Example sentences for: legitimately

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

  • If the box office refuses to sell in bulk, they will offer to buy spare tickets from people who have come by them legitimately and perhaps hire people to stand in line.

  • For now, at least, given the problems inherent in current fMRI technology, the neuroethical nightmare scenarios of widespread brain scanning seem unlikely to come to pass, at least until radical advances make it far cheaper, much less invasive, far less sensitive to subtle perturbations, and with a much more robust ability to legitimately extrapolate from a finding about a group to a prediction about an individual.

  • beat Pat Buchanan," and therefore "can legitimately say he is the candidate of the Christian right," establishing himself as "one of the winners," the "three or four" candidates who "got their tickets punched" to stay in the race.

  • His teams are teams . (In Parcells' coaching career, he has had only one player who can legitimately be called a superstar: Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor.

  • In other words, you could legitimately state that "The Labour Party represents the interests of organized labor in the U.K." To modify the names of people and organizations to fit a localized spelling style is to show disrespect to the owners of those names, and condescension to your readers.


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