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How to use brightly in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Brightly means in a bright manner. Example: “The sun was shining brightly, making me squint.”

Examples of brightly by meaning

adverbIn a bright manner.

  • The sun was shining brightly, making me squint.
  • The visitors started brightly and had an early chance when Valencia's experienced captain David Albeda gifted the ball to Fernando Torres, but the striker was caught by defender Adil Rami as he threatened to shoot.2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport
  • She looked brightly at Grandmamma, who nodded and said, 'Yes, it's yours now.'1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 106

More sentences with brightly

  • Lisa Beading is run by Lisa Walker, with a creation focus on brightly coloured earrings.2023 September 11, “Artisan market at Come Toward the Fire festival spotlights Indigenous-owned businesses, September 16”, in Stir. From the entry x̄á'islak̓ala
  • That same afternoon, a brightly colored male bumblebird arrived with a gouge in his back.2020, Charlotte Llewelyn-Wells, David Guymer, Robbie MacNiven, KeyForge: Tales From the Crucible: A KeyForge Anthology, page 193. From the entry bumblebird
  • Like brightly striped caterpillars and spiders, the flamboyant cuttlefish is warning potential predators of its toxic nature.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry flamboyant cuttlefish
  • “I told you she'd remember us.” Trudiode said brightly to Erica.2015, Rachel Redhead, Curse Breaker Origins. From the entry remembersome
  • Outside, the moon shined brightly on the snow and the world existed only in shades of blue.2015, Terri-Lynne DeFino, Seeking Carolina (A Bitterly Suite Romance), New York, N.Y.: Lyrical Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN…. From the entry snow castle
  • The back door leads to a poky kitchen, tiled brightly in the taste of a previous tenant.2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry poky
  • If the moon shines brightly enough, it can create a moonbow, too!2011, Colleen Ryckert Cook, Kentucky: Past and Present, page 9. From the entry moonbow
  • Stands out brightly above other thrillers for originality, ingenuity, local color and unputdownableness.2009, David Downie, quoting Barbara Bray, Paris City of Night: A Novel of Suspense, Skokie, Ill.: MEP, →ISBN, praise page. From the entry unputdownableness
  • Smooth, shiny, brightly colored shells, marginellas are usually found in tropical and warm water.2006, Jackie Leatherbury Douglass, Shells. From the entry marginella
  • They were cavernous and brightly lit and the facades lining them were pompous and hueful.2004, Sphyrex of Shobol, Vagabond: Psalms of the Dreamers: Abridged(earth Edition) - Page 4. From the entry hueful
  • "They always order ventis," a cashier said brightly, "and are great tippers."2002 July 14, Judith Matloff, “Whose Neighborhood?”, in The New York Times, page 3. From the entry venti
  • The older women wear their dresses conservatively long and still cling to the brightly- coloured "kopdoek" (headcloth).Willem Steenkamp (1975), Land of the Thirst King, H. Timmins, →ISBN. From the entry kopdoek
  • Men from young to middleaged, with matt faces, vivacious and brightly dressed, catted together in gay groups.1932, Hugh Brooke, Man Made Angry, page 134. From the entry cat
  • There is a sweet, direct, Kindergarten appeal to "BFDI," seeing as the characters are mostly brightly colored household items.2025 October 23, Witney Seibold, “What Are Object Shows And Why Is Gen-Alpha Obsessed With Them?”, in /Film, Fishers, Ind.: Static Media…. From the entry BFDI
  • Government-approved bhang shops thrive next to sweet shops flaunting rows of local desserts inside brightly lit, glass-panelled counters.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 13. From the entry bhang
  • But deep inside there was a Hans Gruber, who burned pure and brightly for profit and profit alone.2022 October 1, cylonlover, “LPT: Always remember, inside every Snape is a Hans Gruber, who's scrupulous and really just in it for the…. From the entry Hans Gruber
  • A group of Abyssinians are astride horses in brightly colored saddles at the top of the hill across the valley.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 308. From the entry Abyssinian
  • She held up in one grey paw part of a brightly painted face with red cheeks and a red nose.2011, Merv Lambert, Parapenguins: And Other Videoville Animal Stories, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN. From the entry gnomicide
  • “Daddy, kwee have pancakes?” Rachel asked, a little too brightly.2011, Audrey Vernick, Water Balloon, page 43. From the entry kwee
  • “’Kthnxbye!” Angel said brightly, opening the door for them.2010, James Patterson, Fang, Young Arrow, →ISBN, page 204. From the entry kthnxbye
  • We need to stay in church with the fellowship of others in order to keep the fire of faith burning brightly.2007, John R. Dodd, Bucky and Friends, page 117. From the entry church
  • And brightly dressed mamgus sipping from a flask of whisky, lightly laced with tea for the bronchi cough.2007, Aneurin Gareth Thomas, Luggage from Elsewhere, page 203. From the entry mamgu
  • They are brightly colored and do not fade.2003 November, Priti Ramamurthy, “Material Consumers, Fabricating Aubjects: Perplexity, Global Connectivity Discourses, and Transnational…. From the entry poonam
  • I sat there on a bench in dappled shade, beside an aviary full of brightly feathered finches and siskins fluttering about.2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 2. From the entry siskin
  • Got to be a good sign though, so Click rigged out a cheeser of his own and said brightly, "Mornin', Mr.1994, Tom Kakonis, Shadow Counter. From the entry cheeser
  • Several species of squaloids have light-emitting organs, but none can glow as brightly as the monotypical Isistius brasiliensis.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry squaloid
  • It is the hour when stars and women brightliest beam.1906, Victor Hugo, translated by John Payne, “Night-Walk”, in Flowers of France: The Romantic Period: Hugo to Leconte de Lisle…. From the entry brightliest
  • The galley fire was lighted; coffee was boiled; the sun shone brightly, and the ship astern was coming up fast.1901, W. Clark Russell, The Ship's Adventure, Westminster: Archibald Constable, page 304. From the entry astern
  • That story is replicated wherever there is a brightly decorated house and a neighbour who cares about the tone of the street.2017 December 11, Michael Hann, “C7 bulbs or C9s? How Christmas lights became a nerdy obsession”, in The Guardian. From the entry tone
  • Some gorgonians, living in shallow, sunlit waters, tend to be brightly coloured – gold, purple, red – and flex softly in the currents.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 134. From the entry gorgonian
  • Bolliger brightly came to the rescue.2012, Morley Torgov, The Mastersinger from Minsk. From the entry spätzli
  • Already a Med Tech had taken away the corpse and they were left inside a brightly lighted abstract painting whose medium was blood.2012, Gaylord Dold, chapter 3, in The Swarming Stage, Premier Digital Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry graverob
  • Hope may not, currently, shine brightly.2011, Y. Varoufakis, J. Halevi, N. Theocarakis, Modern Political Economics: Making Sense of the Post-2008 World, Routledge. From the entry trapezocracy
  • And now thousands of funny people with brightly coloured outdoor clothing and maps in plastic mapholders follow in their footsteps, ticking them off.2009 September 21, Sam Wollaston, “Merlin and Trinity”, in Guardian. From the entry mapholders
  • He had seen the boothmen and horse dealers at fairs playing brightly colored cards, and gentlemen at Shea's with their cards, cigars, and brandies.2007, Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams, page 186. From the entry boothman
  • Fladries, brightly coloured flags sewn on ropes (Fladry: Table 4.3), have been used for hunting wolves (Canis lupus) in Europe for centuries.2005, People and Wildlife: Conflict Or Co-existence?, by Rosie Woodroffe, Simon J. Thirgood, Alan Rabinowitz; page 62. From the entry fladry
  • The ABC broadcast also began to use Chyrons, which "generated brightly colored maps, charts, graphs, and illustrations and imposed text over pictures.2004, James T. Hamilton, All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton…. From the entry chyron

Meaning of brightly

  1. adverb In a bright manner.

Full definition of brightly

Questions about brightly in a sentence

How do you use brightly in a sentence?
Brightly is used as an adverb. For example: “The sun was shining brightly, making me squint.”
What is a short sentence with brightly?
“Bolliger brightly came to the rescue.”
What does brightly mean?
Brightly means in a bright manner.

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