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Example sentences for "doubly"

Lexicographically close words:
doublets; doubling; doublings; doubloon; doubloons; doubt; doubte; doubted; doubter; doubters
  1. It was impossible to pass round the promontory on horseback in the best of weathers; now doubly so.

  2. It is right that it should be so, as a rule; in her case it was doubly right.

  3. She had always been loved by them all; how much more deeply was she loved now, when her bitter troubles had made her doubly sacred!

  4. That sympathy was always ready, and, as he returned it, an affection sprung up between the old painter and the young caligrapher that was doubly characteristic of the time.

  5. Then get past the point at your finest speed, and it is doubly well you shall be paid for this night's work.

  6. You have been paid, but I will pay you doubly if you stick by me to the end.

  7. Beauty for ashes" is a gift indeed, And slaves, by truth enlarged, are doubly freed.

  8. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long; The management of tiros of eighteen Is difficult, their punishment obscene.

  9. Violation of temperance is also opposed to natural law, and doubly so when it leads to such evils as quarrels, fights, murders, blasphemies, etc.

  10. Often, however, he goes now to one of the friends, now to another, speaking in different senses to each, to make his work doubly effective.

  11. It is commonly admitted that the listener in question sins doubly against charity, and grievously if the defamation is seriously harmful; for he sins against the detractor by refusing to give a brotherly correction (see 1258 sqq.

  12. He was at the zenith of his political influence; so that his intense miso-Theban sentiment made Sparta, now becoming aggressive on all sides, doubly aggressive against Thebes.

  13. Moreover, Alketas himself was the dependent of Jason, whose goodwill was therefore doubly necessary (Xen.

  14. Ariobarzanes made over to him Sestus and Krithôtê in that peninsula; possessions doubly precious, as they secured to the Athenians a partial mastery of the passage of the Hellespont; with a large circumjacent territory for occupation.

  15. With respect to manning of them from the money proposed to be appropriated, that was impossible, and he saw no reason for making the business doubly sure by any other precaution.

  16. It was but a futile hope, however; and one, too, that was doubly disappointing.

  17. This is doubly dangerous in desert country where heat and the need to search out water pose crucial problems for all plants.

  18. A walk along this trail is doubly interesting because it shows greenbelt and shrub desert side by side, the two habitats often separated by less than a vertical or horizontal meter.

  19. All that I lately gathered on the way Made my conjecture doubly sure; and now Thy garb and that marred visage prove to me That thou art he.

  20. But O my heart is desolate Musing on our striken State, Doubly fall'n should discord grow Twixt you twain, to crown our woe.

  21. Tim, doubly angry because the charge she made struck deep.

  22. If Tim was indeed planning to profit doubly by him during that year, Joan could have no knowledge of his scheme, he was sure.

  23. The moonlight revealed his dusty features clearly, but Mackenzie brought the lantern to make it doubly sure.

  24. He's been doubly sore at us ever since I turned him down.

  25. The French line gave way, and falling back on the Wuthende-Niesse, now doubly raging from torrents of rain, and upon the Katzbach, they lost a great number of men.

  26. He may therefore have considered himself, not only as doubly bound to secure what remained of the authority of his predecessors, but even at liberty, should opportunity offer, to reclaim some part of that which he had unwillingly yielded up.

  27. This gratuitous outrage committed against Sweden is deeply felt by the people, and doubly so, Sire, by me, who am intrusted with the honour of defending them.

  28. O, doubly are ye bound to praise The great Creator in your lays; He giveth you your plumes of down, Your crimson hoods, your cloaks of brown.

  29. You, who are always welcome here among us, Are doubly welcome now.

  30. Till, to his horror, he found the Imperial moles, by way of keeping assurance doubly sure, had been under the foundations of his very house for long years past, and had all but brought it down about him in the most hideous manner!

  31. If he speaks with a foreign accent, he is doubly deserving of suspicion.

  32. No more thy friendship soothes to rest This wearied spirit, tempest-tossed: The cares that weigh upon my breast Are doubly felt since thou art lost.

  33. Besides, the discipline of character, these trials made the pleasant things with which they were mixed up seem doubly pleasant — the disagreeable parts of her life relished the agreeable wonderfully.

  34. Some made their assaults both with love and money, and they seldom failed, for they came doubly armed; and your Spanish pistols are a sort of battery hardly to be resisted.

  35. And doubly blest be all the Powers of Love, That give me this dear Opportunity.

  36. I am doubly wounded, first with her harmonious Eyes, Who've fir'd my Heart to that Degree, No Chimney ever burnt like me.

  37. Look on this Face, if thou dar'st look on him Whom thou hast doubly wrong'd--and draw thy Sword.

  38. This work is seldom entirely free from hazard; and on this particular occasion, when the force in men was a little disproportioned to the weight of the timber, it was doubly incumbent on every man to be true and steady.

  39. Whoever remains, after this notice, will be a trespasser, and the evil done by a trespasser is doubly serious in the eyes of the law.

  40. This circumstance, which would render escape doubly difficult, was, notwithstanding, greatly in favor of reconnoitring.

  41. As the lips contracted with the convulsive twitchings of death, they gave to his grim visage a species of sardonic grin that rendered it doubly terrific.

  42. Separations in families are always painful, Major Littlepage; when accompanied by discussions, doubly so.

  43. I felt a throb at the heart, as I heard the fall of the first clods on the coffin of Chainbearer; but reflection brought its calm, and from the moment Dus became, as it might be, doubly dear to me.

  44. The very fact that he was connected with the "Injins," as turned out to be the case, added to his natural propensities the consciousness of guilt, and rendered him doubly dangerous.

  45. After the long weeks of the summer holidays it was doubly difficult to apply their minds to lessons, and set to work in the evenings to perform the enormous amount of preparation demanded from them.

  46. After the interval of the holidays, the yoke of homework seemed doubly heavy, and undoubtedly the prep.

  47. Doubly desolate it looked in the rays of that bright October moon.

  48. Now that Lucy Purcell was at the other end of England, both her service to him and his own curmudgeon behaviour to her loomed doubly large.

  49. And it had made her doubly sensitive with regard to Lucy, whom she had herself brought over from the Baptist communion to the Church, and Sandy, who was her godchild.

  50. She could talk of nothing but her picture, and he, feeling himself doubly necessary and delightful to her, overflowed with happiness and praise.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doubly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.