REALLY in a Sentence
Learn REALLY 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 REALLY, such as:
1. The agency really ripped us off.
2. The office was really humming with activity.
3. I really must do the washing this afternoon.
4. These clues don't really add up to very much.
5. I have really a very great interest in poor Hyde.
2. The office was really humming with activity.
3. I really must do the washing this afternoon.
4. These clues don't really add up to very much.
5. I have really a very great interest in poor Hyde.
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Meanings and Examples of REALLY
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really
ad. in actual fact
ad. in accordance with truth or fact or reality
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2 "Well, really, it can hardly be described as otherwise," said Sherlock Holmes, smiling at my surprise.
3 They had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen.
4 Throughout the whole period of his seeming friendship with Pilkington, Napoleon had really been in secret agreement with Frederick.
5 He's an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way.
6 I have really a very great interest in poor Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
7 He really liked Sissy too well to have a contempt for her; otherwise he held her calculating powers in such very slight estimation that he must have fallen upon that conclusion.
8 It really did seem to impress him, to the utmost extent of his capacity of being impressed.
9 Besides being a rough handling of his wounded mind, it seemed to assume that he really was the self-interested deserter he had been called.
10 From the House of Commons to the House of Correction, there is a general profession of morality, except among our people; it really is that exception which makes our people quite reviving.
11 Although they had been so quiet since the first outbreak of the matter, that most people really did suppose it to have been abandoned as hopeless, nothing new occurred.
12 The only doubt in Coketown was, whether Rachael had written in good faith, believing that he really would come back, or warning him to fly.
13 Hear me, and I will tell thee of an enterprise, in which, if thou be'st really that which thou seemest, thou mayst take an honourable part.
14 A woman could take a man without really giving herself away.
15 The amazing, the profound, the unbelievable thrill there was in passionately talking to some really clever young man by the hour, resuming day after day for months.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating, people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
2 It was absolutely horrible going up the hills 'cos they were really, really steep.
3 The difference between successful persons and others is that they really act.
4 The office was really humming with activity.
5 Much of the really nutritive material actually was refined out of food.
6 When you really look forward to something it's often an anticlimax when it actually happens.
7 These clues don't really add up to very much.
8 The most important thing is not to admit defeat until you really have to.
9 I really must do the washing this afternoon.
10 I feel really guilty at forgetting her birthday again.
11 I'm not going to let him repair my bike again because he made a really bad job of it last time.
12 When you really love someone, age, distance, height and weight are just numbers.
13 The four men arrested were described as really big fish by the U.
14 We need an Environment Agency that really has teeth.
15 The agency really ripped us off.