PERFECTLY in a Sentence

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I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERFECTLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
perfectly
 ad.  completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
 ad.  in a perfect or faultless way
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Her features turned perfectly livid.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2  As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
3  Up she scrambled, putting her hands to hair as if it were high time that she went too, though it was nothing of the kind and her hair was perfectly tidy.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
4  The gramophone, while the scene was removed, gently stated certain facts which everybody knows to be perfectly true.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
5  He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
6  "I have no doubt you are perfectly right," he said at last, getting to his feet.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
7  She sat wrapped in her shawl, perfectly still.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
8  I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
9  It was on this occasion, as during his whole life, John's misfortune, not perfectly to understand the characters of those whom he wished to conciliate.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  Locksley returned almost instantly with a willow wand about six feet in length, perfectly straight, and rather thicker than a man's thumb.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  Unprepared for such a desperate effort, for she had hitherto stood perfectly motionless, Bois-Guilbert had neither time to intercept nor to stop her.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  She was perfectly dim and dazed, looking down in a sort of amazement at the rather tender nape of his neck, feeling his face pressing her thighs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  Mellors took the chair again, looking perfectly unheeding, yet Connie felt he noted everything.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  She understood perfectly well why people had cocktail parties, and jazzed, and Charlestoned till they were ready to drop.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
15  His manner was so perfectly easy and good, she stepped over the threshold into the rather dreary little room.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (165 in 12 pages)
16  He came from a perfectly respectable middle-class family.
17  It's perfectly normal to feel like this.
18  No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectlymoral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
19  There's no need to shout, I can hear perfectly well.
20  His colleagues were perfectly pleasant and friendly but they had their own lives to lead.
21  He should be able to lead a perfectly normal life.
22  What the company has done is perfectly legal.
23  I'm perfectly content just to lie in the sun.
24  I can manage perfectly well on my own, thank you.
25  You know perfectly well what I mean.
26  You know perfectly well I can't be blamed for the failure of that mission.
27  I'm perfectly capable of doing it myself, thank you.
28  It's perfectly normal to be nervous before a performance.
29  He appears a perfectly normal person.
30  He's very particular about the kitchen - everything has to be perfectly clean and in its place.