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How to use bravely in a sentence

21 example sentences · adverb

Bravely means in a brave manner. Example: “The soldiers faced the enemy bravely.”

Examples of bravely by meaning

adverbIn a brave manner.

  • The soldiers faced the enemy bravely.
  • To meet it, pro-democracy organizations, universities and law firms must bravely speak up against abuses of power while building the broadest possible coalition to stand up for fundamental rights.2025 November 16, Daniel Altschuler, Javier Corrales, “How government repression is born – and how to resist it”, in The Guardian, archived...

More sentences with bravely

  • (As) bravely as they fought, they soon lost the battle.From the entry as
  • They fought bravely to defend their homeland.From the entry homeland
  • One day I witnessed our kitten bravely stalk and kill one of my most amenable, non-threatening houseslippers.1987, Susan Lenzkes, A silver pen for cloudy days, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry houseslipper
  • The music moved bravely up into the realms of complete unspeakability.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 50. From the entry unspeakability
  • For answer the boy's bravely challenging eyes met his blinking vindictively.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry vindictively
  • She smiled bravely and went to wash her hands.1997, Bernard MacLaverty, 'Grace Notes' (novel), (Part 2, at page 262 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition). From the entry unsnib
  • But if there's no rain, "we let it go," she says, bravely adding the unsayable "I don't care how it looks."1991 June 3, John Skow, “Can Lawns Be Justified?”, in Time. From the entry unsayable
  • His head lolled back, his mask had been ripped away, but he was fighting bravely to retain consciousness.1967, Brian W. Aldiss, “The Night That All Time Broke Out”, in Harlan Ellison, editor, Dangerous Visions, New York: Doubleday & Company…. From the entry terranaut
  • He raised dim eyes to her, eyes that seemed already filmed with death's opaque curtains, but bravely, slowly smiled.1907 October, [Hannibal] Hamlin Garland, “Marshall Haney’s Sentence”, in Money Magic: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers…. From the entry down but not out
  • After Pearl Harbor, American sympathy for the Chinese grew even stronger, for the Chinese were a people who had long been bravely resisting Japanese aggressors.2002, Sino-American Relations, volume 28, page 60. From the entry Chinese
  • She bravely guided us through the musical scale and urged us to memorize signature notes and musical terms: staccato, legato, forté, pianissimo.1993, Mary Helen Ponce, Hoyt Street: An Autobiography, page 254. From the entry forté
  • Although the supermarket tannoy was bravely broadcasting Rigoletto, its meat counter was thick with wurst and its wine shelves loaded with Liebfraumilch.1987, Christina Hardyment, “Harlekins and Gondolas”, in Heidi’s Alp: One Family’s Search for Storybook Europe, Book Club edition, New…. From the entry tannoy
  • Nevertheless the French stuck bravely to their guns, while the flame of the cannonade illuminated the scene beneath the canopy of smoke.1970, James Henderson, The Frigates, an account of the lesser warships of the wars from 1793 to 1815, London: Wordsworth, page 73. From the entry stick to one's guns
  • Across the asphalt that was sufficiently semifluid to receive and embalm millions of starsharp stones and bravely gay candywrappers a drugstore twinkled artificial enticement.1964, Brown, Leonard, A Quarto of Modern Literature, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 554. From the entry candywrapper
  • Students plodded bravely on, unmindful of the cold rain water that made a "squdge" in the soaked shoes every time a step was taken.1927, Olde Penn, volume 26, number 4, page 88. From the entry squdge
  • The horse ran bravely, but when he was reined in after five furlongs, the trainer's stopwatch showed his time at 1:03, a full three seconds off his best breezings.2016, John R. O'Donnell, James Rutherford, Trumped!: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump. From the entry breezing
  • All over Panama, signs with that slogan blossomed, often embossed with a ring of five stars, the general’s insignia, and little white doves flapping bravely zenithward.1990, R. M. Koster, Guillermo Sánchez Borbón, chapter 1, in In the Time of the Tyrants: Panama, 1968-1990, New York: Norton, page 42. From the entry zenithward
  • For two hundred of these luckless creatures 'gladiatored' bravely, while an appreciative audience held matting up to its chin to keep from being bespattered with blood.1915, The Atlantic Monthly - Volume 116, page 642. From the entry gladiator
  • "That is, if"—she paused, knew a momentary longing to draw back, and then stuck to her guns bravely—"I can find some one rich enough to make it worth my while."1922, Agatha Christie, chapter 15, in The Secret Adversary. From the entry stick to one's guns

Meaning of bravely

  1. adverb In a brave manner.

Full definition of bravely

Questions about bravely in a sentence

How do you use bravely in a sentence?
Bravely is used as an adverb. For example: “The soldiers faced the enemy bravely.”
What is a short sentence with bravely?
“The soldiers faced the enemy bravely.”
What does bravely mean?
Bravely means in a brave manner.

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