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Example sentences for "hotly"

Lexicographically close words:
hotheaded; hotheads; hothouse; hothouses; hoti; hotness; hott; hotte; hotter; hottest
  1. Mrs. Montague flushed hotly at the mention of that name.

  2. He colored hotly at her tone; a flash of anger gleamed in his eyes.

  3. I wish to see a detective," said Mona, flushing hotly beneath the man's curious glance.

  4. It had flashed upon him that Lawrence would now learn from his brother the charge that he had so unjustly and hotly made.

  5. Certainly it could not, he thought, be any more close, more hotly contested, than this of the two rival schools.

  6. He continued speaking hotly and rapidly, "stamping the floor with his feet" in his rage, the words rolling from him in a fury.

  7. Sir Philip Mowbray, governor of Stirling, hotly pressed by Bruce, and seeing no hope of succor, had agreed to deliver the town and castle to the Scotch, unless relief reached him before midsummer.

  8. Beaten and broken, they had fled in all directions for safety, hotly pursued by their victorious foes.

  9. Winnington protested hotly that her remark only shewed how little even intimate friends know of each other's messes, and that his were already legion.

  10. The whole dismal little drama unveiled itself, and Winnington was hotly moved by the waste and pity of it.

  11. He began hotly to con the terms of his letter to Lathrop; and then had to pull himself up, remembering unwillingly what he had promised Delia.

  12. But he could not disguise from himself that his lack of frankness must appear most blameworthy to the man to whom in such a talk he had owed frankness above all things, and indeed, as he blushed hotly to think, simulated it.

  13. The cause of the difference between the north and south of Ireland has been hotly debated for a hundred years.

  14. So hotly did they press the Imperialists that they were able to make a lodgment, on some high ground near the rampart, on which stood an old churchyard surrounded by a wall, and whence their fire could sweep the enemy's works.

  15. A column under Bauditzen was attacked and defeated, and Tilly's horsemen pursued them hotly to the bridge leading to the town.

  16. The peasants attempted no resistance, but fled in all directions, hotly pursued by the Swedes, who broke up into small parties and followed the fugitives cross the country cutting down great numbers of them.

  17. The Imperialists, seeing the movement up the steep road to the castle gate, opened fire with their arquebuses, but the defenders of the wall replied so hotly that they were forced to retire out of range.

  18. The Swedish generals, however, pressed hotly upon him, and finally drove him out of Alsace.

  19. The galley in which he sailed was lying yardarm and yardarm alongside of a Turkish galley, with which it was hotly engaged.

  20. They were hotly pursued by the Spaniards.

  21. James Greenfield's face flushed hotly at the younger man's words and then, in the silence that followed, grew pale and stern while his fingers gripped his pencil nervously.

  22. Always there was the wide, hot sky, the glaring flood of light unbroken by shadow masses to relieve the eye and reflected hotly from the sandy floor of the old sea-bed.

  23. The terrific bombardment by British guns during many days had not depressed the Germans' spirit and the advance was hotly contested.

  24. By a hotly pressed counterattack the British drove them out and again occupied the post.

  25. The beauty and luxury of it all continually charmed his senses; the fever of it stirred hotly in his blood.

  26. Her cheeks burned so hotly that she rose to bathe them.

  27. How hotly debated this "cement question" has been may be judged from the fact that, at the time of writing, riots are reported from Kalgoorlie, during which the Premier was hooted and stoned.

  28. Pot-house politicians and gin-palace courtiers, both ladies and gentlemen, discussed it hotly and denounced it sternly, as an infringement on the sacred immemorial rights of British freemen and a blow to the British Constitution.

  29. Johnston, who commanded a section of Breathed's battery in the fight, as saying: "My battery was hotly engaged.

  30. Then, if worst comes to worst," he hotly retorted, "I will go to Mexico and join Maximilian.

  31. As the Bar-20 man was known to be given to moods at times this was accepted as the true explanation and gave promise of hotly contested games for revenge later on.

  32. Mr. Connors hotly and hastily dissented as he led the horses into the building, and straightway the subject was arbitrated with much feeling and snappy eloquence.

  33. The centre and left were now hotly engaged, but held their ground against all the attacks of the enemy, and on the extreme left advanced and drove the French out of the village of Palavia Abaxo, which they had occupied.

  34. These reinforcements did not pause, but making their way over the obstacles pressed on to where a roar of fire in front showed how hotly the advance-guard was engaged.

  35. They knew that an English army had marched from Lugo to Corunna, hotly pursued by the French, but they had heard nothing of what had happened afterwards.

  36. A desperate conflict was going on in front of the village, where every wall was obstinately contested, the regiment being hotly engaged with a French force that was rapidly increasing in strength.

  37. A brigade remained on the left bank to protect the passage, for the enemy's cavalry were already close at hand, and Soult was hotly pressing in pursuit.

  38. But she is my wife, and I have a right to know where she is," said the would-be husband, his anger flaming up hotly at being thus balked in his desires.

  39. His companion flushed hotly at the question, and yet it assured him that he did not really know just what relations his sister had sustained toward him.

  40. In May, 1861, the Queen had issued a proclamation of neutrality, whose justification in international law was hotly debated at the time and was generally denied by Northerners.

  41. But though this transformation of the wrecks of Whiggism began immediately, and while the Kansas-Nebraska Bill was still being hotly debated in Congress, it was not until 1860 that it was completed.

  42. I answered him somewhat hotly that I was no dupe, nor did I believe that Stubbs had erred, and asked whether we could not set on foot a proper inquiry.

  43. The Spaniards hotly pursuing us, I perceived that the Burgomaster's valour was now all melted away, and that he was beset by a shaking fear and trepidation.

  44. Your blood flows hotly and the red cloud sometimes blinds you.

  45. A jealousy of their happiness rose hotly in the young Roman.

  46. Lulu had noted the momentary hesitation, and flushed hotly under it; but the kiss set all right, and she returned it as warmly as it was given.

  47. Ella gave her a keen, inquiring look; and Zoe flushed hotly under it.

  48. At Eton," Peter answered promptly, and then colored up hotly at his brother's reproachful glance.

  49. The cloud of French skirmishers pressed hotly forward, and MacLeod, seeing that the bridge was still blocked, resolved suddenly upon a desperate measure.

  50. In the course of the next five years Marlborough fought three great battles,[3] by which he drove the French out of the Netherlands once for all, and finally beat them on a hotly contested field in northern France.

  51. They were hotly pursued by the English, who, having lost but a single vessel in the fight, might have cut them to pieces, had not Elizabeth's suicidal economy stinted them in body powder and provisions.

  52. The sun is streaming hotly in, the breath of flowers floating faintly in his train.

  53. His pulses are throbbing, and his heart beating hotly with passionate indignation and disappointment.

  54. Sartoris flushes hotly all over his lean earnest face.

  55. But scarcely had he read a third of the document when the discussion began more hotly than ever before.


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