INVARIABLY in a Sentence

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That they were invariably clean, that his were the scoured fingers of the surgeon, made his stubborn untidiness the more jarring.

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 Meanings and Examples of INVARIABLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
invariably
 ad.  constantly; always
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  That they were invariably clean, that his were the scoured fingers of the surgeon, made his stubborn untidiness the more jarring.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  But butchers, also, and butchers of the bloodiest badge have been all Martial Commanders whom the world invariably delights to honour.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.
3  Whereas, among spouting fish the tail, though it may be similarly shaped, invariably assumes a horizontal position.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
4  Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
5  So that with ease he elevates it in the air, and invariably does so when going at his utmost speed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
6  Almost invariably it is all over obliquely crossed and re-crossed with numberless straight marks in thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line engravings.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
7  It has before been hinted, perhaps, that every little untoward circumstance that befell him, and which indirectly sprang from his luckless mishap, almost invariably irritated or exasperated Ahab.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
8  Mrs. Harling and Antonia invariably took her part.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
9  The swift punishment which invariably follows these horrible crimes doubtless acts as a deterring effect upon the Negroes in that immediate neighborhood for a short time.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
10  The Negro tough, on the contrary, is given to just that kind of offending, and he almost invariably singles out white people as his victims.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
11  I know of such cases; and it is worthy of remark that such slaves invariably suffer greater hardships, and have more to contend with, than others.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  He had tried several times, and only succeeded in half choking himself; and invariably finished by tearing up the paper, wiping his eyes, and rushing somewhere to get quiet.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
13  It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
14  When any one spoke to him he invariably laughed in an agreeable, colorless way.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  The child had a native grace which does not invariably co-exist with faultless beauty; its attire, however simple, always impressed the beholder as if it were the very garb that precisely became it best.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
Example Sentence:
1  When my wife sets her mind on something, she invariably finds a way to achieve it.
2  Acupuncture treatment is gentle, painless, and, invariably, most relaxing.
3  Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.
4  This acute infection of the brain is almost invariably fatal.
5  A frown seemed out of place on his invariably jovial face.
6  Children invariably get involved in such a squabble; wise parents know when to interfere and when to let the children work things out on their own.