SAFELY in a Sentence

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For SAFELY, below is one of 337 sentences:
Now she glanced at each house, and felt, when she was safely home, that she had won past a thousand enemies armed with ridicule.

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 Meanings and Examples of SAFELY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
safely
 ad.  in a way that gives protection from danger or risk
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  And mingled with her frenzied desire to be free of Charles and safely back at Tara, an unmarried girl again, ran the knowledge that she had only herself to blame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  When the last sound of carriage wheels had died away and she knew the family was safely out of sight, she slipped quietly into Melanie's room and turned the key in the lock.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  And even if you reached Jonesboro safely, there'd be a five-mile ride over a rough road before you ever reached Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  Somewhere was the world and families who ate and slept safely under their own roofs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  Just as soon as the commissary department was safely on its way, she'd start Pork for Macon and take the chance of having the precious horse picked up by the army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  Pork had been almost worthless since the trip, so proud was he of returning safely with his wagon-load of dress goods, seed, fowls, hams, side meat and meal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  She would cry if she talked about him and she mustn't cry, not until she was safely in the wagon with Will and out in the country where no stranger could see her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  He hastily and secretly decamped, arranging that his resignation would not become public until he was safely in the North.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
9  The truth was that her funds, as usual, were inconveniently low; and to neither Dorset nor his wife could this vulgar embarrassment be safely hinted.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
10  Having made her final effort on Lily's behalf, and landed her safely in Mme.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
11  Now she glanced at each house, and felt, when she was safely home, that she had won past a thousand enemies armed with ridicule.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  The moment she was in their room, with the bellboy safely out of the way, she looked critically at Kennicott.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  Nothing more happened on the passage worthy the mentioning; so, after a fine run, we safely arrived in Nantucket.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
14  Again we swam for it, were dashed against it by the seas, and were at last taken up and safely landed on board.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
15  One morning Ona stayed home, and Jurgis had the man-doctor, according to his whim, and she was safely delivered of a fine baby.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
Example Sentence: (127 in 9 pages)
16  The plane came down safely in spite of the mist.
17  We reveal only as much information as we can safely risk at a given time.
18  The space shuttle Atlantis returned safely to earth today.
19  He presently got safely beyond the reach of capture and punishment.
20  Drinking alcohol can impair your ability to drive safely; if you're going to drink, don't drive.
21  In order to enable the ship to ride safely through the storm, the captain had to jettison much of his cargo.
22  Now that you ensconce their children safely in the private school, the jet-setting parents decide to leave for Europe.
23  Though the odds against their survival seemed insuperable, the Apollo 13 astronauts reached earth safely.
24  From his appearance we may safely conclude that he is a smoker.
25  Bus patroller helps children to get on and off school buses safely.
26  Whether you are a man or woman surfing around and socializing on the web, the choice of doing it safely and securely is yours.
27  It looks like they must crash, this sea of people, but they swerve and swing around each other, like dancers pirouetting, and they all get to the other side safely.
28  He pulled at the rope hanging from above to see if it was safe for the climb.
29  We had almost given up hope of the ship's safe return when she sailed in.
30  In some cities you don't feel safe going out alone at night.