Example sentences for: admirably

How can you use “admirably” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Writing in the pages of Slate , Bruce Gottlieb is admirably forthright in his condemnation.

  • Bosworth, the biographer of Diane Arbus and Montgomery Clift, "provides a vivid sense of upper-middle-class life in the early Cold War years, when prominent citizens suddenly turned their backs on colleagues such as Crum and called them Communist dupes," writes Kathy Deacon in the Village Voice . In the New York Times Book Review , Richard Lingeman says Bosworth "tells her elegiac story in a tone that is admirably restrained, in prose that conveys strong feeling by understatement."

  • Rather than focusing on those arguments, Richard wants to defend "libertarianism"--a cause that he has admirably defended for a great deal of time.

  • McCollum (now one of the House managers, I believe) told North that he had "served your country admirably" and that he was "a dedicated, patriotic soldier" for whom McCollum and the country was "grateful."

  • the locomotive, a diesel-burning Class 2900 Santa Fe 4-8-4 that had been constructed in 1943 but had survived the decades most admirably and now gleamed like a Secret Service agent's lapel pin, was gaining speed swiftly, its one hundred and five tons departing another whistle-stop in another anonymous town whose inhabitants clustered where the rails seemed to converge, their fluttering hands and smiling faces congealed into a tuberous mirage that already was beginning to deliquesce, its bipedal spores gamboling away from the station where, only moments before, the candidates had stood to receive the traditional accolade from the traditional close-packed crowd.


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