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.
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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Meanings and Examples of DELIBERATELY
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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.
2 "Thank you," she said sweetly, deliberately misunderstanding his jibe.
3 Turning deliberately, Scarlett raised the tree limb she had been using as a whip and brought it down across Prissy's back.
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.
5 They said he had deliberately dragged in Belle Watling to put the nice people of the town in a disgraceful position.
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.
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.
8 She deliberately misunderstood.
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.
10 That done, if it belong to a small whale it is hoisted on deck to be deliberately disposed of.
11 In each case the crime was deliberately planned and perpetrated by several Negroes.
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.
13 But he stepped aside, deliberately, and let her fall.
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.
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.
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.