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Example sentences for "publicly"

Lexicographically close words:
publicize; publicized; publick; publicke; publickly; publico; publics; publict; publicum; publicus
  1. And as for a proper title for the penniless young idiot that publicly advertises himself as worth enough, in himself, for a girl to sacrifice her money to live with him--well, the unabridged does not furnish it.

  2. That order's a-goin' to be proof that you have money when you've swore publicly that you didn't.

  3. If we dare give a party while some revivalist is filling his pockets in town the revivalist jumps on us publicly and holds us up as examples of headlong plungers into fiery ruin.

  4. In order to make a case against me, you'd have to publicly betray a matter I told to you in confidence, and then what would you gain?

  5. He received them apparently unmoved, touched their necks, and when they arose pointed to their seats; and this was all the welcome they publicly received.

  6. He publicly pledged his boy, beforehand, to some great deed, and to a life of valor and honor.

  7. Family quarrels broke out, and were soon publicly known.

  8. Nor generally in the Princes of the Reich, though one would have thought them personally concerned, were it only for danger of a like mistreatment, was there any emotion publicly expressed, or the least hope of help.

  9. In the light of subsequent information and developments, and the information which is publicly available, have you reached any other conclusions as to or any conclusions as to whether or not Lee Oswald was the assassin of the President?

  10. Had you made a statement publicly before?

  11. She preferred for it not to be publicly known, so to speak.

  12. Mr. Vernon Smith: "Considered it most absurd for any Governor General to declare publicly that our Indian empire had reached the limits which nature had assigned to it.

  13. On more than one occasion the regent publicly declared that the confederates had taken unfair advantage of her fears, and that she did not feel herself bound by an engagement which had been extorted from her by threats.

  14. The scourge of famine came; And in this strait 'twas publicly resolved, That each tenth man, on whom the lot might fall Should leave the country.

  15. Both were sentenced to be publicly beheaded, and their heads were to be fixed upon pikes and not taken down without the duke's express command.

  16. Secular and ecclesiastical offices were publicly put up to sale; posts of honor, privileges, and patents were sold to the highest bidder; even justice was made a trade.

  17. We had shortly before concluded a new arrangement with the master of our hotel, and the prince had publicly announced his intention to remain here sometime longer.

  18. He was moved by the abuses of the Roman Church, and he was much too sincere to dissimulate publicly what he confessed privately.

  19. I made no doubt but if the girl were once publicly disgraced, he would be obliged as an officer and a gentleman to resign her.

  20. Count Mansfeld was the first who publicly took it in the council of state at Brussels; his example was followed by the Duke of Arschot, Counts Egmont, Megen, and Barlaimont.

  21. Tranquillity could only be fully restored by publication of an edict, which imposed the penalty of death on all who either publicly or privately should countenance proposals for peace.

  22. From that day forward they publicly announced his death, and went into mourning.

  23. Their deliberaations were to be conducted, if possible, in secrecy, while the object publicly assigned to them should be the introduction of the Tridentine decrees.

  24. The author of these lines has not made himself the advocate of this view, as has sometimes been publicly stated, but on the contrary has opposed it.

  25. To speak publicly the grossest evil of women was not opposed to any idea of gallantry current among the Romans.

  26. It has been presumed that Cicero was badly advised in presuming publicly that the new law was intended against himself, and in taking upon himself the outward signs of a man under affliction.

  27. Some even asserted that it was a settled thing, and would be publicly announced as soon as the proper time of mourning was over.

  28. In return, the old man willingly gave his help in setting up the standard regulator which was to benefit the whole district; and he really contributed some valuable suggestions, which Lenz was very glad publicly to give him credit for.

  29. Early copies of the trio and quintet were sent out, however, and the works were publicly performed from them in December, 1882.

  30. The Food Administrator, as publicly announced by President Wilson at the time, took "no part in the deliberations of the committee" nor "in any way intimated an opinion regarding that price.

  31. An oft-quoted instance of their cruelty is recorded of a bailie named Landenburg, who publicly reproved a peasant for living in a house above his station.

  32. On the expiration of this term he publicly excommunicated them, degraded them from their dignity, and deprived them of their preferments.

  33. The false Olaf was seized, broken on the wheel, and publicly burned at a place between Falsterbo and Skanor, in Sweden, and Margaret continued uninterruptedly her regency.

  34. He had been publicly stigmatized, even by his own parents, as no true son of the royal race of France.

  35. The authorities of New York had not even been able to prevent the artillery of the State from being carried off publicly at midday to be used as instruments of war against Her Majesty's subjects.

  36. The authority of the law was overborne publicly by piratical violence.

  37. Thus at the assizes of 1790, just mentioned, Walter Smith, who was convicted of stealing a game-cock, was sentenced to be imprisoned six months and publicly whipped in Whitehaven.

  38. Foster and Sons' manufactory in Carlisle, was publicly whipped a few days ago, for stealing several of his masters' patterns, and sending them to a manufactory in Glasgow.

  39. Burn mentions in his chapter on Bewcastle a tenant's duty not publicly noted in any other local manor, the people having to pay yearly customary rent, quit rents for improvements, and L2 1s.

  40. In 1785 two couples were publicly rebuked in church for clandestine marriage, and Sir James Graham, on the application of the curate, Mr. Nichol, ordered all his tenants to pay their fees properly.

  41. In London, Radisson was lionized, publicly thanked by the company, presented to the court, and given a present of silver plate.

  42. Her artifice on this occasion succeeded; Antony became enamoured of her, and publicly married her, although his wife the sister of Octavius was living.

  43. A late empress of Russia, as a punishment for some female frailties, ordered a most beautiful young lady of family to be publicly chastised, in a manner which was hardly less indelicate than severe.

  44. But do you think it very good taste for you to figure publicly on the sawdust with an eccentric girl like Marion?

  45. She took it for granted that there must be, for men, an attraction toward women who figured publicly behind the foot-lights, though it appeared very silly to her.

  46. As to publicly answering that correspondent, I would as soon think of bandying words in public with any other prostitute.

  47. To be seen publicly with young Burnit was a step upward, as Mrs. Sharpe saw it, in that forbidding and painful social climb.

  48. Also the informal manner of cooking and eating was not what I had been accustomed to, and the idea of sleeping publicly on the bare ground was repugnant in the extreme.

  49. The day isn't lost so long as he doesn't appear publicly in the creature's train.

  50. To put it quite bluntly, I gave him beans for his loose behaviour the previous evening, in publicly ogling and meeting as an equal one whom one didn't know.

  51. Even so, the tenth Earl of Brinstead had dined publicly with them.

  52. For though Tokimasa simulated ignorance of the liaison and publicly proceeded with his previous engagement to wed Masa to Taira Kanetaka, lieutenant-governor of Izu, he privately connived at her flight and subsequent concealment.

  53. But now the Emperor invited the once hated aliens to his presence, treated them with the utmost courtesy, and publicly greeted them as welcome guests.

  54. The edict had not been publicly promulgated, but it had come into the possession of the Mito feudatory, and by his orders had been enclosed in the family tomb, where it was guarded night and day by a strong troop of samurai.

  55. Of course, this creed was not publicly proclaimed.

  56. In fact, sales or purchases of the junior members of a family by the seniors were not publicly permitted, although such transactions evidently took place.

  57. The best informed belief is that this incident converted Mitsuhide into Nobunaga's bitter enemy, and that the spirit of revenge was fostered by insults to which Nobunaga, always passionate and rough, publicly subjected Mitsuhide.

  58. The mutilated kitten had been restored to its owner, a lady of ample bosom, who, carried beyond judgment by emotion, publicly offered to adopt me on the spot.

  59. This intention she announced publicly to my mother and myself one afternoon soon after our return from Devonshire.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "publicly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aboveboard; abroad; openly; public


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    publicly display; publicly perform