CAREFULLY in a Sentence

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For CAREFULLY, below is one of 420 sentences:
But Scarlett carefully folded up the letter without finishing it and thrust it back into the envelope, too bored to read further.

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 Meanings and Examples of CAREFULLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
carefully
 ad.  taking care or paying attention
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She set the lamp on the table, and he saw that it was carefully laid for supper, with fresh doughnuts, stewed blueberries and his favourite pickles in a dish of gay red glass.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The table had been as carefully laid, a clear fire glowed in the stove, the cat dozed in its warmth, and Mattie came forward carrying a plate of doughnuts.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  He bent down, feeling in the obscurity for the glassy slide worn by preceding coasters, and placed the runners carefully between its edges.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  She went quietly down the front steps, looking carefully over her shoulder to make sure Mammy was not observing her from the upstairs windows.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  Gerald helped his wife into the carriage and gave orders to the coachman to drive carefully.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  When she spoke, her voice was not so slurred as most negroes' and she chose her words more carefully.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  She was a brown little creature, with skinny legs like a bird and a myriad of pigtails carefully wrapped with twine sticking stiffly out from her head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  Mammy carefully dropped the twelve yards of green sprigged muslin over the mountainous petticoats and hooked up the back of the tight, low-cut basque.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  Mammy plucked a large towel from the washstand and carefully tied it around Scarlett's neck, spreading the white folds over her lap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  She nodded and he carefully handed her down the front steps and led her across the grass to the iron bench beneath the largest oak in the front yard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  She carefully smoothed out the letter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  But Scarlett carefully folded up the letter without finishing it and thrust it back into the envelope, too bored to read further.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  She sighed as she carefully tied the ribbon about the packet, wondering for the thousandth time just what it was in Ashley that eluded her understanding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  The line was so closely, so carefully drawn where gifts from men were concerned.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  She held the coin carefully between finger and thumb.
17  He carefully lifted the lid of the box.
18  If we budget carefully, we'll be able to afford a new house.
19  If we budget carefully we'll be able to afford the trip.
20  We'll have to budget more carefully in the future.
21  Check the tiles carefully before you buy them.
22  We have lots of applications from people who want to study here and in each case we consider the candidate very carefully.
23  Each case must be carefully examined.
24  All candidates are carefully vetted by Central Office.
25  Please check your flight timings carefully.
26  He must check his work more carefully it's full of mistakes.
27  If you look carefully you can just see the church from here.
28  I invite every citizen to carefully study the document.
29  He put the idea by until he was at leisure to consider it carefully.
30  She carefully tried to balance religious sensitivities against democratic freedom.