Example sentences for: rightly

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

  • Even Word's online Help (in recent versions an annoying talking paper clip that many people quite rightly refuse to interact with) doesn't seem to know about some things the program can do.

  • Chatterbox, who rarely disagrees with his Slate colleague Jacob Weisberg, a k a "Ballot Box," must dissent from Weisberg's view that Bill Bradley made Al Gore look like a jerk today on Meet the Press . As Weisberg rightly points out, the key moment was when Gore proposed to Bradley that they both agree to stop all television and radio advertising until the nomination is decided, and instead debate twice a week for the duration of the campaign.

  • The editorial continued, "He is rightly confident that that by such means he can maintain himself in power.

  • But the NATO campaign against Milosevic is often, and rightly, viewed as the victory of Albright's interventionist position over the more cautious views of colleagues such as National Security Adviser Samuel Berger and his predecessor Anthony Lake.

  • Back then, public broadcasting and the national endowments for the Arts and Humanities were (rightly) taken to task as mechanisms for transferring money from working-class families to a handful of elite subversives in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles.


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