DELIBERATELY in a Sentence

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192 example sentences for DELIBERATELY, such as:

1. He told us a deliberate lie.
2. She deliberately misunderstood.
3. The attack on him was quite deliberate.
4. She has a slow, deliberate way of talking.
5. The omission of her name was not a deliberate act.

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 Meanings and Examples of DELIBERATELY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
deliberately
 ad.  intentionally; purposely; with careful consideration or deliberation; with full intent;
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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)
16  The omission of her name was not a deliberate act.
17  Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
18  Therefore it is easy to assume that this must be a deliberate, callous attempt to inflict hurt.
19  The attack on him was quite deliberate.
20  She has a slow, deliberate way of talking.
21  He told us a deliberate lie.
22  You should deliberate over the question before you respond to it.
23  The speech was a deliberate attempt to embarrass the government.
24  We made a deliberate decision to live apart for a while.
25  Offered the new job, she asked for time to deliberate before she told them her decision,.
26  The dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness.
27  The story flowed from one scene to the other in deliberate pace.
28  Did the jury simply disregard the law to give Stanley a free pass to murder? Jury deliberations are kept secret by law, and can never become the basis for a factual appeal.
29  The preparations for attack are always made with a certain methodical deliberation.
30  He would also have seen that Iberville was smoking with deliberation, and drinking with a kind of mannered coolness.