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How to use accordingly in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Accordingly means agreeably; correspondingly; suitably. Example: “He was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card.”

Examples of accordingly by meaning

adverbAgreeably; correspondingly; suitably.

  • He was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card.
  • From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 5

adverbIn natural sequence; consequently; so.

  • Our preparations were all finished. Accordingly, we set sail.

More sentences with accordingly

  • You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.From the entry wit
  • The warrior saw a chink in her enemy's armor, and aimed her spear accordingly.From the entry chink
  • As the crop gets bigger, the shank spacing on the cultivator will need to be adjusted accordingly.From the entry cultivator
  • If a swimmer kicks up his heels and splashes the water, the judge will take points off accordingly.From the entry kick up one's heels
  • Accordingly two of the club went out and shortly after returned with a Hissian, a cant word with the soldiers, for a goose.From the entry Hissian
  • Accordingly Sam Daniels was sent for and arrived on the jump.2021, Peter B. Kyne, Cappy Ricks Retires. From the entry on the jump
  • A comprehensive set of key actionables for achieving healthier environments is provided accordingly.2020, “Actionables for a healthy recovery from COVID-19”, in World Health Organization Newsroom. From the entry actionable
  • "We continuously strive to improve our processes and indeed have updated our systems accordingly.2014 May 21, Andrew McGettigan, Shiv Malik, John Domokos, “Private sector and students profit at the college they call 'the ATM'”, in The…. From the entry continuously
  • Accordingly, a loarge amount of research has been focused on rotary-wing and flapping-wing microflyer configurations.2013, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Raul Jose Martin-Palma, Engineered Biomimicry, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry microflyer
  • Accordingly, a hyperplane in the sample space is dual to a subspace in the variable space.2012, Doug Fisher, Hans-J. Lenz, Learning from Data: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics V, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN…. From the entry dual
  • Both Henry Packer and the widow accordingly find themselves in court.2012, Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England (Time Traveller's guide), London: Random House, →ISBN, page 318. From the entry compurgatrix
  • Accordingly, ice is a tipping element that responds abruptly to changes across this tipping point.2011, Paul Wassmann, Arctic Tipping Points, Fundacion BBVA, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry tipping element
  • Sometimes they will categorize tax refunds, especially when they are small, as found money—and spend it accordingly.2010, Gary Belsky, Thomas Gilovich, Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them. From the entry found money
  • Had the power relations been different, the titles would also have been assigned accordingly.2008, Aarnoud van der Deijl, Protest or Propaganda: War in the Old Testament Book of Kings and in Contemporaneous Ancient Near Eastern…. From the entry usurpator
  • This “coming down” is different with each submissive and should be attended to accordingly.2007, Bill Reed, A to Z of BDSM, page 11. From the entry sub drop
  • Since thieves followed no rules, he played the game accordingly, with a slight variation.2006, Matt Braun, Westward of the Law, page 54. From the entry windward of the law
  • Even Prime Minister Robert Menzies swallowed his 'Britishry' and adapted Australia's foreign policy accordingly.2006, Ed Wright, History's Greatest Scandals: Shocking Stories of Powerful People, Millers Point, NSW: Pier 9, →ISBN, page 212. From the entry Britishry
  • Adjectival nouns are simply identical in form to adjectives of a particular gender and decline accordingly.2005, James D. Naughton, Czech: An Essential Grammar, London, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry adjectival noun
  • Accordingly it deals with a continuous adaptation to the comfortabilities of the Roman civilisation.2004, Ingemar Nordgren, “Description of the Known History of the Goths”, in The Well Spring of the Goths: About the Gothic Peoples in the…. From the entry comfortability
  • The amnesiads in my Soapsac were reduced, accordingly, and ascension catalysts instreamed.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN. From the entry instream
  • However, we rule that it is a safek and accordingly the blessing should not be recited.2003, J. H. Henkin, Responsa on Contemporary Jewish Women's Issues, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., →ISBN, page 58. From the entry safek
  • The chatbot categorizes messages on the fly and provides answers to questions accordingly.2000, Handbook on Electronic Commerce, Springer, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry chatbot
  • Accordingly, no one knew who would be poisoned if no preventive measures were taken.2000, Lisa Heinzerling, “The Rights of Statistical People”, in Robin West, editor, Rights (The International Library of Essays in Law &…. From the entry unidentifiedness
  • I've had other employees with piercings and I've dealt with them accordingly.1999 February 21, Mariann T. Woodward, “Staff and Body Piercing”, in alt.childcare (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026. From the entry pierce
  • Accordingly, it represents an underthreshold load in trained persons, and no endocrine response was observed.1986, Hormonal ensemble in exercise. From the entry underthreshold
  • Accordingly, alternative dredge plants were analyzed, including pipeline, hopper, and the conventional sidecast dredge.1979, Lockwoods Folly Inlet: Environmental Impact Statement, page 35. From the entry sidecast
  • Sotheby, to whom I am accordingly indebted for much of its present structure.1977, John Boening, The Reception of classical German literature in England. From the entry newfashion
  • Peking accordingly dropped the issue as suddenly as it had taken it up.1975, Harold C. Hinton, “Japan: Power and Problems”, in Three and A Half Powers: The New Balance in Asia, Indiana University Press, →ISBN…. From the entry reversion
  • Accordingly, games serve admirably as models for the clarification of other, less well-understood, social-psychological phenomena.1974, Thomas S[tephen] Szasz, chapter 12, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 201. From the entry faculty
  • Accordingly, he moved his headquarters from the district seat of Feng-shan to Tainan-fu.1970, Leonard H. D. Gordon, editor, Taiwan : Studies in Chinese Local History, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 38. From the entry Feng-shan
  • A twist is accordingly something especially good, and a big twist is the superlative of excellence.1966, Sidney John Baker, The Australian language. From the entry superlative
  • Accordingly, there is the tendency of the power stroke to overdrift the cessation of the travel signal.1954, Instruments and Control Systems - Volume 27, page 1465. From the entry overdrift
  • I accordingly assumed Hassan to be a myth--a first cousin to the ginn.1919, Sax Rohmer, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper. From the entry ginn
  • Accordingly, he made up his mind to acquire a knowledge of the Hungarian dialects.1918, “Other Sheep Not of This Fold” (chapter XVII), in Pastor Halloft: A Story of Clerical Life, Longmans, Green and Co., page 157. From the entry angariate
  • The first œcumenic council accordingly met at Nicæa, the Emperor’s summer dwelling-place in Bithynia.1905, Emil Reich, Select Documents Illustrating Mediaeval and Modern History, page 130. From the entry œcumenic
  • The atomic weight of krypton would accordingly be 81.62; the mean of former determinations is 81.28.1903 March 26, William Ramsay, “[Societies and Academies. London.] An Attempt to Estimate the Relative Amounts of Krypton and of Xenon in…. From the entry periodic table
  • Manchin is something of a unicorn — the only national Democrat from his ruby-red state — and acts and votes accordingly.2022 July 15, Emily Cochrane, “Manchin Dangles Hopes of a Future Compromise. Democrats Revolt.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry unicorn

Meaning of accordingly

  1. adverb Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably.
  2. adverb In natural sequence; consequently; so.

Full definition of accordingly

Questions about accordingly in a sentence

How do you use accordingly in a sentence?
Accordingly is used as an adverb. For example: “He was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card.”
What is a short sentence with accordingly?
“Our preparations were all finished. Accordingly, we set sail.”
What does accordingly mean?
Accordingly means agreeably; correspondingly; suitably.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accordingly (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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