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Example sentences for "simply"

Lexicographically close words:
simplifies; simplify; simplifying; simpling; simplistic; simul; simulacra; simulacrum; simulate; simulated
  1. The idea of reform which found most favor, the only one which at first had any chance of getting itself realized, was that of giving Congress simply the additional power of regulating commerce.

  2. No doubt much of the opposition was simply factious and partisan, but it had, after all, solid basis in principle.

  3. I will simply saw through your limbs with a saw as sharp as the points of Yama's teeth, for I have no respect for anything.

  4. For that Brahman simply wants to impose on me with a falsehood, but the liar has never seen the golden city.

  5. I adopted this translation of desajna, in deference to the opinion of a good native scholar, but might not the word mean simply "knowing countries?

  6. Nobody questions the propriety of conferring benefits, and my beneficence consists simply in giving security to creatures.

  7. This story is simply the Cullapadumajataka, No.

  8. Do not rely on the love of Sundari simply because she flung herself into a well, for the treacherous schemes of a kuttini are not to be fathomed even by Providence.

  9. The 24th tale in Oesterley's translation is simply a repetition of the 22nd.

  10. It was simply a yielding to overwhelming numbers, and the strangest thing of all is that we were not all captured or killed.

  11. Had his people simply laid this country waste and never revisited it?

  12. Allan was deeply moved by the love and sacrifice so simply worded.

  13. Half an hour was spent in that devious ford, without any apparent progress, for in the dizzy swirl the horses simply seemed treading the water backwards.

  14. The musical part of the performance is beneath contempt, I understand, and the real attraction is the exhibition of these mountebanks of trapezists, which will be simply disgusting to you.

  15. If I have any secret, it is simply this--doing faithfully, with all my might, whatever I undertake.

  16. It's simply this: the--Thing I saw was the condemned soul of that Archibald Armstrong.

  17. Simply because they were not aware of its evil nature, and fancied that Armstrong's (if it were his) profession of forgiveness had been genuine.

  18. In the Soviet Complex, and, for that matter, in Common Europe and other economic competitors of ours, they simply don't believe in planned obsolescence and all its related nonsense.

  19. They simply don't dream up a whole new set of expressions every generation anymore because everybody gets tired of them so soon.

  20. A University degree, therefore, was originally simply a diploma of teaching, which afterwards came to be regarded as a title, when retained by men who had ceased to lecture or teach.

  21. Mary with bloodshed, for sleeping in a tavern, or fighting with the King's foresters, they would simply leave the University altogether and get away scathless.

  22. The little community thus established at Oxford was to live simply and frugally, without murmuring, satisfied with bread and beer, and with one course of flesh or fish a day.

  23. If the sonata is played simply as programme music, however, it benefits by the inclusion of this movement.

  24. He wanted Americans to encourage their own men in Music, Art and Literature and not to respect a third-rate artist simply because he came from a foreign country having traditions of culture.

  25. All the studios have open fireplaces and pleasant verandahs and are furnished simply but always attractively.

  26. Oak had coloured simply at the consciousness of sounding her name.

  27. But since we don't exactly know what he is, why not behave as if he MIGHT be bad, simply for your own safety?

  28. Simply feeling, considering, and caring for what was before his eyes, he was vulnerable only in the present.

  29. He simply threw up his cards and forswore his game for that time and always.

  30. Sanguine by nature, Troy had a power of eluding grief by simply adjourning it.

  31. Gabriel was not angry: he was simply neutral, although her first command had been so haughty.

  32. But as Oak was not only provokingly indifferent to public opinion, but a man who clung persistently to old habits and usages, simply because they were old, there was room for doubt as to his motives.

  33. Simply his nature--I expect so, miss--nothing else in the world.

  34. I expect it is simply his nature to be so reserved.

  35. The tears on his cheeks came rolling down, But he had no breath to swear, So he simply clutched at the tablecloth, And tore at his red, red hair.

  36. So with going down into the water; it means simply going down close by or near to the water, and being baptized in the ordinary way, by sprinkling or pouring.

  37. Have you ever heard of the wonderful effects produced by Elizabeth Fry on the criminals of Newgate, by simply reading to them the parable of the Prodigal Son?

  38. There are men who always fail in whatever they undertake, simply because they are "behind time.

  39. Well, then, let's write and say our aunt from British Columbia is about to arrive here unexpectedly on a visit to us, and that sand and seaweed and prawns and star-fish are simply death to her.

  40. Next day they have been wandering around their houses, trying to free them from the weight of the cinders and stones, helping each other, simply resigned and abandoned to their fate, trying all the means to conquer it.

  41. Men of the people in silent groups, hardly answer our queries; they simply point to a street towards which people, alighting from carriages and autos, direct their steps.

  42. Every day has its morrow and it is this morrow that we sadly and simply have gone to seek there where the ruins of country and villages have been left.

  43. I know all this, and I simply bow to him, as I don't want to make him lose any of his precious time.

  44. Eleanor (it is a mistake as regards philology to write Elinor) is simply an amplification of Ellen by the addition of "or," gold.

  45. Does she simply believe that the good God is, or does she trust Him?

  46. The original nunneries were simply houses where single women could live together in comfort and safety, and were always seminaries of learning and charitable institutions.

  47. Her dress was simply enchanting,--soft and white.

  48. What men call the soul is simply the brain.

  49. But if I do, what thou meanest, put in plain language, is simply that there is no God.

  50. I suppose there is nothing holy in simply being poor, like a villein.

  51. To denote the age we simply clip a claw each year at a certain time.

  52. Did it simply mean menace, or had the brute known him for what he was and tried to warn his master?

  53. Well, thank goodness she had, for he simply took the dinner which was settling down to a slow, sure death and made it come to life.

  54. It was awfully exciting to me for I simply adore Pancha Lopez and Charlie Crowder, who knows her so well, says she hasn't an admirer of any kind.

  55. She was simply to tell Lorry such a letter had come and she had answered it, accepting the invitation.

  56. It is evident that this a very much stronger method of securing the leaves than that in which the twine is simply laid and glued in a straight cut.

  57. It simply has its branches covered with double barbed bristles of great strength which attach themselves to anything brought in contact with them.

  58. It was simply white with the accumulated dust of no one knew how long.

  59. I simply am not going to answer any questions, and your duty has nothing to do with me.

  60. It's simply that--Kafirs are Kafirs," he said dully.

  61. You can't face it alone--you simply can't.

  62. It wouldn't do at all; I simply couldn't think of it.

  63. I shall simply refuse to answer any questions at all.

  64. I 've done simply everything she asked of me, and now she 's like this.

  65. Here 's a feller tells me that the foxes down his way are simply rotten with mange.

  66. It was simply that he disliked to be treated thus loftily by a man he despised.

  67. I don't want you to go away like that; it 's simply that this is too risky.

  68. He simply won't listen to me when I tell him we ought to go Home.

  69. He 's the kind of chap who 's simply born to put into a uniform and astride of a horse; you 'll see what I mean when he comes.

  70. If only she were here instead of me, she 'd be simply thrilled.

  71. Her council will not move a step to help the colony, simply for the reason that they are for the most part Quakers, and hostile to even the thought of war.

  72. It is simply apathy which keeps them at home.

  73. I found my little retreat simply furnished, but neatly, and with some taste.

  74. She did not understand the matter quite so simply as I had done, but saw advances where I only discovered friendship.

  75. But I have never known how to preserve a medium in my attachments, and simply fulfil the duties of society.

  76. When first read, these stories, so simply are they told, may seem somewhat slight and superficial.

  77. The delightful ease with which mediaeval folk turned from magic to religion, or vice versa, shows how simply they accepted what they did not understand.

  78. The craneman, as he tilts or raises the bucket, watches you for directions, and you stand and make gentle motions with one hand, thus easily and simply controlling the flux of the fifteen tons.

  79. Since no man who has worked in an American steel mill, whatever his sympathies or his indifference, can fail to have opinions on these points, I have decided to set down mine, for what they are worth, as simply and informally as I can.

  80. There were always staccato human voices against the mechanical noise, and you distinguished by inflection, whether you heard command, or assent, or warning, or simply the lubrications of profanity.

  81. A badly hooked scrap-hunk may fall and break a neck, or simply tumble and waste everybody's time.


  82. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "simply" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alone; appreciably; barely; but; clearly; commonly; comparatively; decently; definitely; distinctly; easily; effortlessly; entirely; exclusively; expressly; fairly; genuinely; gracefully; honestly; incompletely; just; lightly; merely; mildly; moderately; modestly; naturally; obviously; offhand; only; openly; ordinarily; part; partially; partly; plainly; practically; properly; purely; quietly; readily; relatively; severely; simply; smoothly; solely; somewhat; straight; tastefully; tolerably; totally; visibly; wholly


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    simply because; simply couldn