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Example sentences for "evidently"

Lexicographically close words:
evident; evidente; evidential; evidentially; evidentiary; evil; evildoer; evildoers; evill; evilly
  1. He dashed into the enemy's lines, and was by force drawn away by the Earl of Pembroke, when courage was evidently unavailing.

  2. This is expressed in the statutes of the order promulgated in the reign of Henry the Eighth, and the words are evidently copied from earlier authorities.

  3. Du Cange says, the third order of Chivalry consisted of the Esquires; but he evidently thinks they were the personal attendants of knights, for he calls them infancons or damoiseaux.

  4. He evidently had not seen me yet, nor scented me.

  5. The Bass is a small round hill evidently made by human hands, and supposed to be the burial-place of an ancient Pictish king.

  6. The dog pointed up there, continuing to whine as he did so, and evidently in grief because he couldn't fly.

  7. On again turning round I was horrified to find that Bruin was up, and evidently wondering who or what I was, and what I meant.

  8. He disappears--goes bounding away over the hill, evidently to seek his master, for when we enter the one-roomed hut we find it deserted.

  9. He would perch himself on the top of a tall cypress-tree and call them, turning his head this way and that as he hailed them, evidently not knowing from what direction they would come.

  10. This passage is evidently based upon the account which Kant gives in the Doctrine of Method of the method of geometry.

  11. Kant then proceeds to introduce what he evidently considers the keystone of his system, viz.

  12. That was terrible," said Forsyth, whose uneasiness was evidently increasing with the rising storm.

  13. Evidently each had touched on the other's weak point, so both tacitly agreed to drop the subject.

  14. The writer had evidently been obliged to close it hastily.

  15. They evidently thought this an unaccountably polite Government officer, and were puzzled.

  16. The smith groaned and shook his head, by which answer he evidently meant to assure his friend that he would, most emphatically.

  17. The boat sprang at the word from her position under the cliffs, and was soon out upon the sea in full chase of the smugglers, who bent to their oars more lustily, evidently intending to trust to their speed.

  18. His measures towards the nonconformist party had evidently been resolved upon before he summoned a few of their divines to the famous conference at Hampton Court.

  19. But its tendency was evidently in a contrary direction.

  20. It is evidently his own composition, not Bacon's.

  21. But, though he evidently wavered, he could not be induced to say as much now in order to save his life.

  22. A memorial drawn up by Somerset, evidently at the king's command, and most probably after the clandestine interview reported by Burnet, contains strong charges against Buckingham.

  23. There had evidently been a retrograde tendency towards absolute monarchy between the reigns of Henry VI.

  24. In short, they evidently fancied themselves to have gained a full assurance of toleration; nor could the match have been effected on any other terms.

  25. This serious innovation had evidently been prompted by the spirit of rapacity, which probably some honest juries had shown courage enough to withstand.

  26. It may be remarked on this as on other occasions, that Udal's trial is evidently published by himself; and a defendant, especially in a political proceeding, is apt to give a partial colour to his own case.

  27. Here I had evidently fallen upon my legs, for not only was the family a most agreeable one, but their hospitality was of the most generous kind.

  28. He was much surprised at observing a little odd-looking man surveying him most attentively, and watching his every movement; stopping whenever he stopped, and evidently taking a deep interest in all he did.

  29. The people in the streets appeared sulky and stupefied: here and there I noticed groups of the higher classes evidently discussing the events of the moment.

  30. Talbot came away quite crest-fallen, and evidently with little hope of any immediate relief.

  31. He was following Fritz as straight as he could go, and evidently enraged at the dog.

  32. It was evidently not equal to the holding of three persons--to say nothing of a large dog--for it is hardly necessary to say that Fritz was not going to be left behind.

  33. After a time it desisted from this manoeuvre, and looked around-- evidently with a puzzled air, and wondering what had become of the man.

  34. Karl, on the other hand, seemed less disposed to view things despairingly; and as he sate, was evidently engaged in active thought.

  35. Nor was there; for on reaching the ground after its rebound, the animal lay with limbs loose and limp, and without sign of motion--evidently a carcass.

  36. Why the bearcoot was thus retaining the ibex in his clutch was not quite so clear: for the animal was evidently dead; and apparently had been so long before reaching the earth.

  37. The dog had evidently been attacked by some animal that had put him to flight; and his masters knew that it must be a formidable creature that was causing the variant Fritz to behave in such an ignominious manner.

  38. The quadruped was evidently smitten with some sudden fear; but who and what was the enemy it dreaded?

  39. Moreover, the effort which Karl was making to look hopeful and cheerful was evidently constrained; and only the more convinced his companions that neither hope nor joy was in his breast.

  40. Tested, even in this inexact fashion, it was evidently much lighter than before; and, by the gratified look with which the philosopher regarded it, he appeared to be much better satisfied with its weight.

  41. Both existed on the continent down to quite recent times and the Bison is still found in Poland, but later writers also have evidently confounded them.

  42. The trees in both f and h were not trees that had grown on the spot and had been blown down, but were broken, water-worn, and evidently transported.

  43. Pliny[4] evidently refers to peat as used in Friesland but not as a thing with which he was familiar.

  44. Caesar, who was not a big game hunter and probably never saw either, has given under the name Urus a description which evidently mixes up the characters of both.

  45. Ralph, who could hardly control his impatience, stood watching the rapid fingers of the operator as they traced out a message which was evidently of deep moment.

  46. Just then who should come springing down the stairs but Baker, who had evidently been calming and soothing his lady-love aloft.

  47. They gave the Chinaman their cards, which he curiously inspected and was evidently at a loss what to do with, and after telling him to give them to the ladies when they came home they drove over to the Crocker Ranch.

  48. The men had evidently only boarded the boat to search for the boy, for they landed again before the steamer started, and Toby had the satisfaction of seeing their backs as they walked away from the pier.

  49. Here is a letter from another correspondent whose affairs are evidently in confusion: All children who have written or sent boxes to me, and have received no answer, will please write again.

  50. The owl replied softly, telling her errand, praising the bravery of the frog, and evidently pleasing the kingfisher with the news of the death of his enemy the night-hawk.

  51. Tubby, evidently tickled over the attention shown them.

  52. Tubby ventured to say, evidently greatly thrilled by the spectacle that could never have been dreamed of a few generations back.

  53. He was evidently puzzled to know how much of Rob's strange story to believe; for it seemed remarkable that three boys should take such a dangerous mission upon their shoulders.

  54. Evidently the old woman must have understood what he meant, though she looked a bit "peeved," as Tubby afterward expressed it, at being asked to do a retail business.

  55. Tubby, evidently delighted, for, of course, he foolishly thought it must be the little town they were heading for that Rob meant.

  56. Evidently he had no fear concerning the quality of the water.

  57. Watching, they saw him get down and crawl the last yard or so; and then evidently he found a way to level his glasses in the quarter under suspicion.

  58. He realized the desperate condition in which his boldness had placed him and was evidently determined, if convicted of being a spy, to die game.

  59. Evidently this slovenly old rascal understood the art of good living.

  60. She was evidently of more importance to them than she had been before, and they refrained from offending her.

  61. The only attempt at decoration were garlands cut out of green glazed paper, which were evidently ambitious of being taken for vines.

  62. She was scarcely given time to bestow on them a kindly smile and nod, and even this was evidently not approved.

  63. He is evidently still very proper," Lilly thought, with a sense of her own unworthiness and impropriety.

  64. Lilly had a distaste for strolling about alone, and her only escort, Herr Dehnicke, evidently did not care to be seen too often with her in the streets.

  65. He jumped from his seat, evidently annoyed at his mistake, and ejaculated an irritable "Bah!

  66. Already he evidently pictured her beautiful corpse being dragged out of the water and laid out.

  67. Evidently he had not even heard the door slam.

  68. When they reached the Austrian frontier and the custom-house officials entered the carriage, he said a few foreign words in a low tone, which the officials evidently understood, for they turned away from him with low bows.

  69. He had not mentioned the young reprobate's presence on the estate before, evidently because he didn't think him worth it.

  70. Evidently his one desire was to forget what had passed as speedily as possible.

  71. The man had evidently heard all that he wanted to hear, for he started his team, smiling and nodding his head as if to say that Jack would learn more about distances on the prairie before he had been there long.

  72. Well, that puts a different look on the matter," remarked Tony, evidently much relieved.

  73. No, I don't suppose it did," said Claus, who was evidently thinking about something else.

  74. Mr. Fay had evidently answered such questions before, for all he said in reply was, "How far do you think it is?

  75. The revolver having been disposed of, Jake then turned his attention to feeling in all Claus's pockets, but he found nothing more there--Claus had evidently given them the last cent he had.

  76. He had evidently got all ready for a spring, and when the first two bullets struck him he made it, jumping over them and landing in the pit beyond.

  77. He had evidently determined upon something, for he ate a very scanty supper, changed his clothes, and hurried out again.

  78. He evidently was not thinking about them at all, but about some point of law that had just occurred to him.

  79. What seemed also strange was that the waiter, while yet receiving and executing his orders, was evidently pretending to ignore his presence.

  80. In that case I had evidently a little game of my own, and was as evidently desirous to keep it dark.

  81. He wore an incipient full beard, evidently in process of training, with a considerable amount of grizzle in it.

  82. Not a living soul, sir;” and he looked hard at me, still evidently expecting something more.

  83. She evidently mistook the nature of my visible emotion.

  84. These marks were traced here and there till they led to the verge of the precipice, where a struggle had evidently taken place, and masses of snow had been dislodged and fallen into the ravine.

  85. She tried to laugh and to appear merry, poor child; but there was evidently something on her mind.

  86. There was a little laughter, almost hysterical on the part of Mary, whose voice evidently quivered with trepidation.

  87. A little effort removed the square of carved oak, and underneath they found a casket, evidently of old workmanship, richly wrought in silver, much tarnished but quite intact.

  88. She had not told me before evidently because she had feared for me too, in a quarrel with this man.

  89. In the next scene which came before me, the wicked woman’s son was evidently making love to the girl.

  90. The letter was evidently intended to fall into our hands.

  91. He complained of a sore throat, and had evidently taken cold the day before.

  92. Gates, in his letter to Washington, asked his opinion and advice; evidently as a matter of form.

  93. It was evidently the idea of the cabal that Gates was henceforth to be the master-spirit of the war.

  94. He was evidently moved by this demonstration of public affection.

  95. It was evidently their design to outflank the American camp, and get in the rear of it.

  96. Lee evidently considered Washington's star in the decline, and his own in the ascendant.

  97. One of the lieutenants speaks of him in a sarcastic vein, and evidently with some degree of prejudice.

  98. Howe detached none of his force on lateral expeditions, evidently meditating a general engagement.

  99. The opinion, however, evidently inclined in favor of Washington.

  100. Whatever might have been the original designs of the savage, he was evidently glad to get off.

  101. It is no wonder that thoroughly well-informed and experienced writers, who have lived long and travelled far in the country and who are evidently quite to be trusted, should yet write so differently.

  102. They are evidently most eager to learn, and are turned out from all the universities of Europe and from their own, extremely well equipped and prepared for professional work.

  103. If wine unlooses the tongue, and brings out what is usually hidden away beneath the surface, it evidently brings out nothing very evil from the inner life of the Russian peasant.

  104. It was quite in keeping with his whole bearing and conversation throughout, for he is evidently one of the most humble and unassuming of men.

  105. The dying man, evidently mistaking the rabbi for a priest of his own faith, begged him to hold the crucifix before his eyes and to give him his blessing.

  106. All the carts were small, carefully covered over, and evidently had small loads, though requiring powerful creatures to draw them; and then all at once I understood.

  107. They were pursued as far as the Mississippi, which they had evidently crossed in leaving the country.

  108. The Indians, having evidently lost their leader, sullenly retired out of range and Captain Snyder held his advanced position.

  109. Private Browning was evidently a fair weather soldier and not at all disposed to accept camp life in a soldier-like way, like his superior, Major Buckmaster.

  110. They put on their straw hats for the march, and Pixy, who evidently thought that they were going home, sprang up in delight, and was so full of frolic that Fritz could scarcely fasten the cord to his collar.

  111. Your father is evidently a kind and sensible man.

  112. The matter in brackets in these proceedings is evidently notes made by Muñoz, although they may have been made by the Castilian secretary.

  113. The matter in brackets is evidently by Navarrete.

  114. Baldo is evidently one of the two brothers Pietro and Angelo Baldo de Ubaldis, both eminent Italian jurisconsults.

  115. That side which faces you is evidently older than the left: indeed I have no hesitation in assigning it to the end of the XVth century.

  116. Leaving some neat houses to the right and left, we drove to a snug auberge, evidently a portion of some of the outer buildings, or of the chapter-house, attached to the Abbey.

  117. In front, were evidently the ruins of a large chapel or church--perhaps of the XIVth century.

  118. The costume of the oil-painting is evidently that of the period of our Henry VIII.

  119. Evidently the train was going into camp under the shoulders of the Caribou Ridges.

  120. Gaspard has evidently wandered from Oxford House and lost his way.

  121. However, it was evidently a very uncomfortable state of things for a Christian bishop, who might seem to be responsible for all the consequences, yet was without control over them.

  122. Thus the municipal cities in the provinces refused to unite together in a later age for the defence of the Empire, then evidently on the way to dissolution.

  123. Now there are evidently elements in the Mahometan creed, which would tend to change them from the one temperament to the other.

  124. But just then Bob and the nurse came down with the infant, who, though evidently awed by the number of creatures he saw about him, behaved like a gentleman, and not in the least like an adopted child.

  125. It was marvellous how they had developed in a short time under Pen's system, which was evidently sound, as Bradstock declared.

  126. She looked at him, and evidently expected him to ask her to go into the garden, but he remained silent.

  127. Her voice quivered and broke; she was evidently trying to restrain her tears, but she suddenly broke into sobs.

  128. Evidently it was the watchman striking the hour.

  129. After that Zinaida Fyodorovna never applied to her for anything, and evidently tried to dispense with her services.

  130. They maintained that there was not and never had been such a thing as moral purity, and that evidently it was unnecessary; mankind had so far done very well without it.

  131. He had evidently been reading before I came in.

  132. She glanced at him and turned pale, then glanced again with horror, unable to believe her eyes, and tightly gripped the fan and the lorgnette in her hands, evidently struggling with herself not to faint.

  133. He did not notice me, and my menial opinion did not interest him; he was evidently perturbed and embarrassed before himself, before his inner eye.

  134. As a rule he did not notice my presence, and when he talked to me there was no expression of irony on his face--he evidently did not look upon me as a human being.

  135. Orlov was evidently afraid I should begin talking of the child again, and to turn my attention in another direction, said: "You have probably forgotten your letter by now.

  136. I believe if he had had to deceive his minister or any other influential person he would have put a great deal of skill and energy into doing so; but to deceive a woman, the first idea that occurred to him was evidently good enough.

  137. He expected to meet some one, but evidently the war had driven away all who used the path, and he continued in a welcome silence and desolation.

  138. Evidently Skelly's men had settled down to a long siege, and Harry rejoiced in the amount of time they gave him.

  139. A heavy force, evidently from Patterson's army operating in the hills and mountains, was marching down the valley to join those who had been driven from the fort.

  140. Evidently they were used to serving countrymen.

  141. His cousin's emotions were evidently much like his own.

  142. The belt of forest into which he had ridden, ran along the crest of a hill, where the soil evidently had been considered too thin for profitable cultivation.

  143. More news had come from Charleston and evidently it was to their liking.

  144. Evidently the men understood their work, as it was being done rapidly and without much noise.

  145. Looking back they dimly saw the horsemen, riding at random, evidently at a loss.

  146. The rear files of the horsemen, evidently intending to go to the other side of the camp, rode through the low bushes.

  147. The thin lips were pressed together more tightly than ever, and the somber eyes looked out over the city, but evidently saw nothing there.


  148. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evidently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apparently; clearly; conspicuously; definitely; distinctly; evidently; expressly; face; manifestly; markedly; notably; noticeably; obviously; official; ostensibly; outwardly; patently; perceptibly; plainly; prominently; seemingly; visibly