+300 Adverbs Sentences Examples, Adverbs in a Sentence
abroad
He went abroad to raise fund for the project.
accidentally
Alex accidentally ate some rat poison.
acutely
he busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
actually
This crooked old man wasn’t actually right what you thought.
almost
A lot of people think Formula One isn’t a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we’re pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.
always
‘Tis always morning somewhere in the world.
anxiously
She rubbed anxiously at her wrist.
awkwardly
Customers left the cafe as the waiter awkwardly took orders from customers.
bashfully
Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.
beautifully
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
bitterly
I can see that you spoke in ignorance, and I bitterly regret that I should have been so petty as to take offence where none was intended.
blindly
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
boldly
I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.
bravely
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause.
briefly
“That’s a sweet piece,” said Jean, briefly forgetting to be aggravated.
brightly
Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You’ve got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I’ve got my Freud mixed up. It’s just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
briskly
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
calmly
He calmly watched TV.
carefully
Drive your car carefully if the wild wind blows.
carelessly
He carelessly put it on the table.
certainly
An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
cheerfully
It was morning through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.
clearly
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
closely
Alex closely resembles his father.
commonly
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
continually
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men’s souls.
correctly
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.
cruelly
One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.
daily
But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.
deeply
And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
defiantly
The only intelligent tactical response to life’s horror is to laugh defiantly at it.
deliberately
Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.
easily
A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
enormously
For the life of me, I don’t understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.
enthusiastically
People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
equally
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
especially
‘Handsome’ means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered – and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn’t hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.
even
“Why even call it a fuck? Why not be clear and call it a seminal emission in a preapproved orifice?
evenly
Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words ‘gay marriage’ are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.
eventually
I think you should eventually change your style.
exactly
A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn’t the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.
extremely
Albatross is an extremely wild but determined wild bird.
fairly
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
far
A good expository paper will benefit far more people than most research papers.
fast
A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
fiercely
I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.
fondly
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
foolishly
I foolishly interpreted the idiom according to its literal sense.
fortunately
Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there’s no reason to get up in the morning.
frankly
Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.
freely
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
fully
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
generally
Horses are generally considered to be pleasant animals, whereas lizards are generally hated.
generously
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
gently
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
gladly
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
greatly
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
happily
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don’t know one who wouldn’t fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
hastily
Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
heavily
It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
highly
Being right is highly overrated. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
honestly
Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?
hopelessly
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn’t doing.
hungrily
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
immediately
He had to continue his work immediately because it was too late.
instantly
Frank knew instantly that something was wrong.
intensely
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
intently
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. ‘I’ll have to admit that he’s a very competent scholar.
justly
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
keenly
Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.
kindly
Frank kindly pretended not to notice that Jessica had been crying.
knowingly
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
lightly
He lightly covered it.
likely
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I’m more likely to listen to rock music.
lively
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum….
longingly
Do good works or commission an opera house or just take it out and gaze at it longingly when you think of the handsome prince you might have made your own.
loudly
Do not speak loudly in the operating room.
lovingly
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
madly
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge.
meaningfully
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
miserably
I failed miserably at trying not to fall in love with you.
monthly
How much is the monthly fee of this swimming school?
more
‘Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
mostly
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
mysteriously
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
naturally
He speaks Spanish not only naturally but also fluently.
nearly
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
neatly
Can you wrap these neatly for me?
nervously
Chiron and Grover glanced nervously at the sky.
never
“Almost” never killed a fly (was never hanged).
nicely
She had a nicely breakfast.
not
‘Home Alone’ was a movie, not an alibi.
oddly
For a moment Magnus looked oddly vulnerable.
officially
Hey, heart. Are you listening? You and I are officially at war.
often
A blind person’s hearing is often very acute.
only
She not only dance extraordinary but also sing perfectly.
openly
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
painfully
My mom is painfully sweet she’s from Nebraska.
partially
All we need to understand my friends, is that human life was given equally to us all, not partially but in totality.
patiently
Bear patiently with a rival.
perfectly
A good businessman never makes a contract unless he’s sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
physically
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
politely
Alex politely corrected me.
poorly
Frank was poorly educated.
positively
I always appreciate people who look at life positively and live actively.
potentially
A potentially unwanted program (PUP) or potentially unwanted application (PUA) is software that a user may perceive as unwanted or unnecessary.
powerfully
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully – love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion.
promptly
Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
properly
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
quicker
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
quickly
A container is a standard unit of software that packages up code and all its dependencies so the application runs quickly and reliably from one computing.
quietly
Alex quietly sneaked out of the room.
randomly
Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
rapidly
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
rarely
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.
readily
I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.
really
I really enjoyed that movie. Nevertheless, I prefer the book.
regularly
I’d skip school regularly to see movies – even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.
reluctantly
Alex reluctantly accepted the gift.
repeatedly
Congressman Berg will repeatedly talk about Harry Reid and Barack Obama, and I find it interesting, because this morning, when I woke up and brushed my teeth, I looked in the mirror and I did not see a tall, African-American, skinny man. So let’s make it clear that my priorities are North Dakota priorities.
rigidly
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
roughly
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
rudely
He rudely turned his back to the principal.
safely
At heart, I have always been a coper, I’ve mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I’ve always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown.
scarcely
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
scarily
His voice was scratchy, and he sounded scarily weak, but his eyes sparkled with humor.
seemingly
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
seldom
A threatened blow is seldom given.
seriously
Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
sharply
It contrasts sharply with its surroundings.
sheepishly
I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.
shyly
My sister glanced shyly at him.
silently
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
slowly
An adult life…is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.
softly
A mother’s body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it’s own entreaties to body and soul.
solemnly
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
sometimes
You are important for me; nonetheless, sometimes I feel like you don’t even take care of me.
soon
As soon as Marry arrives in the room, I will start telling her what we are experiencing today.
strictly
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth – in short, materialism – does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
successfully
He successfully graduated from university but still cannot find a job.
suddenly
Alex suddenly braked.
supposedly
Making girls monitor their behavior and their appearance because boys are supposedly unable to control themselves? That is one of the oldest fucking tricks in the book.
surprisingly
All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.
suspiciously
Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.
swiftly
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
terribly
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
thankfully
Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
thoroughly
Frank was thoroughly depressed.
tightly
Freedom of speech was tightly restricted.
tomorrow
Whether you agree with me or not, I’m going for a jog on the beach early tomorrow morning.
too
“You’re such a girl,” she chided, but somehow the words came out too soft…too tender, and ended up sounding like a compliment.
truly
A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.
ultimately
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
unbearably
I saw the world from the stars’ point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.
unexpectedly
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate.
unfortunately
Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom’s best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.
unnecessarily
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
upright
I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
upward
Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
urgently
Your prompt reply is urgently required.
usually
She usually eats at home, because she likes cooking.
utterly
Elegant, feminine, and utterly wild. Warm, and steadfast—unbreakable, his queen.
vacantly
I’m always so glad I have no idea what you’re vacantly chatting about,” said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.
vaguely
My brother vaguely remembers meeting Jessica.
vastly
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
verbally
Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.
very
‘UFO’s’ attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It’s not an advocacy its philosophy is more ‘I want to believe this, but I want it proved.’
violently
A tornado is a violently turning pipe of air suspended from a dense cloud.
warmly
My colleagues warmly welcomed me.
wearily
Alex joined wearily the class.
well
If he hadn’t learnt all the prepositions by heart, I couldn’t have done well on the test.
wholly
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.
wildly
I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.
willfully
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
wisely
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
woefully
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak they are manners, morals, and medicine.
wonderfully
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
wrongly
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
yesterday
And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.
