CONSISTENTLY in a Sentence

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He has carried with him a light tackle called a whip, consisting of only two parts, travelling through a single-sheaved block.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSISTENTLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
consistently
 ad.  steadily; regularly; constantly; always
Classic Sentence: (200 in 14 pages)
1  "Of course, they must be kept down, consistently, steadily, as I should," said Alfred, setting his foot hard down as if he were standing on somebody.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  But Hilda was consistently modest and maidenly.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
3  He considered it necessary to sigh, but neglected to be consistently sorrowful.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
4  This idea tickled Jo's fancy and put her in good spirits, but Meg didn't brighten, for her burden, consisting of four spoiled children, seemed heavier than ever.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
5  we had another meal, consisting of a small mug of coffee, and half-a-slice of brown bread.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  The emperor of Blefuscu, having taken three days to consult, returned an answer consisting of many civilities and excuses.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
7  The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII.
8  And he emptied his pockets on the table, the contents consisting of a dozen gold pieces, five or six five-franc pieces, and some smaller coin.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. Father and Son.
9  But on the following day the family from whom all these particulars had been asked received a handsome present, consisting of an entirely new fishing-boat, with two seines and a tender.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25. The Unknown.
10  It also boasted of what in Languedoc is styled a garden, consisting of a small plot of ground, on the side opposite to the main entrance reserved for the reception of guests.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
11  It was of a conical shape, some ten feet high; consisting of the long, huge slabs of limber black bone taken from the middle and highest part of the jaws of the right-whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
12  He has carried with him a light tackle called a whip, consisting of only two parts, travelling through a single-sheaved block.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
13  About a block away from them there lived another Lithuanian family, consisting of an elderly widow and one grown son; their name was Majauszkis, and our friends struck up an acquaintance with them before long.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
14  It was a fortress of no great size, consisting of a donjon, or large and high square tower, surrounded by buildings of inferior height, which were encircled by an inner court-yard.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  On a shelf over the pans was a smooth and solid yellow mass of a hemispherical form, consisting of beeswax from the same take of honey.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
Example Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
16  The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries.
17  This pleasure consisted in prospect of noble summits girdling a great hill-hollow, rich in verdure and shadow; in a bright beck, full of dark stones and sparkling eddies.
18  It consisted in a peculiar bird-like turn, a sort of liquid warble, produced by touching the tongue to the roof of the mouth at short intervals in the midst of the music -- the reader probably remembers how to do it, if he has ever been a boy.
19  Part of the little raft's belongings consisted of an old sail, and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in good weather, as became outlaws.
20  Health does not consist with intemperance.
21  Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
22  Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
23  Love doesn't consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
24  True education does not consist in simply being taught facts.
25  A home does not consist in the quality of its architecture and decoration.
26  A sudden renewed interest in action movies from the early nineties whose titles consist of three words, one of which is usually either “kill”, “law” or “justice”.
27  The destroyer's armament consist of several small cannon, two torpedo tube and a number of anti-craft gun.
28  Too often, picnic preparation consists of throwing together some sandwiches and grabbing an apple.
29  In Britain, the traditional Sunday lunch consists of roast meat, potatoes and other vegetables.
30  Routine maintenance of the garden consists of keeping weeds under control.