DELIBERATELY in a Sentence

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192 example sentences for DELIBERATELY, such as:
1. She deliberately misunderstood.
2. Her statement was deliberately misleading.
3. They deliberately shifted off the argument.
4. She has been deliberately left off the guest list.
5. But he stepped aside, deliberately, and let her fall.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DELIBERATELY
deliberately
 ad.  in a deliberate unhurried manner
 ad.  with intention; in an intentional manner
Classic Sentence: (159 in 11 pages)
1  At other times her silence seemed deliberately assumed to conceal far-reaching intentions, mysterious conclusions drawn from suspicions and resentments impossible to guess.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  "Thank you," she said sweetly, deliberately misunderstanding his jibe.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Turning deliberately, Scarlett raised the tree limb she had been using as a whip and brought it down across Prissy's back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  Others who were permitted to take the oath, hotly refused to do so, scorning to swear allegiance to a government which was deliberately subjecting them to cruelty and humiliation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  They said he had deliberately dragged in Belle Watling to put the nice people of the town in a disgraceful position.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
6  But it was one of those moments when neither seemed to speak deliberately, when an indwelling voice in each called to the other across unsounded depths of feeling.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
7  She made the statement clearly, deliberately, with pauses between the sentences, so that each should have time to sink deeply into her hearer's mind.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
8  She deliberately misunderstood.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  Steelkilt rose, and slowly retreating round the windlass, steadily followed by the mate with his menacing hammer, deliberately repeated his intention not to obey.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
10  That done, if it belong to a small whale it is hoisted on deck to be deliberately disposed of.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
11  In each case the crime was deliberately planned and perpetrated by several Negroes.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
12  The Caucasian blackguard simply obeys the promptings of a depraved disposition, and he is seldom deliberately rough or offensive toward strangers or unprotected women.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
13  But he stepped aside, deliberately, and let her fall.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
14  When assured that all was still, and unable to detect, even by the aid of his practiced senses, any sign of his approaching foes, he would deliberately resume his slow and guarded progress.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
15  But the rifle of Uncas was deliberately raised toward the heavens, directing the eyes of his companions to a point, where the mystery was immediately explained.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  They deliberately shifted off the argument.
2  The author deliberately breaks the narrative continuity in order to confound the reader's expectations.
3  All trace of his working - class background was deliberately obscured.
4  Managers deliberately obscured the real situation from federal investigators.
5  I know you think I did it deliberately, but I assure you I did not.
6  She lifted her chin in a gesture that deliberately exposed the line of her throat.
7  She has been deliberately left off the guest list.
8  He doesn't really mean that—he's just being deliberately provocative.
9  The acrobat deliberately faulted the performance once to make it look difficult.
10  His words to the press were deliberately equivocal - he didn't deny the reports but neither did he confirm them.
11  Her statement was deliberately misleading.
12  Was it just a coincidence that John and she had chanced to meet at the market, or was he deliberately trying to seek her out?
13  Deeply iconoclastic, Jean Genet deliberately set out to shock conventional theatergoers with his radical plays.
14  They have no doubt that the dolphins acted deliberately to protect them.
15  Perhaps alien worlds could be seeded deliberately with terrestrial micro-organisms that might take hold there, jump-starting evolution on those planets.