DULY in a Sentence

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46 example sentences for DULY, such as:

1. Your letter is duly to hand.
2. She was duly summoned for an interview.
3. He knew he had been wrong, and duly apologized.
4. My pence were duly paid, and the rest is familiar to you.
5. The fans were looking for another goal and Owen duly obliged.

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 Meanings and Examples of DULY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
duly
 ad.  as it ought to be; properly; regularly
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  As to what occurred there, we cannot do better than quote the old hunter's own account, as duly recorded in Dr. Watson's Journal, to which we are already under such obligations.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  Whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
4  Giving the waiter to the personage before mentioned, as a block-head duly qualified for that consignment, Mr. Harthouse hurried into the gallery.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
5  Michaelis arrived duly, in a very neat car, with a chauffeur and a manservant.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  The living was hereafter for Edmund; and, had his uncle died a few years sooner, it would have been duly given to some friend to hold till he were old enough for orders.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  As nothing was really left for the decision of Mrs. Price, or the good offices of Rebecca, everything was rationally and duly accomplished, and the girls were ready for the morrow.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
8  The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  Festival fires to Thor and Woden had followed on the same ground and duly had their day.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
10  My pence were duly paid, and the rest is familiar to you.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
11  The will was duly finished, signed, and witnessed by my clerk.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
12  That night at Mrs. Elsing's, when Fanny had been duly married and old Levi and the other musicians were tuning up for the dance, Scarlett looked about her with gladness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  Lily was duly impressed by the magnitude of her opportunities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
14  Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
15  Of those fine cavaliers, the young Dons, Pedro and Sebastian, were on the closer terms with me; and hence the interluding questions they occasionally put, and which are duly answered at the time.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
Example Sentence:
1  He knew he had been wrong, and duly apologized.
2  The fans were looking for another goal and Owen duly obliged.
3  Your letter is duly to hand.
4  She was duly summoned for an interview.
5  A group of men were charged to conspire against the duly elected government.
6  The Senate duly approved Mr Rajoy's request to apply Article 155 of the constitution; it grants the government wide powers to compel a region to obey the constitution.