SQUARELY in a Sentence

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257 example sentences for SQUARELY, such as:

1. He had a firm, square jaw.
2. The rooms are all very square.
3. He plunged squarely into the business.
4. He laid the square table with a tablecloth.
5. Your statement doesn't square with the facts.

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 Meanings and Examples of SQUARELY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
squarely
 ad.  solidly; in a straight direct way; in a square shape
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "Scarlett is my sister-in-law, too," said Melanie, meeting India's eyes squarely as though they were strangers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
2  Rhett looked her squarely in the eyes, his face blank.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  Gerty had tried to veil her failure in tender ambiguities; but Carry, always the soul of candour, put the case squarely to her friend.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4  He rose with a start which left the rocking-chair quivering on its beam ends, and placed himself squarely before her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
5  He looked squarely at her; she was conscious of the pupils of his eyes; of the fact that he was a man, and lonely.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  And Jurgis looked the fellow squarely in the eye, and so the fellow wasted no time in conventional protests, but read him the deed.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  The front shifted a trifle to meet it squarely.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
8  One window, glowing a deep murder red, shone squarely through the leaves.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
9  He plunged squarely into the business.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIII
10  His big feet were planted squarely, with the heels together and the toes turned out.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
11  Vronsky was a squarely built, dark man, not very tall, with a good-humored, handsome, and exceedingly calm and resolute face.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
12  A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
13  Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on the cuirassiers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
14  The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the squares at a gallop.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
15  The cuirassiers hurled themselves on the English squares.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
Example Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
16  The rooms are all very square.
17  There was a square with trees and grass in it in the center of the city.
18  A square has four corners; a cube has eight.
19  His finger nails were square and cut neatly across.
20  He had a firm, square jaw.
21  They haven't had a square meal for four or five days.
22  He is the proverbial square peg in a round hole.
23  I've declined the invitation to the Royal Garden Party; I'd just to be a square peg in a round hole among all those posh people.
24  They've booked us into the hotel in the main square.
25  People say that a strong square jaw is a sign of firm.
26  Your statement doesn't square with the facts.
27  Tell the children to stay out of the square while people are holding a mass rally.
28  He laid the square table with a tablecloth.
29  Your theory doesn't square with the known facts.
30  I've been so busy I haven't had a square meal in three days.