Example sentences for: deliberately

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

  • He spends his days in Hong Kong's "blue" hotels, making daily, deliberately mysterious appearances on the factory floor in order to encourage productivity.

  • Researchers in Scotland and the U.S. have found evidence that adult male bottlenose dolphins sometimes deliberately beat their young to death.

  • Yes, ethnic hatred runs deep in the Balkans, but Milosevic had to deliberately fan it in order to start the war, and the genocide, like all genocides, was planned and executed by a relatively small group of extremely evil people.

  • Monica Lewinsky is useful "as a palliative for personal boredom," while Saddam Hussein is useful "as the excuse for the continued American presence in West Asia and as a regional bully to checkmate fundamentalist Iran's geopolitical ambitions" (which had been why the United States "deliberately stopped short of unseating Mr. Hussein" in 1991).

  • "He has built a government that cannot be brought down by any single party, surrounded himself with a deliberately weak cabinet, and left outside his government a demoralized and confused opposition of less than a third of the Knesset.


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