scuffle, had wisely crept into the thicket which overhung the road, and was already mounting the cliff with the agility of a wild-cat.

  35. But some of the others held that the deed was not wisely done, because after that the people of the country would not do business with the smugglers.

  36. And they called the son of their old king back to his lawful throne, where he ruled wisely and well; and the hoarded wealth of Kwytoffle was divided among the people again, and soon the country became prosperous once more.

  37. The commission wisely determined to reproduce this building as it was at that date on the exposition grounds at St. Louis and to use the same as a State building.

  38. But Joliet builded more wisely than he knew, for to this day, fraud, treachery and broken faith are the chief witnesses to our treaties with the aboriginal owners of the land.

  39. The lands which he visited must be his fee to the king; certain rights of trade he wisely secured to himself.

  40. And yet Mr. Ruskin has his ideas on the woman question, and very positive ideas they are too--often sweetly sympathetic and wisely helpful.

  41. The boy became a man who wielded wisely a power mightier than that ever given to any other American.

  42. The rest are wisely kept from the public, else, forsooth, the fledgling writers of penny-shockers would seize upon them for raw stock.

  43. The Board having wisely determined in no event to enter into engagements beyond their ascertained means, I have thought it best, thus early, to present an estimate of the cost of the whole work for their guidance.

  44. Acworth, the leading authorities on British railways, discuss the alternative to wisely regulated railways--nationalization of railways.

  45. When this is done the Race Problem will at once assume an acute phase; for the aggregate wisdom and power of the Negro none can wisely ignore.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wisely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    discreetly; intelligently; judiciously; knowingly; rationally; reasonably; wisely