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Example sentences for "vigorously"

Lexicographically close words:
vignetted; vignettes; vigor; vigore; vigorous; vigour; vigourous; vigourously; vigueur; viguier
  1. He was vigorously polishing the cookstove on this Wednesday evening and they were cheerfully talking and joking, when the sound of bootheels on the side porch announced the coming of visitors.

  2. You must be looking for help from me in case of danger," Shigne answered, smiling haughtily; saying which, she motioned to her mates to bend more vigorously to their oars and to start on the race.

  3. Polly was shaking the mat vigorously at the door when Slim said: "I see they buried Poker Bill this mornin'.

  4. One by one the captains or cavaliers of this industry sought more congenial regions, where public inquisition into such purely private concerns as theirs was not so vigorously prosecuted.

  5. There were tears even in the of some of the punchers, although they blinked vigorously to keep them back.

  6. Moreover, the intellect which worked so calmly and vigorously by his side, and which alone of all things near appeared able to rule the coming crisis, began to dominate him, in spite of his sense of injury.

  7. Baird, with Scribner, King, and Starkweather, held their ground, though vigorously attacked.

  8. So vigorously did this officer attack that he forced Polk's advance back for three miles, and created the impression of a general Union advance.

  9. The authorship, too, was vigorously canvassed with intense interest.

  10. Then beat the potatoes vigorously with a large spoon until they are light and fluffy.

  11. The other actors were also vigorously clapped by the toil-hardened hands of these lowly tillers of the soil--whose applause throughout was bestowed, Bellombre declared, judiciously and intelligently.

  12. This manoeuvre sent fluttering a bit of paper that lay near him, and Lord Castlereagh, becoming immediately persuaded that he had a butterfly within easy reach, leaped vigorously in pursuit.

  13. The bulldog regarded his master admiringly over his brawny shoulder, and switched his butt of a tail vigorously back and forth upon the floor.

  14. Reaching the door of the schoolhouse a moment later, the two bloods knocked vigorously and stood on the stone threshold, waiting patiently for a response from the interior.

  15. I 'll sit down," replied the landlady, suiting the action to the words so vigorously that the attic rattled.

  16. The bombardment was continued vigorously for three-quarters of an hour.

  17. The thunders of the Vatican were consequently vigorously made use of, and all the detainers of the property were doomed by the Roman pontiff to everlasting damnation.

  18. In the mean time, however, the pope and the bishops had been vigorously exerting themselves to obtain a transfer of the property to the order of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John.

  19. If he quickens his movement, he must be at once carried vigorously forward with the leg and whip.

  20. It takes force to vigorously rub a piece of ebonite with a flannel cloth, for resistance has to be overcome; that is, work has to be done.

  21. A) Vigorously rub the hot glass with the silk (or flannel), also heated.

  22. A) Vigorously rub E S with F C (folded as in Fig.

  23. For answer Pengelly began to ply his pick vigorously on the floor of the gallery, marking out the portion to be sunk so as to be deeper down in the rock, and where there would be no risk of the sea breaking in.

  24. And we must remind ourselves vigorously of the plain truth that this is a lost world.

  25. It is to push forward on broader lines, and more vigorously than ever, the work of bringing all men back to the Father's house.

  26. They could not deny that what it said was true; that is, they could not deny it to their own minds, although they did vigorously deny it publicly.

  27. She simply prevented his amatory instincts from gathering strength vigorously to renew that search which men and women keep up incessantly until they find what they seek.

  28. He fanned himself vigorously with his drooping hat while he talked.

  29. He threw himself face downward to cough up some of the water he had been compelled to swallow, and Munson, running up, began slapping him vigorously upon the back.

  30. He had expressed himself very vigorously on the subject of the Napoleonic oath in France and his books were prohibited in the Cisalpine Republic.

  31. Into this question the Jansenists of France injected themselves so vigorously that even the bibliography for and against the Rites is bewildering in its extent.

  32. One of the Fathers resisted so vigorously when they tried to deprive him of his crucifix that they desisted.

  33. Together they conveyed her below to one of the state-rooms, and, without a moment's loss of time, the most approved methods of resuscitation were vigorously resorted to.

  34. Many writers have vigorously championed as a reform the practice of separate beds for husband and wife.

  35. If a child empties its bottle and sucks vigorously its fingers after the bottle is emptied, it is very evident that the child is not fed enough, and should have its food gradually increased.

  36. There is a heavy roll of thunder--BLORE darts to the table, empties the contents of the packet into the basin, and stirs vigorously with the rolling-pin.

  37. He pounds away vigorously with the rolling-pin.

  38. Again, in Winckelmann und seine Zeit (1805) Goethe vigorously defended the classical ideals of which Winckelmann had been the founder.

  39. Some cubic centimetres of milk were vigorously swallowed, and soon afterward the breast of a nurse was taken.

  40. The tongue still vibrates vigorously with fibrillar contractions when it is at rest, the mouth being open.

  41. During the first weeks the child often cried long and vigorously from discomfort.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vigorously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    badly; effectively; energetically; fervently; fervidly; firmly; fluently; forcefully; graphically; hard; hardly; heartily; impressively; intensely; keenly; kindly; loudly; lustily; mightily; passionately; powerfully; seriously; smoothly; staunchly; strenuously; vigorously; warmly