REALLY in a Sentence

Learn REALLY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for REALLY, such as:

1. She is really a fine artist.
2. Her attitude really pisses me off.
3. My attention wasn't really on the game.
4. She's an artist whose work I really admire.
5. Pete's attitude towards women really scares me.

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 Meanings and Examples of REALLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
really
 ad.  in actual fact
 ad.  in accordance with truth or reality
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  "Well, really, it can hardly be described as otherwise," said Sherlock Holmes, smiling at my surprise.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
3  They had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
4  Throughout the whole period of his seeming friendship with Pilkington, Napoleon had really been in secret agreement with Frederick.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
5  He's an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
6  I have really a very great interest in poor Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
7  He really liked Sissy too well to have a contempt for her; otherwise he held her calculating powers in such very slight estimation that he must have fallen upon that conclusion.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
8  It really did seem to impress him, to the utmost extent of his capacity of being impressed.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
9  Besides being a rough handling of his wounded mind, it seemed to assume that he really was the self-interested deserter he had been called.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V
10  From the House of Commons to the House of Correction, there is a general profession of morality, except among our people; it really is that exception which makes our people quite reviving.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
11  Although they had been so quiet since the first outbreak of the matter, that most people really did suppose it to have been abandoned as hopeless, nothing new occurred.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
12  The only doubt in Coketown was, whether Rachael had written in good faith, believing that he really would come back, or warning him to fly.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
13  Hear me, and I will tell thee of an enterprise, in which, if thou be'st really that which thou seemest, thou mayst take an honourable part.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  A woman could take a man without really giving herself away.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  The amazing, the profound, the unbelievable thrill there was in passionately talking to some really clever young man by the hour, resuming day after day for months.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The constraints of politeness wouldn't allow her to say what she really thought about his cooking.
17  I don't really get along with my sister's husband.
18  They have played me along for some time, without telling me what they really want to do.
19  It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it.
20  I can't believe I am really going to meet the princess.
21  First they announce their engagement and then they tell me Angie's pregnant - it's all a bit sudden really.
22  The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.
23  You will only pass your exams if you really apply yourself.
24  The article raised doubts about how effective the new drug really was.
25  She is really a fine artist.
26  These latest paintings show how the artist has really grown in maturity.
27  She's an artist whose work I really admire.
28  My attention wasn't really on the game.
29  Pete's attitude towards women really scares me.
30  Her attitude really pisses me off.