Example sentences for: duly

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

  • Wouldn't it, we asked him, be a recipe for a balance of payments crisis (which duly materialized a few months later)?

  • The headword toad is duly glossed, as padda, karta , and then--quite needlessly--illustrated, with this remarkably elucidating sentence: the toad was delighted to see his mother again .

  • And I only praised Giuliani's press strategy for instilling the kind of staff loyalty that Al Gore so desperately needs; I duly noted that it's "overly suspicious and vituperative."

  • The Spanish crown duly passed to the Hapsburgs, and Spain remained in their hands until the feeble-minded Carlos II died in 1700, leaving no heir.

  • But after the requisite barb-trading with the White House, and a much-photographed round of negotiations in which the sanctity of Social Security and the need to invest in our nation's children are duly invoked, it would be a blessing if Congress would quietly pass a continuing resolution keeping spending more or less where it currently is, and then take to the hustings, where each party can blame the other for doing what's best for the country--nothing.


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