Example sentences for: properly

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

  • During development, cells need to communicate with each other to establish properly organised and functional tissues.

  • The police, however, provided the "tipping point" that accelerated a process that you properly note: Crime had been slowly dropping for some period of time.

  • A similar notion surrounds the word till , which many would suggest is a somehow less formal shortening of until , the shortening of which is properly written 'til . As it happens, the original form was till , with until being formed from unto `up to' + till . The citations in the OED , which are rather thin on the ground for early 13th-century (Middle) English, show the two forms to be of virtually contemporaneous origin.

  • Note that even if a sewing machine is properly adjusted for sewing a particular weight and color of fabric, it will generally need to be adjusted again if the fabric color changes because the mechanical properties of a given type of fabric can depend on the dye color used.

  • Some of the words in my sampling may or may not be Hindi loanwords; that is, etymologists are uncertain whether they are properly attributable to Hindi or some other language of the subcontinent.


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