ABSOLUTELY in a Sentence

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318 example sentences for ABSOLUTELY, such as:
1. I'm absolutely positive it was him.
2. Lucy is absolutely devoted to her cats.
3. All these knives are absolutely lethal.
4. The football pitch was absolutely sodden.
5. I mean, but for you I am absolutely nothing.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ABSOLUTELY
absolutely
 ad.  totally and definitely; without question
 ad.  completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
2  But the pen she held thus on the little table absolutely refused to move.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
3  But Mrs. Manresa absolutely refused to take his seat.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
4  He had established a confidence with her, that absolutely turned upon her indifference towards her husband, and the absence, now and at all times, of any congeniality between them.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
5  Yet he was absolutely dependent on her, he needed her every moment.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  She knew that he didn't mind whether she were demi-vierge or demi-monde, so long as he didn't absolutely know, and wasn't made to see.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  It was part of his very being that he must break off any connexion, and be loose, isolated, absolutely lone dog again.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  Then he turned the coop over and deliberated, and he gave absolutely no sign of awareness of the woman's presence.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
10  She was handsome too, pale, her face rather long and absolutely still, her eyes bright, but revealing nothing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  She loved having his body in her charge, absolutely, to the last menial offices.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
12  I mean, but for you I am absolutely nothing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  Connie was absolutely afraid of the industrial masses.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
14  I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
15  He kept a quiet distance of his own, and seemed absolutely unwilling to speak.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
Example Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
1  Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
2  Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us.
3  I was absolutely staggered when I saw the bill.
4  She's absolutely certain she's going to make it in the world.
5  I'm absolutely starving -- I missed lunch.
6  I'm absolutely positive it was him.
7  He was absolutely mesmerised by Pavarotti on television.
8  That meeting achieved absolutely nothing - it was a complete waste of time.
9  The football pitch was absolutely sodden.
10  It is desperately sad news and I am absolutely shattered to hear it.
11  Lucy is absolutely devoted to her cats.
12  Kozelek expresses his sense of desolation absolutely without self-pity.
13  All these knives are absolutely lethal.
14  It is absolutely vital that food supplies should be maintained.
15  It's an absolutely instinctive reaction—if a child falls you pick it up.