COMPLETELY in a Sentence

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For COMPLETELY, below is one of 420 sentences:
"Maybe there won't be any war," Mrs. Tarleton temporized, her mind diverted completely from the Wilkeses' odd marriage habits.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPLETELY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
completely
 ad.  with everything necessary
 ad.  to the full or entire extent
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Her glance fell on his hand, which now completely covered the end of her work and grasped it as if it were a part of herself.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  He gave no thought to his conversation of the day before with Scarlett, for it had completely slipped his mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  Ellen ignored these matters completely.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  "Maybe there won't be any war," Mrs. Tarleton temporized, her mind diverted completely from the Wilkeses' odd marriage habits.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  The dim room with towering walls completely filled with dark books depressed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  In the center of the hall the huge ugly lamp, hanging from the ceiling by rusty chains, was completely transformed by twining ivy and wild grapevines that were already withering from the heat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  Dr. Meade had begun to smile again, ignoring completely the indignant whispers that came from the Ladies' Hospital Committee in the corner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  She was helpless before his calm smile and his drawling remarks, for she had never before met anyone who was so completely impregnable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  And lots of times, after one kiss they fell completely in love with a girl and made most entertaining spectacles of themselves, provided the girl was clever and withheld her kisses after the first one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  Last week my old boots wore completely out, and I would have come home with sacks tied on my feet if we hadn't had the good luck to shoot two Yankee scouts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  He talked at length, laughed frequently and dominated the conversation more completely than she had ever seen him do before, but he seemed to say very little.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  These great earth-works were connected with rifle pits and they ran, mile after mile, completely encircling the city.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  Aunt Pitty completely forgot that the sight of blood always made her faint and she worked until her little feet in their too small shoes swelled and would no longer support her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  It wasn't possible that the quiet tenor of life could have changed so completely in so short a time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  It was incredible that she could be so completely alone, and frightened, and far from home.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  I'm hopeful and confident that the graduation ceremony will really be a completely new start.
17  The window frame had rotted away completely.
18  Don't worry; the deal was completely above board.
19  The mystery has not yet been completely solved.
20  His behaviour was completely beyond comprehension.
21  The board completely disregarded my recommendations.
22  If you think that these transport problems can be solved by building more roads, you completely misunderstand the nature of the problem.
23  The car was completely crushed under the truck.
24  The cell block stood just off the L-shaped charge room, a corridor almost completely without daylight.
25  The church was completely rebuilt in the last century.
26  The new road has completely spoiled the character of the village.
27  The choice of players for the team seemed completely arbitrary.
28  My car was completely wrecked in the accident.
29  Her criticisms had the effect of discouraging him completely.
30  He failed completely in the performance of his duty.