Example sentences for: summarily

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

  • The ostensible truth multiplier 1,000 percent (from George McGovern's 1972 avowal of support for his running mate, Thomas F. Eagleton, whom he claimed to support "1,000 percent" and then summarily dropped from the ticket) is now an ironic synonym for "don't bet on it" or even "not on your life."

  • Today's big story is the Senate's closed-door debate of a motion to summarily dismiss the charges against President Clinton.

  • In 1958, I was summarily dismissed as a troublemaker for asking seditiously, "What's with all those footballs, basketballs, tetherballs, and volleyballs, why do we have to play 'duck-duck-goose' every day?"

  • For many years afterwards, legends and rumors bizarrely insisted that the king was still alive, and imposters turned up from time to time claiming the throne; those who were plausible enough to be deemed a threat were summarily executed.

  • I was summarily turned down in a peremptory letter that questioned the possible usefulness of such an enterprise.


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