Example sentences for: rightfully

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

  • You rightfully report my "lament" at the displacement of an embedded First Amendment, and then quote my argument about the increasing power of government to zone cyberspace.

  • He rightfully criticizes the current exclusionary rule for not serving as an effective to police misconduct.

  • I have it on good authority that the main reason that Monica hasn't taken a job or even done volunteer work during her ordeal is that she is rightfully fearful that her co-workers would immediately sell her out to the tabloids.

  • Serbs, believing that Kosovo still rightfully belonged to them, did briefly conquer it in 1877 when, along with Russia, the new Serbian state made war on Turkey.

  • In more or less linear fashion, it tells the story of a violent thief, Porter (Mel Gibson), who, left for dead after a double-cross, re-emerges with an implacable determination to avenge himself on his ex-partner, Val (Gregg Henry), and reclaim some $70,000 that is rightfully his--rightfully in the sense that he's the one who actually stole it.


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