PERFECTLY in a Sentence

Learn PERFECTLY 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.
375 example sentences for PERFECTLY, such as:
1. Her features turned perfectly livid.
2. This is a perfectly lawful activity.
3. The artist has caught her smile perfectly.
4. I'm perfectly willing to discuss the problem.
5. She sat wrapped in her shawl, perfectly still.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PERFECTLY
perfectly
 ad.  completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
 ad.  in a perfect or faultless way
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Her features turned perfectly livid.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2  As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
3  Up she scrambled, putting her hands to hair as if it were high time that she went too, though it was nothing of the kind and her hair was perfectly tidy.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
4  The gramophone, while the scene was removed, gently stated certain facts which everybody knows to be perfectly true.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
5  He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
6  "I have no doubt you are perfectly right," he said at last, getting to his feet.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
7  She sat wrapped in her shawl, perfectly still.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
8  I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
9  It was on this occasion, as during his whole life, John's misfortune, not perfectly to understand the characters of those whom he wished to conciliate.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  Locksley returned almost instantly with a willow wand about six feet in length, perfectly straight, and rather thicker than a man's thumb.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  Unprepared for such a desperate effort, for she had hitherto stood perfectly motionless, Bois-Guilbert had neither time to intercept nor to stop her.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  She was perfectly dim and dazed, looking down in a sort of amazement at the rather tender nape of his neck, feeling his face pressing her thighs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  Mellors took the chair again, looking perfectly unheeding, yet Connie felt he noted everything.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  She understood perfectly well why people had cocktail parties, and jazzed, and Charlestoned till they were ready to drop.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
15  His manner was so perfectly easy and good, she stepped over the threshold into the rather dreary little room.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (165 in 12 pages)
1  This is a perfectly lawful activity.
2  The artist has caught her smile perfectly.
3  The artist had rendered her gentle smile perfectly.
4  They're perfectly within their rights to ask to see the report.
5  It is perfectly capable of wiping out even the largest enemy unit.
6  There were perfectly cogent reasons why Julian Cavendish should be told of the Major's impending return.
7  There's no reason why you can't have a perfectly normal child.
8  It is perfectly legal to charge extra for these services.
9  Windsurfing is perfectly safe as long as you have/use some common sense.
10  This is a perfectly normal stage of development.
11  Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
12  She was surprised to discover he was perfectly capable around the house.
13  They were thrilled to discover a perfectly preserved specimen of Roman pottery.
14  I'm perfectly willing to discuss the problem.
15  A billiard - table must be perfectly even.