RECENTLY in a Sentence

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Melanie, strangely quick for one so recently in a faint, was rapidly cutting off his blood-soaked shirt with embroidery scissors.

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 Meanings and Examples of RECENTLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
recently
 ad.  in the recent past
Classic Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
1  Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Now that I think of it, 'tis strange you've been recently.'
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  And as for the exotic viands the Irish ate at the siege-- personally I'd as soon eat a nice juicy rat as some of the victuals they've been serving me recently at the hotel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  But if you'd been there much, you'd know there's a mighty rough bunch of Scallawags and Republicans and Carpetbaggers been runnin things recently.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  And the Yankees are very upset because so many uppity darkies have been killed recently.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  Scarlett had a thankful thought that Rhett had spent the last several months abroad and had only recently come back to Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  "Why, of course--" she began and then she remembered the look in Ashley's eyes recently and stopped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
8  One of the hams sitting on the shelf had been recently cooked and only one or two slices had been cut from it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
9  Melanie, strangely quick for one so recently in a faint, was rapidly cutting off his blood-soaked shirt with embroidery scissors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
10  But as for the recently impoverished Atlanta people, they could starve and drop in the streets for all the newly rich Republicans cared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
11  And you know I've been no angel recently.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
12  So much of the keen zest had gone out of life recently.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
13  The message necessarily left large gaps for conjecture; but all that he had recently heard and seen made these but too easy to fill in.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
14  A one-room shanty of boards recently covered with rough stucco.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  The recently built house of Sam Clark, in which was given the party to welcome Carol, was one of the largest in Gopher Prairie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  We have made several additions to the collection recently.
17  She has recently published her fourth book with the Commercial Press.
18  If you compare it to some of the other surveys that have been recently conducted, then it is in the general ballpark.
19  The country has undergone massive changes recently.
20  Callum, recently arrived in Glasgow, is jobless, homeless, friendless, and suffering from culture shock.
21  He recently vacated his post as NHS Personnel Director.
22  The family has grown in size recently.
23  I haven't been feeling myself recently.
24  The film has recently won a shedload of awards.
25  These issues have recently come into sharp focus.
26  The woodwork has recently been given a fresh coat of paint.
27  These recently published figures bode ill/do not bode well for the company's future.
28  The hotel has recently been redesigned and redecorated.
29  Our research has only recently begun to yield important results.
30  Her elder sister's been acting rather funnily just recently.