ACTIVELY in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for ACTIVELY, such as:
1. They are actively lobbying for the bill.
2. She actively participates in local politics.
3. She is an active participant in this activity.
4. Although he's quite old he's still very active.
5. She had actively solicited funds for her election campaign.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ACTIVELY
actively
 ad.  in an active manner
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If he would have admitted it, and prepared himself for it: or if he would have admitted it, and actively struggled with his wife against it: that would have been acting like a man.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
2  Oliver was rendered the more anxious to be actively employed, by what he had seen of the stern morality of the old gentleman's character.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  In an instant, the other two were on their legs, and all were actively engaged in busy preparation.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  But Thomasin's imagination being so actively engaged elsewhere, the night and the weather had for her no terror beyond that of their actual discomfort and difficulty.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
5  In the meantime, the matter is being actively investigated, Mr. Lestrade, one of the very smartest of our detective officers, being in charge of the case.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
6  Though his popularity was of the quiet kind, felt rather than actively expressed among his friends, she had never mistaken his inconspicuousness for obscurity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
7  That lady, though still floating in the void, showed faint symptoms of developing an outline; and in this endeavour she was actively seconded by Mr. Melville Stancy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
8  Soon the crew came on board in twos and threes; the riggers bestirred themselves; the mates were actively engaged; and several of the shore people were busy in bringing various last things on board.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
9  Soon I had traced on the paper a broad and prominent forehead and a square lower outline of visage: that contour gave me pleasure; my fingers proceeded actively to fill it with features.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  I continued the labours of the village-school as actively and faithfully as I could.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  My sister, who had begun to be alarmingly meditative, had to employ herself actively in getting the gin the hot water, the sugar, and the lemon-peel, and mixing them.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
12  I am free to confess that I have not been actively engaged in pursuits immediately connected with cultivation or with stock, though well aware that both will claim my attention on a foreign shore.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
13  Gabriel coloured, as if he felt he had made a mistake and, without looking at her, kicked off his goloshes and flicked actively with his muffler at his patent-leather shoes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
14  But the very difficulties and preoccupations of the journey, which she took so actively in hand, saved her for a while from her grief and gave her strength.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XIV
15  He fancied himself a burden to the society, forgetting in his perfectly juvenile good faith that he had fed this society for a month; and he set his mind actively to work.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They are actively lobbying for the bill.
2  She had actively solicited funds for her election campaign.
3  We only recruit go-getters who will be actively involved in the company's development.
4  The government must actively encourage investment in these areas.
5  We will actively manage your portfolio to maximize the return on your investment.
6  I prefer teaching methods that actively involve students in learning.
7  She actively participates in local politics.
8  The company is being actively considered as a potential partner.
9  Left at Miss Minchin's school for girls while her father went off to war, Sarah Crewe refused to languish; instead, she hid her grief and actively befriended her less fortunate classmates.
10  Though we feel sad at someone's pain and sorrow, feeling morose is difficult while actively wishing the person to be happy.
11  The beloved star - who worked actively from the 1960s up until an illness late last year - passed away Thursday morning.
12  He says, US studios acquiesced to Nazi censorship of their films actively cooperated with the regime's world propaganda effort.
13  She is an active participant in this activity.
14  Archbishop Hunt-hausen also vocalized his beliefs that women and homosexuals should be more active in the church.
15  Although he's quite old he's still very active.