SPECIALLY in a Sentence

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Among the friends we make in life,there are only one or two who can be called "a special friend" and that's how I think of you.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPECIALLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
specially
 ad.  to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common
 ad.  in a special manner
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The settee is specially reserved for my guests.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
2  And that way he made, and then applied himself to his new duties with a zeal born of the fact that he realised that fortune had specially marked him out for a Customs officer.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
3  Sprawling in the foreground of the picture was a swarthy warrior in a helmet, specially conspicuous for his rotund contours.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  He never lent money to anyone, but I had, on entering the service, been specially recommended to him by an important personage who had got me my berth.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
5  All who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a specially amiable mood that day.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
6  Prince Andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young man and help him to worldly success.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX
7  He became animated when he began reading his paper and specially drew Rostov's attention to the stinging rejoinders he made to his enemies.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVIII
8  And it had to happen that he should come specially to Petersburg while we are here.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXII
9  Here Balashev hesitated: he remembered the words the Emperor Alexander had not written in his letter, but had specially inserted in the rescript to Saltykov and had told Balashev to repeat to Napoleon.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI
10  All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
11  All that he had been specially put in charge of, the state property which he should have removed, was still in Moscow and it was no longer possible to take the whole of it away.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIV
12  In historic events the rule forbidding us to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge is specially applicable.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV
13  Karataev had told it to him alone some half-dozen times and always with a specially joyful emotion.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIII
14  He screwed up his eyes with a dissatisfied look as he gazed attentively and fixedly at these prisoners, who presented a specially wretched appearance.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER VI
15  The Emperor's displeasure with Kutuzov was specially increased at Vilna by the fact that Kutuzov evidently could not or would not understand the importance of the coming campaign.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (178 in 12 pages)
16  The government will have to create a special agency to underwrite small business loans.
17  The school will only allow this in special circumstances.
18  Among the friends we make in life,there are only one or two who can be called "a special friend" and that's how I think of you.
19  I don't have anything special to discuss.
20  Do not keep anything for a special occasion, because every day that you live is a special occasion.
21  A special relationship exists between the sitter and the artist.
22  Attention is drawn to a special voluntary course in Commercial French.
23  He must be extra special, because he is marrying a lovely girl.
24  The direct marketing industry has become adept at packaging special offers.
25  On this special day I send you New Year's greetings and hope that some day soon we shall be together.
26  Tonight is a very special occasion.
27  The training centre provides special help for the long-term unemployed.
28  There are those who eat out for a special occasion, or treat themselves.
29  As a special treat, I'll take you to my favourite tea-shop.
30  Lettie had never yet failed to return from town without some special treat for him.