OBVIOUSLY in a Sentence

Learn OBVIOUSLY from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For OBVIOUSLY, below is one of 274 sentences:
But, because the offer was obviously and tactlessly for a service to be rendered, I had no choice except to cut him off there.

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 Meanings and Examples of OBVIOUSLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
obviously
 ad.  unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But, because the offer was obviously and tactlessly for a service to be rendered, I had no choice except to cut him off there.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  "Oh, yes," said Tom, gruffly polite but obviously not remembering.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
3  That night an obviously frightened person called up and demanded to know who I was before he would give his name.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
4  The first part of this was obviously untrue for someone had begun to whistle "The Rosary," tunelessly, inside.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
5  It was obviously made with the assurance that he could not live so long, and was refused.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVI
6  That would obviously be inconvenient and unpleasant to the customers, besides entailing on the Blue Whatever-it-was, the risk of funeral expenses.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
7  He had obviously prepared the sentence beforehand.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
8  He talked on, addressing both Kitty and Levin, turning his serene, friendly eyes from one to the other, and saying obviously just what came into his head.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
9  Vronsky listened attentively to Levin, as he always did listen, obviously interested in his words.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
10  Stereotyped as the phrase was, Madame Karenina obviously believed it and was delighted by it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 18
11  It was obviously difficult for him to think of what to say and do.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 25
12  And the celebrated doctor expounded his plan of treatment with Soden waters, a remedy obviously prescribed primarily on the ground that they could do no harm.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
13  She was obviously seeing nothing and no one but one man.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 28
14  Ivan, obviously doing his best to save her every minute of unnecessary labor, made haste, opening his arms to clutch the bundle and lay it in the cart.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 11
15  And vast sums of money had actually been spent and were still being spent on this business, and utterly unproductively, and the whole business could obviously lead to nothing whatever.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 14
Example Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
16  The media have obviously been gagged because nothing has been reported.
17  Now he was on a more obviously antisocial mission.
18  The newspaper editor is obviously in bed with the President.
19  The rebels are obviously intent on keeping up the pressure.
20  As far as I've seen, they don't overly pamper the girls even though obviously they are privileged.
21  You're obviously pretty confident nothing untoward is going to be happening in front of your webcam at these intervals!
22  The rusty, ivy covered Would War 2 tank had obviously been in stasis for years.
23  I'm confident that we can use the word victory right now, which obviously sounds very good for the first elected Asian mayor of the city.
24  Kennedy and 97 other senators voted 98-0 to confirm Scalia, Bork's intellectual soulmate, obviously, the Bork episode was not about jurisprudence.
25  “If the framework can actually be implemented, obviously it will be a big step in the right direction,” Mr. Johnson said.
26  It is already obvious that all four American systems have leapfrogged over the European versions.
27  Avoid making intuitively obvious but unfounded assertions.
28  The obvious way of reducing pollution is to use cars less.
29  There is an obvious contrast between the cultures of East and West.
30  Many see Parker as the obvious leader, whose voluble style works well on TV.