FINELY in a Sentence

Learn FINELY 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.
372 example sentences for FINELY, such as:
1. She is really a fine artist.
2. Any day of the week is fine.
3. He deals in antiques and fine art.
4. Apply the paint with a fine brush.
5. The cement need not be finely ground.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FINELY
finely
 ad.  in a delicate manner
 ad.  in tiny pieces
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He turned towards his friend's face and saw there a raw smile which some force of will strove to make finely significant.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
3  His finely chiselled nostrils quivered, and some hidden nerve shook the scarlet of his lips and left them trembling.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
4  He was not so finely bred as his sister.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
5  Those finely shaped fingers could never have clutched a knife for sin, nor those smiling lips have cried out on God and goodness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
6  With subtle and finely wrought temperaments it is always so.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
7  They had few recollections of past wealth and splendor--and the Yankee officers were so handsome and finely dressed and so carefree.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  So long as each of them could bring home nine or ten dollars a week, they were able to get along finely.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
9  The young Huron was in his war paint, and very little of a finely molded form was concealed by his attire.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
10  They were in truth fighting finely down there.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
11  He scrambled upon a wee hill and watched it sweeping finely, keeping formation in difficult places.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
12  We shall be finely helped, if the churl Saxons should have realized your Grace's vision, of converting feudal drawbridges into gibbets; and yonder bold-spirited Cedric seemeth one to whom such an imagination might occur.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  Her happiness on this occasion was very much a la mortal, finely chequered.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  The expression of her finely carved mouth was pleasant, as if a sense of dignity had just compelled her to leave off speaking.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
15  But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
Example Sentence: (162 in 11 pages)
1  The issues are finely balanced and there is no simple answer to the question.
2  The cement need not be finely ground.
3  Roughly chop the vegetables, and keep back a little to chop finely and serve as a garnish.
4  I won't mince the lean meat finely unless making dumplings.
5  If competition is the best way to achieve it, then, fine.
6  World is a fine place and worth fighting for.
7  The fine was for the company's pollution of the air near its plants.
8  In almost every face and every person, they may discover fine feathers and defects, good and bad qualities.
9  Any day of the week is fine.
10  Apply the paint with a fine brush.
11  He deals in antiques and fine art.
12  All the art of living lies in the fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
13  She is really a fine artist.
14  His refusal to pay the fine got him into even more trouble.
15  I knew that everything would turn out fine in the end.