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How to use audibly in a sentence

10 example sentences · adverb

Audibly means in context of possibility of being heard; in an audible manner. Example: “The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.”

Examples of audibly by meaning

adverbIn context of possibility of being heard; in an audible manner.

  • The Argentinian remains a danger to his own team, clumsily conceding the penalty which allowed Gómez to put Wigan ahead, and it was clear that City's audibly frustrated fans do not trust him.2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian

More sentences with audibly

  • The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.From the entry touchdown
  • Chiang, unable to control himself, wept bitterly and audibly, causing all in the assembly to shed tears."1971, Pichon Pei Yung Loh, The early Chiang Kai-shek: A STUDY OF HIS PERSONALITY AND POLITICS, 1887-1924, Columbia University Press, page 1. From the entry Kwangtung
  • Diamond, however, they conceded that Trump in fact had “a nonzero number of people in the room,” leaving Diamond audibly exasperated.2020 November 11, “Trump lawyers suffer embarrassing rebukes from judges over voter fraud claims”, in The Washington Post, archived from…. From the entry nonzero
  • No one is expected to speak, so the grass falls audibly with the sound of a heavy drunken whisper.2003, StoryQuarterly. From the entry kaiser blade
  • The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.2002, Roger Ladd Memmott, Sweet Sally Ann. From the entry tock
  • She sighed audibly when the merprince rescued the young mermaid and whisked her away to his kingdom as his bride, thus ending the story.2005, Tracey V. Bateman, Kansas Home: Hearts Adrift Find a Place to Dwell in Four Romantic Stories, Barbour Publishing Incorporated…. From the entry merprince
  • The bread is shaped like a kaiser roll but crowned with a mantle of seeds and coarse salt so abundant that it crunches audibly when bitten.2007, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, Roadfood Sandwiches. From the entry kaiser roll
  • With Morris such lapses are a rare exception, with Doughty fatally common and disastrous, as when certain gentlemen, audibly cavilling at some project, are said to 'bebark' it.1954, Peter Russell, Nine. From the entry bebark
  • Its light came from thirty feet to the left of it, and the moon itself rose audibly until a stagehand juggled it, whenceafter it ceased to rise.1918–1925, Booth Tarkington [aut.] and Alan Seymour Downer [ed.], On Plays, Playwrights, and Playgoers (1959), page 16. From the entry whenceafter

Meaning of audibly

  1. adverb In context of possibility of being heard; in an audible manner.

Full definition of audibly

Questions about audibly in a sentence

How do you use audibly in a sentence?
Audibly is used as an adverb. For example: “The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.”
What is a short sentence with audibly?
“The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.”
What does audibly mean?
Audibly means in context of possibility of being heard; in an audible manner.

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