CAREFULLY in a Sentence

Learn CAREFULLY 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 CAREFULLY, such as:
1. She carefully smoothed out the letter.
2. We made our way carefully along the ridge.
3. They carefully observed the behavior of deer.
4. My carefully laid plans had already gone awry.
5. He teed the ball up carefully and then teed off.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CAREFULLY
carefully
 ad.  as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact
 ad.  taking care or paying attention
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She set the lamp on the table, and he saw that it was carefully laid for supper, with fresh doughnuts, stewed blueberries and his favourite pickles in a dish of gay red glass.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The table had been as carefully laid, a clear fire glowed in the stove, the cat dozed in its warmth, and Mattie came forward carrying a plate of doughnuts.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  He bent down, feeling in the obscurity for the glassy slide worn by preceding coasters, and placed the runners carefully between its edges.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  She went quietly down the front steps, looking carefully over her shoulder to make sure Mammy was not observing her from the upstairs windows.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  Gerald helped his wife into the carriage and gave orders to the coachman to drive carefully.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  When she spoke, her voice was not so slurred as most negroes' and she chose her words more carefully.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  She was a brown little creature, with skinny legs like a bird and a myriad of pigtails carefully wrapped with twine sticking stiffly out from her head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  Mammy carefully dropped the twelve yards of green sprigged muslin over the mountainous petticoats and hooked up the back of the tight, low-cut basque.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  Mammy plucked a large towel from the washstand and carefully tied it around Scarlett's neck, spreading the white folds over her lap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  She nodded and he carefully handed her down the front steps and led her across the grass to the iron bench beneath the largest oak in the front yard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  She carefully smoothed out the letter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  But Scarlett carefully folded up the letter without finishing it and thrust it back into the envelope, too bored to read further.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  She sighed as she carefully tied the ribbon about the packet, wondering for the thousandth time just what it was in Ashley that eluded her understanding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  The line was so closely, so carefully drawn where gifts from men were concerned.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Peace could come only gradually, in carefully measured steps.
2  We made our way carefully along the ridge.
3  My carefully laid plans had already gone awry.
4  Although I poured it carefully, I still managed to spill some.
5  Listen carefully to the answer and make sure that your next question follows on.
6  Wednesday she listened carefully as Attorney General Janet Reno testified in a subcommittee hearing on youth, violence and drugs.
7  He teed the ball up carefully and then teed off.
8  She carefully scraped away the top layer of paint.
9  However carefully I explained, she still didn't understand.
10  All our hotels have been carefully selected for the excellent value they provide.
11  You have to treat our video recorder very carefully - it's rather temperamental.
12  His voice was harsh as he enunciated each word carefully.
13  As the hillside was covered with snow, we had to walk up carefully.
14  If you watch carefully, you'll see how it is done.
15  They carefully observed the behavior of deer.