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Example sentences for "personally"

Lexicographically close words:
personal; personalities; personality; personalized; personall; personals; personalty; personam; personarum; personas
  1. That afternoon General Liu Ming-chuan visited the hospital to personally announce that an armistice was likely to be arranged, to thank Dr.

  2. With the consul's permission, Gorman left to personally superintend the work of his ambulance corps, of which he was very proud.

  3. Longfellow quotes a writer for the London Daily News as saying: "There is scarcely a pope or emperor of importance who has not been personally connected with its history.

  4. What part Dominic personally had in these bloody proceedings is litigated history.

  5. He still thinks that I have represented him as personally giving up the Chieftainship.

  6. The British censors liked it as "a tribute to British grit" and arranged for a captain attached to a military mission bound for Washington by plane to deliver the manuscript personally to Bird.

  7. He had personally projected Ramsay's name one night in the hope of breaking the Bassett phalanx, but the only result was to arouse Thatcher's wrath against him.

  8. Mrs. Owen had not only added bedrooms to the rambling old farmhouse to accommodate these visitors, but she had, when necessary, personally arranged with their employers for their vacations.

  9. He had personally led the fight in the Fraser County primaries and had vanquished Bassett!

  10. I'd like to file it personally so I can talk over the prospect of getting an order of sale before the judge goes on his vacation.

  11. And Moses wrought thus through ambition, because, though personally disinterested, he could not endure having his will thwarted.

  12. Your Excellency personally knows Mr. Leverett so well, that we shall say the less of him.

  13. I found afterwards that in the same way she made the most ardent friends wherever she became personally known.

  14. In case a wife be personally injured, either in reputation by slander, or in body by accident, compensation must be recovered in the joint name of herself and her husband, and when recovered it belongs to him.

  15. Personally she is good-looking, of symmetrical figure and modest and ladylike demeanor.

  16. She received the nominal sum of one dollar, and assumed personally the entire indebtedness.

  17. Hiram Corliss he employed a number of men to cut timber, going into the woods in the depths of winter personally to superintend them.

  18. I answered that I did not personally aspire to the presidency, but when the nation decided a woman was most competent for that office, I would be willing she should fill it.

  19. Personally repulsive, she seems to be laboring under feelings of strong hatred towards male men, the effect, we presume, of jealousy and neglect.

  20. He was personally willing to give the advance asked, but the individual directors were not masters of their conduct in all things; they had to abide by the laws of the Society.

  21. I am personally indebted for these names to Dr.

  22. For this fact I am personally indebted to Mrs. W.

  23. Vereker was not surprised, on thinking it over, that he personally had missed the clue.

  24. He was personally one of those young men about whom you may easily produce a false impression if you describe them at all.

  25. To me personally he assumes the language of an enemy.

  26. I have never supposed that you would care personally for me.

  27. And then she told herself that he personally was full of good gifts.

  28. It was through no aim of his mind that this resulted, nor are mankind indebted to him personally for a collateral effect of his existence.

  29. Though they knew quite as little personally of the young baronet by whom they had been sold into bondage to the unpopular clothier--him, with the caprice of ignorance, they chose to prefer.

  30. The attention of the starry bodies can only be regarded as a beautiful myth, but the writer of this paper personally tested the animal love of music some years ago, when surrounded by a formidable herd of wild cattle in the Rocky Mountains.

  31. Personally generous to the limit of extravagance, he never spent a penny of the funds of his company without being convinced that it would be to its benefit.

  32. Those who have known Carl Laeisz personally will appreciate what it meant to Ballin when, by way of giving him an introduction to the London firm of Messrs.

  33. He was also personally acquainted with a great many of those unconventional and often somewhat blunt but always good-natured individuals of humble rank who seem to thrive wherever much shipping is going on.

  34. I personally should highly appreciate an understanding between my company and yours if it could be brought about, so that you could work together hand in hand like two good friends.

  35. I personally consider this also necessary, and it goes without saying that I shall be present as well.

  36. Our entrance at Saltram was, personally to Miss Planta and me, very disagreeable: we followed immediately after the royals and equerries and so many of the neighbouring gentry, the officers, etc.

  37. He, so the report ran, would personally go to protest against the illegal surrender.

  38. We shall confine ourselves to the engagements in which we personally took part, and shall record only the more remarkable among them.

  39. On both occasions the general in command of the column conveyed his thanks either personally or by letter.

  40. Never shall we forget the kindness shown to us personally during the years of strife.

  41. Sally's a valuable asset of this family and I'll hold you personally responsible, Comly, for her safe return.

  42. It's rather odd, as I think of it, that my husband didn't personally try to take the child from me.

  43. The Cardinal was personally a brave man; but he knew his danger, and the memory of the murdered Rossi was fresh in his mind.

  44. As you know, he was not personally acquainted with all the children and grandchildren of his many brothers and sisters.

  45. Personally he did not shrink from search, therefore the jewel was not in his pockets.

  46. Anxious to make such amends as I personally could for my share in the mortification to which she had been subjected, I visited her in the morning, with the intention of offering a suggestion or two in regard to that little bill.

  47. Was he unable to restrain them when he finally became sickened with their butchery and personally interposed to prevent its further continuance?

  48. In this miscellaneous concourse the occupants of the picture frames of all the public and private galleries of Europe seemed to have been restored to life, and personally brought into contact for the first time.

  49. The empress was so pleased with the change that she personally complimented Michael, and made him a present of 24 ducats.

  50. I be to see you again, and to show personally all the esteem that I felt for you in absence, and that I ever shall feel for you.

  51. Yet he liked the company of ladies, especially when they were personally attractive.

  52. And I personally was not surprised when the red blinds stayed down in their turn.


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